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Demanding
One recurring feature of the student protests that have recently swept across college campuses is lists of demands -- for new faculty slots, new presidents, "safe spaces" and more inclusive campuses, just to name a few. As the lists have grown longer and more ambitious, responses from administrations have varied. Add to the list Western Washington University, a public university with about 15,000 students. Late last year, Western made the news after the president called off classes in light of anonymous threats sent via the social media app Yik Yak.
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From Wall St. Bundlers to Bradley Cooper: Inside the State Dinner Guest Lists
President Amy Gutmann is listed as being among those who have been guests at President Obama’s state dinners.
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Berkeley Is Under Fire, Again, for How It Handled Sexual Harassment
For the second time in the last five months, the University of California at Berkeley is facing charges that it failed to adequately punish an academic, in this case, a law dean, whom it found responsible for sexual harassment. The university announced on Wednesday that the dean — Sujit Choudhry — would leave the post but would retain his faculty position at the law school. Last summer the university found Mr. Choudhry responsible for sexually harassing his executive assistant.
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Most Americans Wrongly Think Zika Is Deadly
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about a new survey that reveals that most Americans have misinterpreted the severity of the Zika virus.
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New U.S. Rule Extends Stay for Some Foreign Graduates
Shruthi Aramandla’s education and her job are geared to New York City’s skyline. She did not want to go back to her native India and start all over again. Ms. Aramandla, 24, who has a master’s degree from the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University, has been waiting anxiously for the federal government to publish its new rule on a foreign-worker training program so she would know whether she could stay longer — and perhaps one day permanently — in the United States.
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Battle Lines Drawn Over Medicare Pricing Proposal
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School comments on a Medicare pricing proposal.
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There are Now 9 Confirmed Cases of Mumps at Harvard University
The number of confirmed cases of mumps at Harvard University has risen to nine, according to a statement released by the school on Wednesday. Including the outbreak at Harvard, which began earlier this month, there have been 12 confirmed cases of mumps across the state since January 1, according to a spokesman for the state Department of Public Health. UMass Boston confirmed two cases on Tuesday and another case was confirmed at Bentley University in Waltham in February.
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When Trump Comes to Campus
Is Donald Trump scheduled to appear on your campus? Watch out. The list of incidents at rallies for the leading Republican presidential candidate has been growing over the past few months, and college campuses haven’t been immune. Audience members have physically attacked protesters at Trump’s events on a number of occasions (“Maybe he should have been roughed up,” Trump said about a black protester who had been knocked down and kicked).
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New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants From Any Donor
Jeffrey Berns of Perelman School of Medicine comments on the method of desensitization in the kidney transplant process.
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Race on Campus, Nontraditional Leaders, Rising Confidence: A Survey of Presidents
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education shares his thoughts on college presidents thinking the institutions that they lead are doing well on race relations.