Davidson's central academic building is named after Maxwell Chambers, a slave owner whose financial gift after his death helped keep the college afloat in the 1850s.

Salisbury financier’s money and slaves kept the school afloat during the Civil War

Davidson’s men are predicted to finish 12th in the Atlantic 10, and the women are predicted to finish seventh.

Pro-Palestinian students say that they are speaking up for an oppressed people, but critics say that their rhetoric is deeply offensive.

As a principle of academic debate, speech should be presumptively allowed. The details of achieving that may get messy, but that goal is fundamental.

An encounter with fringe lunatics then gave a foretaste of today’s bitter hatred.

The university was started by a group of higher education critics who believe traditional higher education has abandoned its commitment to open inquiry, free speech and civil discourse.

In a wide-ranging discussion, lawmakers questioned witnesses about the source of antisemitism and the best way to support students facing hate on campus. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Democrats and Republicans agreed that antisemitism is a problem on college campuses—but that’s where the consensus ended. While questioning a panel of six witnesses—three antisemitism experts, a Jewish student at Cornell University and two leaders of conservative student organizations—the lawmakers sparred over what’s driving the current spike in antisemitism as well as what the federal government can do to ensure Jewish students feel safe on campus.

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