Today's Clips (5/6/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Anti-Semitic incidents occurred in nearly 20 cities in towns in North Carolina, including several in the Triangle

IN OTHER NEWS

Many routinely skip meals and take ‘poverty naps’ because they cannot afford groceries. Campus food pantries are helping, but are they enough?

A Harvard government department committee issued a report criticizing a culture that let a professor stay employed despite a history of complaints.

Even as the field has united against racist misuses of the past, it has been roiled by debate over whether it has a white supremacy problem of its own.

Making the jump from tourist to transient local is tough in the space of a few months. But is that even the point?

In mob trials, prosecutors flipped the underlings to nail the bosses. In college basketball’s corruption trial, the small players are taking big hits.

Students who apply to college with the help of an online platform that shows where their peers were accepted or rejected are more likely to get into their own choices—but they also may be deterred from applying to highly selective schools.

The parents behind the largest-known payment in the college admissions scandal offer a window into the elite world of the ultrawealthy Chinese business class.

The mother of Yusi Zhao said William "Rick" Singer, the college consultant at the center of the college admissions scandal, deceived her.

Sophie Capshaw-Mack said she was 19 years old in May 2015 when she was raped - but North Carolina laws didn't see her as a victim.

Last week's shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte that killed two students and wounded four was just the kind of tragedy a team of officials at the school was trying to prevent.

Family and friends gathered in Lake Junaluska, NC, for the memorial service for Riley Howell, the student who was honored by family, friends and the military for his heroism in the UNC Charlotte shooting.

TRADES

Students at Johns Hopkins University who have occupied parts of a campus building for several weeks are intensifying their takeover, and the university says that they are preventing others from using the building and creating health risks. The protest is over plans by Hopkins to start a private police force, an idea that many students and faculty oppose.

Educators from the university and elsewhere consider whether innovation is still possible in liberal arts education.

The faculty member was put on leave in March while the university investigates the accusations, from current and former undergraduate and graduate students and one professor.

As a bribery scandal lays bare everything that is wrong in admissions, the Education Conservancy’s Lloyd Thacker ponders higher-ed’s future and his own legacy

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