Today's Clips (10/29/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The first time I watched Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (2009), I was devastated. I was anticipating grit, but I wasn’t anticipating a film that would make me feel complicit in its discomfort.

IN OTHER NEWS

As political battles upend college campuses, we asked dozens of students what is on their minds as they plan for the future. Politics was only part of it.

The mayoral candidate has said his education at Bowdoin College was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.

An H.B.C.U.’s remarkable Hale Woodruff murals commemorating Black history have been bought by an art museum and two foundations. But the college says it is not completely letting go.

The leagues decided to embrace wagering a decade ago. Now they are hostage to the forces they unleashed.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey had urged NCAA to rethink rule: “This policy change represents a major step in the wrong direction.”

I’m a constitutional lawyer. I know rules of free expression, free assembly and academic liberty can be complicated. Here’s what’s not complicated. | Opinion

TRADES

According to one researcher, far fewer selective colleges have posted the racial makeup of their incoming classes as compared to this time last year. Last fall, a slew of highly selective institutions released incoming class data showing the impacts of the first admissions cycles since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action.

We’ve documented actions taken on hundreds of college campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students.

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