Today's Clips (9/11/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The college access index 2023. Davidson ranked 220.

In a letter to Rowan Co. historian Dr. Gary Freeze, a group of French historians have concluded that Peter Stuart (Stewart) Ney, who is buried in the cemetery at Third Creek Presbyterian Church in Rowan County, is not Napoleon’s famous military commander Marshal Ney.

Davidson town officials have vowed to crack down on jaywalking on two streets in downtown, but in the first week of enforcement, police have issued no tickets, and reaction from pedestrians is mixed.

IN OTHER NEWS

Unlike many elite colleges, most flagship public colleges are “pretty fair in who gets in.”

Mel Tucker, the head coach, is accused of harassing Brenda Tracy, who speaks out against sexual violence in college sports, according to a report in USA Today.

Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.

Sophomore Ava Jeffs is the latest student to teach a class on the pop star.

On college campuses, the return of students for the fall semester coincides with the return of a still-worrisome health threat: the coronavirus.

TRADES

The Princeton Principles—endorsed by a program and some professors at the university, but not Princeton itself—say off-campus actors “should become involved” in some instances. It’s been nearly a decade since the development of the Chicago principles on campus free expression.

Academics have been consumed by the technology’s potential to disrupt education, but recent analyses present a more complicated picture.

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