Today's Clips (8/18/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

President Trump prefers a robust relationship with authoritarian China to one with democratic Taiwan. But other American officials aim to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan ties.

Colleges confront what it means to bring students back to campuses as their fall plans become realities. Will many institutions make it through the fall without outbreaks?

The University of Notre Dame’s president apologized for posing near students for a photo. Princeton canceled in-person classes just weeks before they begin. Canada’s border patrol turned away a mother driving her daughter to McGill because of her U.S. citizenship.

Sarah Showich, an 18-year-old theater major, was looking forward to joining tens of thousands of other students on Monday for a first day of classes on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

While many colleges have switched to online classes, some still plan to reopen for fall semester. They're almost certain to see coronavirus outbreaks.

The 5 schools have 13,300 unfilled dorm beds

CORONAVIRUS

Universities are struggling with how to prevent tightly packed sorority and fraternity houses from turning into virus clusters.

Ohio State’s Justin Fields makes the case for living with Covid.

From Alabama to Oklahoma, local officials reacted with anger on Sunday as thousands of returning college students packed local bars.

The Flames' safety protocols are being called into question amid concerns over players being cleared because they do not show symptoms.

As of Monday morning, UNC had tested 954 students and had 177 in isolation and 349 in quarantine.

UNC System President Peter Hans issued a statement shortly after UNC-Chapel Hill announced all undergraduate classes would move online.

After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his school: Chinese graduate students.

As the debate rages over whether U.S. college football should open its season during the coronavirus pandemic, University of West Virginia player K.J. Martin has already made up his mind: he is out.

The entire Pi Beta Phi sorority at Oklahoma State University was quarantined after 23 sisters test positive for Covid-19.

IN OTHER NEWS

The justices will consider whether a student’s First Amendment lawsuit may proceed after a college in Georgia abandoned its restrictions.

Clemson University says they found more than 200 unmarked graves throughout the cemetery thanks to ground-penetrating radar.

TRADES

They came. They saw. They clustered. Now, a week after starting classes at UNC Chapel Hill, undergraduates are being sent home as coronavirus spreads on campus.

The Chapel Hill campus’s reopening plan lasted just days. “A lot of universities will learn from our experience,” said a member of the public-health faculty.

Nearly 10 percent of the first roughly 500 students and employees tested for COVID-19 at Bethel College, in Kansas, have the virus, the local health agency and Bethel's president announced Monday. In a videotaped statement, Jonathan Gering, Bethel’s president, said that “approximately 50” of those tested as they came to campus this week had the virus, including 43 students and

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