Today's Clips (4/28/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Messages and images of hate were etched at Davidson College this past weekend. The targets centered on the Jewish and Black communities. Despite the shockingly hateful words and images, people said it was not unexpected.

According to Davidson College, the deplorable graffiti was found on a blackboard in an outdoor classroom that also appeared on social media.
IN OTHER NEWS

Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union’s height.

At Virginia Military Institute, a college trying to attract more women and minorities, Martin D. Brown declares diversity is the “wrong mission."

A former Florida college administrator has been sentenced to one year and three months in federal prison for defrauding the school out of $155,000 during a website redesign project

As college tuition continues to rise, families are trying to figure out where their kids will go to college and how they'll pay for it.

TRADES

After a swath of swatting incidents hit universities across the country, some students are taking issue with how and when their institutions notified them of the threats. University of Pittsburgh sophomore Zach Shafer was working on his thermodynamics homework late on the evening of April 10 when police suddenly swarmed the Hillman Library and ordered students to evacuate. Shafer, sitting in view of the library’s front doors, was one of the first students out, leaving behind his laptop, textbooks and headphones—everything but his phone. “It was basically a stampede towards the entrance,” he said.

Tuition revenues are eroding, but small institutions have a plethora of ways to fight back.

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