But the mood on campus is not so sunny, not after President Trump gloated about the deal the Brown struck last week to get the administration to unfreeze $510 million in frozen grant money. Already at Brown there are rumblings of discontent that the university chose to appease Trump. “It breaks my heart.”By some measures, Brown’s deal is the envy of the Ivy League. Some worry the Trump administration could weaponize that data against Brown, meddling in Ivy League admissions decisions and changing the campus culture even more. “It’s hard to believe that the Trump administration isn’t just going to ask for more,” Lane said.