Today's Clips (12/8/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Taking exit 30 on I-77 will become an official nod to a Charlotte legend. Driving the news: The name change was unanimously approved by the North Carolina Department of Transportation on Thursday. The section from I-77 to Griffith Street will be called the “Steph Curry Interchange.” Catch up quick:  The Town of Davidson passed a resolution in […]

It was the most Davidson College of protests, the kind that usually doesn’t make national news but could dispel the distorted view of what happens on college campuses if it did.

“The growing divide between Democrats and Republicans is paralyzing Congress and worsening our nation's problems."
IN OTHER NEWS

The presidents of Harvard, M.I.T. and Penn faced a barrage of questions at a congressional hearing. Here are some of the most pointed exchanges.

College presidents testified before Congress about campus antisemitism. Rep. Elise Stefanik attacked them for insisting on the distinction between speech and conduct, but that is the key principle in upholding free speech while protecting Jews.

Colleges have discovered the virtues of free speech only now, when the speech in question hurts Jews.

Congress has opened an investigation into Harvard, M.I.T. and University of Pennsylvania, a $100 million gift was withdrawn, and demands have grown for the universities’ presidents to resign.

The nationwide uproar is likely to lead to a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech.

The warning from the financier Ross Stevens came as a congressional panel announced an investigation into antisemitism at Penn, MIT and Harvard.

The controversial testimony of three elite university presidents should mark a turning point in the culture wars over higher education.

College presidents are directly responsible for the hatred that has flourished on campus since Oct. 7.

The Democrat joins a wave of criticism over elite university leaders’ response to campus protests over Israel-Hamas war.

The gunman in a Wednesday mass shooting on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus that left three dead and a fourth critically injured is a 67-year-old career college professor with connections to schools in Georgia and North Carolina, a law enforcement source told CNN, but it’s unknown what connection he had with the school where the shooting took place.

Three people died, and all were faculty members at the university. Law enforcement officials found a list indicating the shooter was seeking numerous people on campus.

A new proposal outlines a radical future for college sports—but the courts are likely to get there first.

As political battles over higher education intensify in Florida, some faculty have found new university homes in North Carolina. But the grass isn’t always greener.

Both universities have seen their fair share of controversies over the past several years.

These four new NC higher education policies are similar to efforts in Florida. And the ideas flow both ways.

TRADES

After Republicans grilled three university presidents on Capitol Hill, experts weigh in on the broader implications for public opinion and the politics of colleges and universities. The failure of three college presidents to clearly say Tuesday that calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated their campus policies quickly went viral on social media—galling alumni, free speech experts and

Colleges across the country have screened the documentary Israelism, but it caused controversy at the University of Pennsylvania and Hunter College in New York. A documentary about two young Jewish Americans who question their loyalty to Israel after traveling to the country and the West Bank has become a flash point in the academic freedom debates consuming some college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Accusations of immorality miss the point.

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