Today's Clips (9/16/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

While over 90% of the original FARC remain committed to the peace process, Colombia is not truly at peace. As dissidents disperse to guerrilla strongholds and return to arms, the best hope is that Iván Duque will spur his administration to invigorate the implementation of the peace deal, writes Russell Crandall.

IN OTHER NEWS

The University of Chicago has long been associated with the idea that antitrust decisions should be based on prices for consumers, not market dominance. That’s starting to change.

Deborah Ramirez’s Yale experience says much about the college’s efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s.

The bill, if signed by the governor, would mark a new way of giving women access to abortion as conservative states tighten restrictions.

A conversation with Lawrence Lessig about Jeffrey Epstein, M.I.T. and reputation laundering.

A union-backed law would sow Commerce Clause chaos and render the NCAA irrelevant.

The state would be come the second to pass a bill allowing college athletes to be paid for their names, images and likenesses.

A college in southwest Virginia is seeing limited interest in an inaugural program that offers discounted tuition to students from Appalachia

The college year has begun anew, with students now settled in their dorm rooms, stacks of weighty books on their desks and, hopefully, the dawning...

The Confederate monument Silent Sam was torn down by protesters last year and the statue’s remains have been stored away in an undisclosed location. This UNC Chapel Hill student may have found it.

A few years ago, a strange phenomenon began to appear in polls that asked Americans for their opinions about higher education: People’s responses suddenly started to diverge along partisan lines.
TRADES

After a rash of student protests against controversial and conservative speakers on college campuses, state lawmakers around the country are passing legislation they say protect everyone’s free speech rights. Not everyone agrees.

Social mobility has stalled and the public is losing trust. Time for universities to rethink their role in American life?

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