Today's Clips (6/14/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

A member of the Common Thread Theatre Program explained what we can look forward to from their two plays this summer

The students were asked to view a couple of videos about race and discuss “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
IN OTHER NEWS

A Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals dissent is a signal flare for the Supreme Court to take this case.

Getting cash to college athletes isn’t a charitable purpose, the IRS says. Audits could follow.

The Fourth Circuit upholds Virginia Tech's official Bias Intervention and Response Team, which encourages anonymous reports from students. But is the dissent by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III a signal flare for the Supreme Court? Plus, the CPI report shows 4% inflation.

The Supreme Court is set to rule soon on whether to ban race-conscious admissions at colleges. Military academies have used that tactic for years to promote diversity.

Abyssinia Haile, a Black student in Wilbraham and the president of her class, worries the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action could hurt her chances to be the first in her family to go to college.

Nearly every student at North Carolina's flagship university is white or Asian, despite decades of affirmative action policies. But a U.S. Supreme Court case says there are still too many Black and Hispanic students being admitted, at the expense of white and Asian students with higher test scores.

TRADES

When the victim of a campus sexual assault faced a counterclaim by her alleged attacker, she sued him for “abuse of the Title IX process," in what experts say is a new approach. A recent Title IX case at King’s College in Pennsylvania has highlighted what experts say is a new legal strategy for sexual assault victims whose alleged attackers take the aggressive approach of filing a counterclaim.

A state commission proposed overhauling UNC governing board appointments to reduce partisanship, but some say lawmakers have few incentives to remove politics from the system. North Carolina governor Roy Cooper formed the Commission on the Governance of Public Universities last November to study “instability and political interference” in governance at both the institutional and system levels.

The Classic Learning Test has struggled to find much traction outside of Christian colleges. But its founder says the Sunshine State’s vote of confidence is opening doors.

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