Around noon on Wednesday Oct. 9, students at the University received an email from Chancellor Brian Moynihan ’81 P’14 P’19 and President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 detailing the culmination of the University’s battle against the student divestment movement. As is so often the case with Brown’s unaccountable bureaucracy, what many on campus anticipated as a climactic announcement following the Corporation’s annual meeting was instead abruptly communicated via email. To the surprise and shock of many, the Corporation secretly convened a week early — which has no recorded precedent at Brown — and a majority voted to endorse a University report which recommended against divestment. This vote not only disregards the previously well-established social harm occurring in Palestine but sets a new precedent where divestment from any entity becomes impossible. Contrary to its intended outcome, the Corporation’s decision demonstrates the need for student and community advocacy which will persist so long as the University remains complicit in the unfolding atrocities.