Concerning administrative deficiencies, they largely spring from similar tenets of liberalism and laissez-faire. Security at Brown is a joke; you can get in to any dorm without presenting any ID, and there is no shortage of horror stories concerning cases of violence, sexual harassment, and vandalism in which the administration essentially did little in the way of punishment. Students who expect that, since they pay 40k a year and worked hard throughout high school to get here, Brown will protect them by enforcing the more important rules with greater gravity should steer clear.
Brown is fond of enforcing policies strictly only when it is convenient to them and forgetting about them when they would require more effort. One student I know was given a room which she was evicted from well into the semester because the office of student life had made a clerical error. They had given her a room promised to a transfer student. One might think that, in a closed system, since either would end up with a room either way, they would have just given the other room to the transfer student and not hassled my friend. Instead, they evicted her on a Friday and neglected to give her a place to stay over the weekend. In the meantime, she had gone to several deans in an attempt at appeal and was met with one of the most wildly dissatisfying rounds of buck passing in recent history. One dean looked her in the eyes and said, "Look, you really should go find somebody who cares."
Also, due to the hyper-liberalism of many of the students, in a string of recent crimes, Brown Department of Public Safety (DPS) had its hands tied in a way that became problematic. What happened was that a crime was committed in the area by culprits who matched the description of young, male, and black. DPS officers found two who matched the description in the area and asked them to present ID. Deciding that Brown's rule which states that all students must present ID when asked by any staff member, did not apply to him, one of the students decided to become belligerent and got himself arrested. The next day the campus was a-roar with allegations of police profiling and brutality (the student was so belligerent he had to be physically restrained). Students walked around with bandages over one eye in protest. Several weeks later, however, when two muggings, one of which turned very violent were perpetrated by groups of five people, DPS was seemingly ineffective because they were going to be hassled for enforcing the rules they were hired to.