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A student holds up a sign during Wednesday’s meeting of the UNC Board of Trustees. Photo by Tasia Harris | The Huffington Post Entry Text Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are renewing a push for the school to change the name of a building named after a 19th-century Ku Klux…
Students play Frisbee, non-satirically, at Penn State. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Questions are being raised about the moral turpitude flourishing inside the walls of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at Penn State University, which was discovered to have a members-only Facebook page featuring non-consensual nude photos of women. Now Philadelphia has published an interview with one…
Where’d you go, conservative defenders of free speech and academic inquiry? Just a few days ago, you were championing a college student who said he’d been removed from class for expressing skepticism over some very dubious sexual assault statistics. But now that the story has taken a turn, you’ve grown so quiet. Last week, Reed…
University of North Georgia’s catalogue shows white men beating a black man and a woman in a race. The cover of the University of North Georgia’s course catalogue does not beat around the bush: Featuring a stock photo that shows two white men in suits beating a woman and a black man at a race,…
Johnson sustained head injury during arrest, governor calls for investigation into excessive use of force in arrest by Chloe Heskett | Mar 18 2015 | 23 hours ago This is a developing story, and will continue to be updated with the latest information available. Martese Johnson, a third-year student in the College and a member…
Last night 300 students at the University of Virginia rallied to protest the violent arrest of Martese Johnson, a fellow student who was reportedly bloodied by officers Tuesday night for trying to enter a local pub with an alleged fake ID. As students marched around campus and into town, chants of “black lives matter” filled…
Thousands of students and their university president attended a rally at the University of Virginia on Wednesday night to show support for an undergraduate student who sustained a bloody head injury while he was being arrested by alcohol control officers close to campus. The Virginia governor, Terry McAuliffe, has called on the state secretary of…
I never took an AP course in high school. I’m pretty sure it was because I never qualified for it (I went straight B-minuses throughout my high school career), but it was also because I went to school back when taking AP courses wasn’t the dire necessity that it is for today’s students. According tothis…
Story highlights David Wheeler: Silicon Valley doesn’t create jobs; it’s wiping out middle-class jobs Young college graduates are struggling with lack of jobs, yet many still idolize Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is tossing millennials aside like yesterday’s laptop. The commonly held belief is that with hard work and a good education, a young person in…
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism to reduce enrollment, cut about six positions Steve Coll, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, tells colleagues: “We believe it’s best for the school to return to a smaller student body size” after years of expansion, and “with regret, I’ve reached the conclusion that we must eliminate…