Today's Clips (5/8/24)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Planned Parenthood said it will spend $10 million on elections in North Carolina alone.
IN OTHER NEWS

No matter their opinions on pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus, many parents are angry that final semesters and graduations have been upended.

Students discuss the balance between free expression and an orderly academic setting.

Students demanded that we side against Israel, violating the core principle of institutional neutrality.

The traditional campuswide graduation ceremonies have the ability to serve as a symbolic rebuke to isolation, self-centeredness and timidity.

Think carefully first, but take it from a former protester: The point of civil disobedience is to get in trouble.

The move came as D.C.’s police chief and mayor are scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about police’s previous refusal to move on the demonstrators.

University of Virginia and police officials defended actions that led to the arrests of more than 25 pro-Palestinian protesters on campus grounds over the weekend, even as faculty members and others criticized what they saw as an overly aggressive response.

Arrests, suspensions, canceled commencements.

Four years after COVID disrupted high school graduations, many college seniors are looking forward to their first real commencement. Student protests are forcing some to adjust their expectations.

The university warned that anyone causing a significant disruption to the event “will be subject to arrest.”

Protesters first set up an encampment April 22 in a quad across from the student union.

TRADES

Badges and certificates aren’t just for technical fields anymore. John Davis, dean of the College of Music at University of Colorado Boulder, finds that today’s music students want more than a traditional music education. Many want the technical skills to compose and produce tracks on their laptops or to pursue new kinds of music careers, such as writing scores for video games.

An Emory professor who was arrested when the police broke up an encampment spoke to The Chronicle about what happened, and what it says about the state of higher education.

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