Today's Clips (9/17/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

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CORONAVIRUS

In reversing their call to postpone the season, the Big Ten’s presidents ignored the realities of life on their campuses in the pandemic. Athletes may pay the price.

The Big Ten’s reversal on playing college football this fall puts young players at risk for our entertainment. The Pac-12 should resist pressure and continue to stand down.

The pandemic has dramatically changed what admissions officers are looking for.

This was an especially difficult year for students to choose where to start their freshman year.

The big lie at the heart of college sports is finally out in the open.

Fears are rising of a "Lost Generation" of college students as low-income students, especially Black students, are dropping out of college or not enrolling. Many low-income students say they don’t have good enough Wifi at home to take online courses.

Hundreds at more than a dozen elite colleges and universities nationwide have cut ties with fraternities and sororities over the past three months, saying the organizations are out of line with growing demands for social justice.

The decision to forego voting booths on campus is playing out in a state where voting access has been hugely controversial and where Republican Brian Kemp, now the governor of Georgia, has been accused of suppressing votes while he was overseeing a tight election as secretary of state and simultaneously running for his current office.

More than 1,000 students at North Carolina State University have tested positive for the coronavirus since classes began last month.

NPR's David Greene talks to two student newspaper editors-in-chief — Ivan Jackson and Anna Pogarcic about what it's like to cover COVID-19 outbreaks at their respective universities.

Point A has been achieved, but now it's up to college basketball to get us to Point B

Liberty University released information on its COVID-19 dashboard Wednesday that shows a large amount of the campus population in quarantine.

IN OTHER NEWS

The school’s undergraduate-admissions practices were scrutinized as a federal appeals court heard oral arguments in a high-profile case about how race factors into decisions regarding acceptance offers.

“To make this move now just couldn’t be more arrogant.”

TRADES

Rising infection counts drove a shelter-in-place order at the University of Wisconsin at Madison shortly after classes started, prompting questions about bringing students back to campus.

Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions tussled in court on recent changes in the university’s admissions process, and a panel of judges had a lot of questions for the plaintiffs.

Following weeks of upheaval, at best the university’s president avoided faculty condemnation with an asterisk.

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