Today's Clips (8/14/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Doctors recommend the best products for college students to protect themselves and others on campus, including masks from Gildan, Vistaprint, and Jaanuu; Clorox and Lysol cleaning products; Germ-X hand sanitizerl and more.

Students are beginning to move their things into dorms, and classes start soon. They’ll be greeted with a long list of restrictions.

Most college students haven’t been in a classroom since spring break. As these students get ready to start college, COVID-19 continues to change the way

Joe Biden announced his historic VP pick Tuesday.

CORONAVIRUS

College football’s most influential players got together to discuss the issues that they felt their sports’ administrators had failed to address over many months of this pandemic.

As the fall semester kicks off in person on many campuses, some professors are protesting, saying it's too dangerous.

Many students are considering a gap year, worried about the cost and quality of online instruction. But economists say that isn't a great idea.

The pandemic is bringing the sport face-to-face with its deepest flaws.

Boston University responded to criticism it received on social media on Wednesday after announcing it would award posthumous degrees to students who die.

“It’s not acceptable for BU administration to not listen to its workers,” Kristin Lacey, a PhD candidate at Boston University, said.

An event operator in Houston said he's sent a proposal to at least 50 college basketball programs about a bubble that would allow 20 teams to play an entire nonconference schedule in three weeks in December.

A dangerous possible side effect of Covid-19 is looming over college athletics as some universities get set to take the field this fall.

A community college in Ohio has had no reported cases of COVID-19 traced to the school since reopening for in-person classes three months ago.

IN OTHER NEWS

The Trump administration said the university discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants. Yale defended its practices and vowed to maintain them.

State Department officials said the move was aimed at informing American schools of potential propaganda from the government group’s programs, largely known as Confucius Institutes.

The university is told it is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

TRADES

More colleges continue to cut tuition rates in response to pressure from students and families.

The regulations for responding to campus sexual misconduct complaints go into effect today. Some colleges are implementing them along with their own guidelines to protect sexual assault victims.

North Carolina public university employees hope a lawsuit will make their governing board take seriously their coronavirus concerns.

Campus life in the Covid-19 era is underway at the University of Kentucky, bringing an eerie juxtaposition of the familiar and the menacing.

The new Title IX regulations take effect on Friday. In the throes of a pandemic, some colleges had to put it on the back burner.

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