Today's Clips (11/20/17)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

In just over the past year, Braxton Winston has gone from a prominent protester to a popular politician.

In a neighborhood where a third of households pull less than $15,000 a year and 15 percent are unemployed, finding something to eat takes creativity.

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry to teach online basketball classes for MasterClass.com.

IN OTHER NEWS

My classmates practically booked their flights home during the first week of class. I’d never even heard of green bean casserole.

Edward Blum, who has orchestrated more than two dozen lawsuits challenging racial preference laws, is now fighting affirmative action in the Ivies.

Binge drinking. Sexual assault. Segregation. Why do colleges indulge Greek life?

Valparaiso University, a private university in Northwest Indiana, said its board of directors voted to stop enrolling new law school students, as the tough climate for legal education claims another victim.

A mob kept disrupting a speaker I invited to campus. The president calls that a success.

Black Hills State Univ. is introducing an unconventional schedule for students interested in completing a college course in 18 days.

Five current and former students are seeking $55 million in damages in a lawsuit that says they were exposed to toxic mold while living in three dormitories at a South Carolina college.

College presidents often talk about "the good" of Greek life, even when they have to admit to the bad. But it's getting harder to appreciate the good, the author of this piece says.

Outnumbered male college students in Texas are leading to a sharp gender gap in statewide completion rates - and, according to the state's higher education commissioner, a campus cultural problem for men.

Some college administrators are worried that a provision in the new House tax bill would hurt donations to athletic departments.

A Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News investigation found Cheyney, the nation's first HBCU, is wrought with decades-long incompetence and startling mismanagement.

TRADES

Experts say suspending fraternities and sororities, as many colleges have done in recent weeks, does little to address underlying problems of Greek life.

Boston U moves to terminate professor after high-profile investigation into claims that he harassed a former graduate student in Antarctica in 1999.

And back then, the American Historical Association notes in its latest jobs report, many fewer new graduates were competing for those openings.

If the good ship Academic Freedom sinks under the weight of Twitter attacks on controversial profs, we will all drown.

There are real, imminent threats to freedom and social justice. So why are scholars attacking an ally?

They are given a platform for their ideas, even when it is clear that the ideas don’t measure up.

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