Today's Clips (10/8/24)
IN OTHER NEWS

During tense but somber vigils on the university library steps, students and their supporters expressed outrage and sorrow.

The school, citing safety, had said no to an event planned on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, but a judge’s ruling last week allowed it to go ahead.

The sentences in Timothy Piazza’s hazing death follow a trend of fraternity members facing prison time for such incidents. His parents seek federal oversight next.

The Northeast’s elite universities are failing local students. It’s time to stanch the outflow of young people from the region.

A judge has given preliminary approval to the $2.78 billion legal settlement that figures to transform college sports.

TRADES

A review of 2024 legislation shows more bills attempting to attack classroom learning indirectly and couch censorship in uncontroversial language. The number of proposed bills aiming to censor what college and K-12 instructors can teach has declined since 2023—but more insidious legislation that indirectly impacts what professors can teach, including by weakening tenure and faculty governance, has become more common.

A year after Hamas’s attack on Israel, we have the first real test of the institutional-neutrality era.

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