Brown Sit-in

About 20 Brown students joined striking dining hall and maintenance employees Tuesday afternoon in a sit-in behind the main student dining hall, in an effort to prevent food delivery and garbage collection. The crowd dispersed when police arrived after almost an hour. "Students in a Vise," the Brown student group that coordinated the sit-in, also conducted a candlelight march last week to the home of Acting President Merton Stoltz to present him with a petition calling for binding arbitration in the contract dispute. The petition was signed by over half the student body.

Negotiations between the university and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are at an impasse.