Today's Clips (1/30/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

“I want to talk about how we change the world,” Bryan Stevenson said as he opened a lecture Tuesday night at Davidson College.

But study also finds divestment has no adverse effects on university portfolios.

IN OTHER NEWS

Iowa State University prohibited political slogans on sidewalks after students complained that the messages had become discriminatory and divisive.

Most U.S. universities made money on their financial investments last year, but their returns were tempered by a global economic slowdown fueled by America’s trade war with China, according to an annual survey of school finance chiefs.

Charles Lieber, the Harvard professor arrested and charged with lying to U.S. authorities about taking millions of dollars from the Chinese government, is considered one of the fathers of a specialized field in nanotechnology.

Students shut down a speech. Now they want impunity for disrupters.

Great art is too ‘white, straight, European and male,’ so it’ll have to give way to the latest agitprop.

The alumni include a former congressman, an acclaimed fashion designer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a Hall of Fame soccer player and a former chief justice of the NC Supreme Court.

Racial healing circles and a student leadership fellows program are part of the effort.

Many admissions issues are complicated, but preferences for the children of alumni are indefensible.

Who are the worst campus censors? The competition is stiff, but today FIRE released its annual list of America’s 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech.

TRADES

At least not in its current form.

At Northern Arizona University, students crossed party lines to campaign for her resignation.

A writing contest held at the University of Montana to honor MLK and encourage multi-racial dialogue went awry. Instead of helping bridge racial divides among students, it amplified them.

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