Today's Clips (11/10/17)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The Wildcats posted an overall rate of 98 percent, with 14 teams at 100 percent. The Charlotte 49ers had a rate of 91 percent; four teams are at 100 percent.

When Davidson hits the Belk Arena floor Friday for its season opener against Charleston Southern, it will do so with an unconventional starting lineup.

AP profile picked up by papers across the country

Profile of Etab Hreib

"Chef Curry," new mobile game starring Steph and Ayesha available now.

Flaviu Simihaian '08, CEO and co-founder of iMedicare, explains.

IN OTHER NEWS

The university joins others across the nation accepting students whose studies were interrupted by Hurricane Maria for a tuition-free semester.

College students can lose out on financial aid if they supplement tuition with private donations.

Faculty members were denied visas by the United Arab Emirates, raising concerns about academic freedom at the university’s Middle East outpost.

American universities are using offshore strategies to swell their coffers, skirt taxes and obscure investments that could spark campus protests.

The university’s president said the suspension, which affects all 55 fraternities and sororities, would stay in place until students committed to a “new normal.”

Higher ed howls at the modest cut in subsidies in the House bill.

An art collector is giving Rutgers University a trove of Soviet work valued at $34 million, making it the largest contribution in the school’s history, Rutgers officials announced.

A Republican plan to tax private-college endowments could hit the finances of universities, which are confronting a shift in attitudes toward higher education that have emboldened lawmakers.

In its annual survey of four-year colleges and universities, Moody's Investors Service said private institutions project net tuition revenue — the money earned from students after colleges provide financial aid — will climb about 2.4 percent in fiscal 2018.

TRADES

Knox College pulls the plug on a planned production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan over concerns about race.

Survey suggests students aren’t the only ones who may have difficulty with free expression on campus. It turns out the public -- across party lines -- is conflicted as well.

Tax on wealthy private college endowments is included. Deductions for state and local taxes -- viewed as essential by public higher ed -- would be killed. Some other provisions of House bill opposed by colleges are not included.

Syllabus at Duke barred staffers of campus paper from class on hedge funds.

Students are leading the assault on free speech — and faculty members and administrators are enabling them.

Many students have celebrated the signs, posted at Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, as a blow against rape culture. 

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