According to a recent survey of Brown University student publications, it’s unclear precisely what The College Hill Independent, known as ‘The Indy,” thinks it’s independent from.
“When The Indy briefly lost its SAO funding earlier this semester due to a logistics miscommunication, my first thought was, ‘Wait, they receive university funding?’” said Indy reader Lara Saltzmann ‘25, confused about how the Indy is any more independent than any other club at Brown. “I guess I just had assumed because of their name, that they were, you know, independent.”
Sources report that the majority of Brown students had just assumed that the Indy ran on ad sales or alumni funding to make them independent from the University. If the Indy relies on funding from Brown, students wonder, wouldn’t it be deliberately misleading to call yourselves independent?
‘Maybe they’re independent because they have photography in their paper, so, like, they’re independent from conventions? That seems a bit abstract,” continued Saltzmann, brainstorming theories for how the Indy’s name isn’t just lying. “I’m sure Brown doesn’t actually have a say in what they publish, but, like, they also don’t interfere with the routines of my Arial silks club, and we don’t go around calling ourselves The Providence Independent Arial Silks Team.”
According to the student publication survey, a review of the Brown Daily Herald confirmed that maybe they could use some funding from the school.

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