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Jan 16 2018

Today's Clips (1/16/18)

Today's Clips (1/16/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
More than 20 years later, Gat Creek is an $18 million business thriving in a small West Virginia town.
It’s not unusual when readers mention they’ve written a book about a veteran hero in their family. 
City Council’s newest member Max Hyde believes with the right vision and practical plans to deliver that vision, anything is possible in Spartanburg.Hyde, a Spartanburg native and attorney at Hyde Law Firm, settled into his new council role Monday after running unopposed for the District 4 seat in November.
IN OTHER NEWS
Half of all college students struggle with food insecurity, which is closely linked to lower graduation rates.
Mr. Bezos’ $33 million donation for young immigrants brought to the country illegally injects him into one of the most contentious political issues in the United States.
High costs, indifferent teachers, hours devoted to subjects that have little to do with earning a living in the real world: Is it all worth it? Naomi Schaefer Riley reviews ‘The Case Against Education’ by Bryan Caplan and ‘Rethinking School’ by Susan Wise Bauer.
The College Board responded to remarks by President Trump with an announcement that they would donate money to an academy in Africa that helps prepare students for elite colleges worldwide.
The University of Connecticut is reviewing plans by a Republican student group to bring in a well-known conservative speaker, two months after a speech by another right-wing pundit led to the arrests of him and a protester.
The death of a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student who was stabbed nearly two dozen times and whose body was found buried in a shallow grave at a California park is being investigated as an act of rage, a newspaper reported.
“Education’s like John Gotti,” Bryan Caplan writes in a new broadside against the U.S. system. “Guilty as sin, but everyone’s petrified to testify against it.”
TruTV has given the green light to "Paid Off," a comedy game show aimed at helping the problem of student debt from Michael Torpey.
TRADES
A few college presidents say that developing relationships with conservative students is an important part of a strategy for a collegial campus.
UT Austin says it will not accept funding from a foundation after concerns were raised about its connections to the Chinese Communist Party.
Peloton’s home-based fitness classes, online education, and the new death of distance.
The academy has always been a hothouse of invidious comparison. This website makes it worse.
Victoria Jackson, a lecturer at Arizona State University, drew attention for her Los Angeles Times op-ed about how college athletics “contributes to the undervaluing of black lives.”
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