Free Tampons for All at Brown University This School Year — Even in the Men’s Room

At midnight the day before fall classes began at Brown University, Viet Nguyen and six other student government representatives crept through campus, looking for bathrooms.  In their hands they held small baskets of feminine hygiene products to stash inside, name-brand tampons and sanitary pads that the next day students would be encouraged to take and use, all free. They hit 30 buildings and an estimated 70 bathrooms — men’s, women’s and gender-neutral — in two hours.