Today's Clips (12/18/20)
CORONAVIRUS

College admissions have favored the well-off for ages, and the pandemic has only made things worse. Now is now the time to change the process.

Many students wonder about the value of a year turned upside down by the pandemic.

Coach Kelvin Sampson's team hasn't played a game since Dec. 5, but is scheduled to return to the court at home on Sunday.

College football and basketball need commissioners. This fractured year has proved it.

IN OTHER NEWS

Prosecutors said current or former students were part of an operation that funneled thousands of pounds of marijuana, hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and other drugs to fraternities and colleges campuses.

The investigation started with drug activity at or near three Greek houses in Chapel Hill.

The legislation, introduced by Senator Cory Booker, could allow college football players and men’s basketball players to receive six-figure paychecks.

Smith College, one of the richest U.S. liberal arts schools, is splitting with its longtime outside investment firm to manage its more than $2 billion endowment.The move from Investure will enable the women’s college to have “greater direct control over its largest financial asset,” President Kathleen McCartney and Alison Overseth, chair of the board of trustees, said in a statement Thursday.

TRADES

Selfish, hard-partying students make an easy villain. Uncovering the truth about Covid-19 spread on campus is harder.

Scholars pledge not to speak at University of Mississippi until it reinstates a colleague who publicly questioned why his chair rejected a grant, allegedly for political reasons.

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