Today's Clips (6/17/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The comments became a trending topic on Twitter on Tuesday as people objected to slavery being described as a “blessing” and that “white blessing” could replace the term “white privilege.”

Jetton Road isn’t exactly where you’d expect to see a civil rights demonstration, albeit with just one person. Emily Paton, 18, got her share of honks, thumbs up signs, and that one-finger salute everyone hates, but she was all in on a hot June afternoon just outside The Peninsula.

CORONAVIRUS

With coronavirus waivers and a lack of testing data, universities leave athletes on their own.

The University of Maryland will turn "triple" and "quad" rooms into doubles. Frostburg State will have only one bed per room.

After scrambling online, schools delay admissions deadlines, scrap GMAT, plan for hybrid classes, and hear calls for tuition refunds.

IN OTHER NEWS

Learning has been online and remote this semester. So too, now, are call-outs of questionable behavior.

A pair of college students are finding icy stares and insults as they work to remove Confederate symbols from their cul-de-sac.

Players such as Chuba Hubbard and Trevor Lawrence are leading the dialogue right now, and that's for the best.

The $10 million contract Charlotte and Jerry Richardson signed keeps the former Panthers owner’s name on the stadium forever.

“I suppressed so much of my humanity in being here.”

Black college graduates experience inequities in access, safety, inclusion and finances in college at greater rates than white graduates.

Amid the pandemic and the protests, athletes can demand better treatment.

TRADES

The Chronicle asked 30 institutions whether they would embrace popular demands already being made by student activists. Their answers suggested reluctance.

Institutions already struggle to get students to abide by safety policies, particularly those governing alcohol use. The Covid-19 health restrictions will be even harder to enforce.

The pandemic has accelerated and worsened equity gaps in higher education and its connection to work, according to new data, which may also show paths to improving this connection.

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