Today's Clips (12/8/17)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Former Charlotte mayor and U.S. transportation secretary Anthony Foxx will chair Davidson College’s new Commission and Race and Slavery.

Contrary to what drunk people in the audience watching their first shows sometimes say, stand-up comedy is not easy.

The sentence former officer Michael Slager got, 20 years, is serious. But it also sends an awful message to officers and communities alike, says Issac Bailey.

IN OTHER NEWS

My best friend is not gone; my daughter is. The one I was supposed to train up in the way she should go; “go” is the operative word here.

Georgetown University's Anthony P. Carnevale says it is time to empower the students and parents with the information they need to make better decisions about their education investments.

A college campus in Rhode Island is mourning the loss of its bulldog mascot that collapsed and died during a campus festival.

A Massachusetts college has apologized for canceling a speech by a woman who advocates for allowing guns on college campuses.

The GOP tax bill is the latest example of an anti-intellectualism that’s been brewing for decades.

TRADES

A lecturer at Clemson lives in the same house he lived in as a doctoral candidate. But his thrifty spending habits have put him on track to donate $2 million to create a scholarship fund.

After a student’s death following a fraternity party, and the subsequent suspension of Greek life, Florida State’s president has stopped serving alcohol at functions he hosts and is asking faculty and staff not to serve alcohol at on-campus holiday parties.

The process can make a fool or liar out of anyone.

OPINION: Can ‘risk-share’ financial aid models reverse some ‘alarming data’ on student completion rates?

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