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Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Raise Dementia Risk
Kevin Nead of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about using A.D.T., androgen deprivation therapy, as a treatment for prostate cancer.
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Revolt at Liberty U
Students at Liberty University have issued a statement criticizing their president, Jerry Falwell Jr., for endorsing and continuing to stand by Donald Trump's presidential candidacy. A statement issued by students Wednesday night said that Falwell is damaging the reputation of their university and that they are speaking out to "regain the integrity" of the institution. Under the name Liberty United Against Trump, students issued a statement that illustrates deep divisions on the campus over Falwell's active work on behalf of the Trump campaign.
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Please Call Me Zimmy: Of My Last Name and Bob Dylan's
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education wrote about living life with the same real last name as Bob Dylan.
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Not ‘Locker-Room Talk': In Video, Yale Athlete, Fraternity Member and Others Counter Sexual Assault
Students at Yale University had been working on a video addressing campus sexual assault for months after a high-profile incident on campus last year. But when a 2005 video of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump talking about groping women was published in The Washington Post last week, the project suddenly felt urgent.
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Study: Minorities Less Likely to Attend Top Public Colleges
Black and Latino students in the U.S. are far less likely than their peers of other races to attend elite public universities, according to a new study. The Center for American Progress, a think tank in Washington, D.C., analyzed federal data from 2014 to compare the types of public colleges students of different races attended. The group divided colleges by selectivity, ranking them as elite public universities, other four-year schools or community colleges.
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What A Landmark Finding in a Title IX Case Means for Colleges Wrestling With Sex Assault
In an apparent first, federal officials have found a college in violation of Title IX, the gender-equity law, for infringing on the rights of students accused of sexual violence. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights had opened an investigation of Wesley College, in Delaware, in July 2015. That investigation was one of more than 300 the office, known as OCR, has conducted into colleges for possibly mishandling reports of sexual violence. In the past, OCR’s findings about colleges have occasionally alluded to the rights of accused students.
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Surge of PA Republicans, Democrats Switching Sides This Election
Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts and Sciences is quoted on voter registrations and changes before the presidential election.
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Trump just laid out a pretty radical student debt plan
Donald Trump is promising the most liberal student loan repayment plan since the inception of the federal financial aid program, in a clear effort to court the millions of Americans struggling with the high cost of college.
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Catholic University Graduate Alleges School Was ‘Indifferent’ to Rape Report
A Catholic University graduate has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that her alma mater was “deliberately indifferent” to her report of being raped on campus during her freshman year. Erin Cavalier, 22, says the school mishandled its investigation of the case and impeded her work afterward as an advocate for sexual-assault survivors.
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After 4-Year Delay, Kansas Colleges Move to Carry Out Campus Gun Law
For three years, Kansas’ public colleges have known a guns-on-campus law would take effect. That day is drawing closer and closer. In 2013 state legislators enacted the law, which requires that licensed handgun owners be allowed to carry their concealed weapons on public-college campuses, but the colleges were able to opt out for four years. Starting on July 1, 2017, though, they’ll have to comply. And this month they’re submitting their proposed policies to the Kansas Board of Regents for approval.