Today's Clips (6/25/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Even schools that live for football may be forced to cancel sports to limit Covid, borrowing a page from the Ivy League.
CORONAVIRUS

A spike in positive coronavirus tests is prompting universities across college sports to acknowledge how precarious their plans are for a season.

A report shows how easily the virus is spread — and how it can be contained.

IN OTHER NEWS

This pandemic has surfaced a dilemma frequently ignored: A-F grades are used poorly and for too many different purposes.

The new approach finds unlikely allies among some feminist scholars, who say colleges and universities were failing to sufficiently protect the rights of young men accused of sexual misconduct.

In the wake of George Floyd’s death, college football players have been speaking out — challenging the sport’s power structure in the process.

Life after graduation is always an unknown. But the coronavirus pandemic has added even more uncertainty for the nearly 4 million students expected to receive college degrees in 2019-20, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

The city will be creating a commission to revisit the names and history of streets and buildings that honor a Confederate past.

Washington and Lee University faculty discussed a resolution to remove all references to the Confederacy from the campus of the small liberal arts college in Lexington as well as to

The University of Richmond has rescinded an admissions offer to a student who the college said posted an “offensive and racially charged” video on social media.

The former president of a now-defunct fraternity at Ohio University has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from hazing that led to a student’s death two years ago.

TRADES

College announcements fall along a continuum from mostly online to mostly in person. Some unusual elements: scheduled showers and a primarily freshman campus.

While some colleges make extensive plans to guard against a spread of the coronavirus when they reopen, others can't afford to do as much and are worried about running out of basic supplies.

Empathetic gestures and rote affirmations of principle erase the people they’re meant to help.

The University of South Carolina’s president attributed 79 new cases among students in eight days to off-campus gatherings.

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