Today's Clips (10/25/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

For decades, as Baltimore lost thousands of residents, its political power in Annapolis dwindled. But the Baltimore region’s sway in state politics looks to be returning.

IN OTHER NEWS

Following California's lead, Florida lawmakers are tackling NCAA rules that prohibit college athletes from reaping financial benefits from their prowess in the arena of big-money sports.

They were guilty of vulgarity and ignorance, but “ridicule” is not a crime.

‘The moral equivalent of war’ played a role in the 1960s civil-rights struggle.

If they’re thinking about black athletes, opinion divides by racial attitudes

The one-time aspiring member of Theta Chi fraternity at the 44,000-student university in Tucson filed an amended notice of claim earlier this week detailing the chemical burn and blood infection he said he suffered after the April 12 incident.

A report released on Wednesday refers to Columbia University and its sister school, Barnard College, in New York City as “a hotbed for hate,” documenting “systemic anti-Semitism and an engrained delegitimization of Israel” at the schools.

Preliminary discussions to open a Wesleyan University campus in China will not move forward because “respective goals could not be sufficiently aligned” and concerns about academic freedom, President Michael S. Roth told students in an email Thursday morning.

The University of Louisville reached an agreement with Papa John’s International founder John Schnatter that will clear the way for a new naming rights deal for the university’s football stadium.

FinTech Boot Camp at UNC Charlotte is a 24-week class that launches in March that’s designed to give students the tools needed to get jobs in a field that has some very specific coding requirements.

TRADES

A noisy protest prompted the University of Pennsylvania to shut down a discussion by a controversial speaker. A debate ensued about whether the university or the students who protested were wrong.

Harvard University expects to pay $49.8 million in federal taxes as a result of the tax reform package passed in 2017. Most of the tax bill, $37.7 million, comes from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s new tax on net investment income -- the so-called endowment tax. The other $12.1 million is from a net investment income tax on operational revenues, unrelated business taxable income

More than 100 people learned that their existing contracts with the Undergraduate and Graduate Schools would be terminated because the schools will no longer exist. Instead, they will need to reapply.

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