Today's Clips (6/3/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The CDC will no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy pregnant women and children. Experts criticize the change, especially as the new NB.1.8.1 variant surges.

The North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has elected its first female bishop. 
IN OTHER NEWS

JD Vance wanted to “aggressively attack” American universities. His wish has been the president’s command.

The Justice Department opened an investigation into the student-run Harvard Law Review. The startling accusations show how the Trump administration is wielding power in pursuit of its political agenda.

Harvard officials, in a new court filing on Monday, detailed the extent of cuts that the Trump administration had made to a broad swath of university research projects.

The real threat to the existing system comes from the internet and AI, not Donald Trump.

I’ll go with Harvard, source of so much of the rot in universities and in culture generally.

The unemployment rate for recent college graduates has jumped as companies try to replace entry-level workers with artificial intelligence.

TRADES

After a series of court losses spurred Trump officials to change course on their international student agenda, they’ve returned with a slate of new and devastating policies. Almost three months after the arrest of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, international students in the U.S. still face unprecedented challenges and threats from the federal government. For many, this semester has been a roller coaster of existential fear, fleeting hope and, above all, uncertainty about their future.

Trump’s campaign against higher ed relies on the idea that antisemitism and anti-Zionist discrimination violates federal civil-rights law. That’s not always true, two professors say.

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