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Today's Clips (12/2/20)
 
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Blythe Winchester has known since a young age that she wanted to be a doctor. She remembers “doctoring” her dolls as a child in Cherokee’s Wolfetown community, using the empty needleless syringes her father would bring home from his job as a social worker. The little girl would inject the toys with...

“I learned how to tie my shoes at age 3, but I forgot how. I learned how to do a ponytail at age 7, but I forgot how. It’s odd seeing someone who can’t even turn a key at such an elite school.”

CORONAVIRUS

Concerned about spreading the virus through instruments or singing, student music groups are finding innovative ways to perform together.

The university will give preference to juniors and seniors to return to campus in Cambridge. But all courses will remain online.

Schools like Yale and Brown have already begun to reconsider the traditional GPA.

The CDC plans to shorten by half its mandatory quarantine time for those who come into close contact with a COVID-19 positive.

The U Experience claims it's received a flood of excited applicants, but people online are wary. Some are calling the idyllic venture "Fyre University."

IN OTHER NEWS

It looks like the beginning of the end of America’s obsession with student standardized tests

TRADES

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos didn't offer any reassurances as student loan borrowers near having to make payments again.

Students at Emory & Henry College can earn academic credit while hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Intellectual curiosity has been replaced by pro forma attention to representation.

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