In an office on top of College Hill in Providence, R.I. hangs a picture of Ohio Stadium, but nostalgia combines with enthusiasm for a new role.After nearly a month of being on the job, former Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee is adjusting to his position as the top man at Brown University.Gee said the biggest adjustment has been to the difference in the sizes of the student body and campus between OSU and Brown.Brown has an undergraduate population of 5,500 students and only 2,200 graduate students, compared to more than 40,000 students studying at OSU.But Brown’s size doesn’t mean it fits the stereotype of small private colleges, Gee said.”There is a belief that very selective institutions have an arrogance about them, but there is no arrogance here,” he said. “I enjoy the people at Brown just like I did at Ohio State.”Academically, Brown has one of the finest undergraduate programs in the country, possibly the world, and that presents a new challenge, Gee said.The issue at Brown is deciding how to build a respected graduate program to coincide with such a successful undergraduate program, Gee said. OSU presented a different set of challenges in trying to enhance undergraduate education to compliment its graduate program.While at OSU, Gee was an advocate for increasing funding for institutions of higher learning, but fiscal responsibilities are much different and funding for higher education isn’t really an issue at Brown, Gee said. The leaders of private institutions have more authority to make decisions.Kate Wolford, assistant to the president who served Gee in the same capacity at OSU, said one of the most surprising things about Gee’s move to Brown is the welcome the students have given him.”Students come to his office to meet him and talk to him,” she said. “They are surprised he is so approachable.” And if the mail is any indication, it hasn’t taken long for the students to show their affection for the new president.”I have received a lot of dinner invitations from students,” Gee said. “I probably won’t have to cook for a long time.”Gee said he has attended parties at different fraternities, but points out that the fraternities at Brown are much smaller than the ones at OSU.Not recognized for excellence in athletics, school spirit takes an academic frame of mind at Brown, a major difference from OSU, Wolford said. At OSU, people think it is great to be a Buckeye and at Brown, school spirit is being part of a unique academic experience, she said. “When students see the picture of Ohio Stadium on the wall, they can’t believe over 90,000 people attend a football game,” she said. “At Brown, there is a lot of support for the men’s and women’s hockey teams.”When Gee is officially inaugurated in April, he will become part of a tradition unique to only Brown University.Gee will be presented with a tin box that held a parchment copy of the original charter of the university from 1764. The charter was destroyed by the 1938 hurricane that flooded the bank vault housing the document.But the picture of Ohio Stadium hanging in his office serves as evidence that the tradition and spirit he experienced while at OSU won’t be easily replaced.