Today's Clips (3/1/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians’ worst fears about HIV and COVID-19 don’t appear to have materialized—but there remains a lot of uncertainty.

Mecklenburg County’s coronavirus trends have shown rapid improvement.

CORONAVIRUS

Whether they can deliver hinges largely on factors outside their control.

Because it’s too much fun and freaks out university lawyers.

Campuses haven’t seen the drastic spikes in daily case counts or large clusters, even after students rushed Franklin Street or threw large off-campus parties.

A student organization at Wake Forest University has been placed on interim suspension after a portion of the floor collapsed during an off-campus party on Saturday, school officials say.

IN OTHER NEWS

Teachers lament students don’t know anything; a puzzle challenge shows them what it’s like to be a novice, and what helps beginners learn.

Surveys of faculty opinion show the growing extent of political discrimination and cancel culture.

VCU announced Sunday it has suspended the Delta Chi fraternity. Similarly, the Delta Chi national office issued a cease-and-desist order to its VCU chapter Saturday.

TRADES

Ninety-four percent of college students surveyed believe online classes should cost less than in-person instruction, according to a new report from Barnes & Noble Education. The report is based on responses from 1,438 students and provides an outlook on the future of higher education following the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly half of the students surveyed also said that the

Lawrence University announced that if it raised $85 million, it would meet full need. It raised more than that but won't be a full-need institution -- at least not yet.

Wealth transfers, not symbolic gestures, are the best path to equity.

Carl Hart has long pushed back on what he calls “the peddlers of pathology” when it comes to narcotics. In a new book, the Columbia University professor acknowledges his own drug use and how it’s made him a “happier and better person.”

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