Today's Clips (8/30/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

President Donald Trump will travel to North Carolina next month to rally voters on the eve of a do-over of a 2018 congressional race that both parties expect to be close, with implications for Trump's re-election bid and lawmakers campaigns in 2020.

The Davidson Wildcats’ upcoming nonconference basketball schedule features a healthy dose of Power 5 conference competition.
IN OTHER NEWS

When getting a degree is seen as a moral obligation, families will spend whatever it takes.

After a summer in rehab, using a zombie escape room as a test for a college student’s readiness to launch.

The actor, an alumnus of the university who has taught there as a visiting instructor, will teach a class on filmmaking this fall.

I want to call Anthony Kronman’s new book a cry of the heart, but it’s more like a cry of the brain.

Campus tour guides are expected to serve as the face of the university and as an authentic voice for prospective students. Can they truly be both? The clouds are playing matador defense on the sun when I get to the Washington, D.C., campus of Georgetown University in mid-July.
Being a college student is a lot comfier than it used to be. This fall, many of the undergrads settling into their campus dwellings will find themselves in buildings far better appointed than the ones that now-graying alumni once called home.
TRADES

Marybeth Gasman required students at her Penn research center to sign blanket nondisclosure agreements. Experts say that's unheard-of in academe and leaves students vulnerable to abuse.

In his class on the psychology of evil, an instructor learned that it helps to give students hope so that they can face some of life’s toughest questions.

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