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Jan 9 2018

Today's Clips (1/9/18)

Today's Clips (1/9/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is traditionally interpreted as a play about the gods' relation to human agency. But this understanding of the text is deficient and misses the point. Instead, and as I argue, the play is what happens when man abdicates reason in favor of blind piety.
IN OTHER NEWS
A judge has entered a $250,000 judgment against West Virginia Wesleyan College in a discrimination lawsuit.
Four years after a 19-year-old freshman died, a fraternity is sentenced.
The closures of Tau Kappa Epsilon and Delta Chi were done by the national organizations of the fraternities in collaboration with East Carolina University officials.
A historically black institution confronts a new era in politics.
Months after Evergreen State College became the center of a national debate on race and education, one woman is working to build a more inclusive culture there.
TRADES
The University of California, Berkeley has issued a statement saying that it is trying to help an undocumented student who has been detained by the Department of Homeland Security.
Some students at highly selective institutions fail to acknowledge their own privilege, and as a result tend to embrace an overly narrow and dogmatic definition of diversity, Eboo Patel writes.
Historians urge departments to give their graduate students the confidence, skills and support to succeed in whatever career paths they choose. That means going out of their way to avoid implying that nonfaculty jobs are somehow “less than.”
The ability to express one's opinion, no matter how unfounded or false, has become the test of free speech. Knowledge is the casualty.
In this time of strong political tensions, groups have seized on statements made by professors and taken them to task, sometimes with such vehemence that the faculty members feared for their jobs or safety. 
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