Today's Clips (3/23/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Frustration over pandemic reopening plans is growing in New Jersey’s affluent suburbs, where taxes are high and many students are barely in classrooms.

Grady’s scoring, shooting could potentially make him attractive to ACC programs.

Documentary Film Maker Tim Gray asked the Davidson College History Department to be part of the research for his upcoming film on going back to Iwo Jima.

In an effort to prevent COVID-19 spread from student travel and partying, some Connecticut colleges and universities are requiring mandatory testing for students who return to campus after spring break or requiring students to take online-only classes after their week off.

CORONAVIRUS

Spectators will be allowed at 49ers sports events, but capacity has not yet been determined.

How the pandemic has thrown college admissions process into a kind of slow-motion chaos. One of the biggest changes: most colleges have stopped requiring the SAT. For decades, there’s been a debate over whether schools should drop the test. What’s it mean that it finally happened?

IN OTHER NEWS

A girl grows up on food stamps and becomes an engineer. New research shows why.

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

“Due to the horrific acts we witnessed in Atlanta this week and the increase in Asian hate crimes, I feel that I can no longer be silent.”

The new Netflix documentary, like the scandal, has a dose of Hollywood.

Students and faculty have called for the University of Richmond to remove the names of Robert Ryland and Douglas Freeman from its buildings. A student government association has suspended its

TRADES

The curriculum is stale. The majors are stale. Here’s a plan for reinvention.

King Alexander’s past handling of sexual-misconduct allegations at Louisiana State is under scrutiny, and his new bosses have little incentive to save him.

Federal appeals court finds that Iowa administrators can be held personally liable for their actions in deregistering a Christian student group that denied a leadership role to a gay student.

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