Brown University welcomes over 3,000 new students at 259th Opening Convocation

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Brown University held its 259th annual Opening Convocation Saturday afternoon.

The university welcomed 3,203 new students at Saturday’s event.

Earlier this week, Brown saw 17 of its dorm rooms flooded after the Labor Day rainstorm.

The flooding left 35 students without a place to sleep.

Brown said that the damage from the flooding was mainly to the floors of the dorms.

A spokesman for Brown said earlier this week that the university worked to find a place for those students to stay.