Today's Clips (8/30/22)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
The Red Bull Urban Portage was held Saturday with marathon-distance and half-marathon-distance paddle and portage races. 
STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS

Liberals and more moderate Democrats are arguing over the impact on inflation, the federal budget deficit and high earners.

Our current system of student loans and college funding is at odds with what we hope to achieve by encouraging people to go to college.

The idea that student loan relief is a handout to a small minority of affluent college graduates is simply a myth.

No, it isn’t a bailout for slacker baristas.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of “The Black Swan,” declared on Twitter that the cost of a “student loan debt jubilee should be borne by universities, not taxpayers.”

IN OTHER NEWS

Schools should be able to have policies consistent with their faith, even if they are politically unpopular.

Promoting liberal values at home and abroad was long central to higher education’s mission.

As a Gen-X parent, I pushed them to be independent. But when the time came to drop my oldest at college, I found myself pondering a GPS tracker on his car.

TRADES

A group of Black students started a popular TikTok account where they ask their peers questions about race and identity. Now they’re encouraging others to do the same at campuses across the country.

Two-dozen professors put their heads together on productive classroom discussions. They landed in different places.

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