Today's Clips (12/5/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

"Does your university have a Confederate statue?" Christopher R. Marsicano, a Davidson College visiting faculty member, produced an interactive map to help answer that question.

IN OTHER NEWS

There is an uncomfortable truth in the current system. No one wants to talk about it.

Moving out on my own was exciting and scary at the same time. Here’s how I got through it.

Seventeen women who claim they were sexually abused by a Manhattan gynecologist filed a lawsuit Tuesday against hospitals and clinics affiliated with Columbia University.

The proposal to return the Silent Sam Confederate monument to a new $5.3 million building at UNC-Chapel Hill is “sheer cowardice,” said Thom Goolsby, a member of the UNC system’s Board of Governors.

UNC proposes a new building for the Silent Sam Confederate memorial. But that statue was raised with racist intentions and is a divisive presence. It deserves no place of honor on campus.

Students at the country's largest evangelical Christian university have started an independent news site where articles won't have to be approved by school officials.

A black student blamed his "bottled up anger" for racist, threatening graffiti he admitted to scrawling in a bathroom on a Maryland college campus, according to a police report.

This fall, Princeton University admitted its first transfer students in nearly three decades. And they're not the only elite schools looking to community colleges and military bases to recruit.

"I find alcohol existentially terrifying.”

The Washington State University College Republicans would like to build another wall on campus to demonstrate their support for the president's views on immigration. 

TRADES

Since the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October, campuses have seen a rise in displays targeting Jews.

Scholars say their field is coming under increasing pressures from forces outside the academy who want to delegitimize it.

Understanding it is crucial, especially now that it’s in existential peril.

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