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Hundreds March at Yale in Solidarity With Minority Students
A crowd of hundreds stopped traffic on city streets surrounding the Yale University campus Monday in a march to show solidarity with minority students who say they are barred from full participation at the Ivy League school. Winding their way past the university’s four cultural centers — and the Yale chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, where brothers have been accused of turning black women away from a party last weekend — students displayed signs urging the university to support women of color, faculty of color and ethnic studies. One sign read: “Your move Yale.”
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The Temptation of Baylor
When Grant Teaff arrived at Baylor University to coach football in 1972, the university’s stadium was in as poor shape as its floundering team. The way Teaff tells it, the bleachers were made of splintering wood and “there wasn’t a blade of grass on the field.” There certainly wasn’t a weight room for his players to train in. Teaff decided his team should have one, even if it was just a concrete block shoved underneath the stadium seats. He needed a way to finance the project, so he asked a well-connected friend and booster named Charlie Jones to ask around.
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The Weird World of Brain Hacking
Roy Hamilton of the Perelman School of Medicine is mentioned for studying electrical brain stimulation.
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Limits Are Key to Business Creativity, Wharton Prof Says
Rom Schrift of the Wharton School says, “Maybe there’s a sweet spot where we can actually use constraints in a way that will actually help us.”
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U. of Missouri Chief Resists Calls to Resign After Football Team Joins Protest of Racism
Timothy M. Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri system, responded to increasing calls for his resignation by saying on Sunday that “change is needed” and that his administration was working “around the clock” to deal with concerns raised by protesters angry over the university’s handling of racial controversies. But his remarks, in a statement released by the university, made no mention of resigning and did little to satisfy the protesters.
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Has Mother’s Milk Gone Sour?
Postdoc Jessica Martucci of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for her research about breastfeeding and natural motherhood in America.
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How Positivity Makes You Healthy and Successful
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for researching how pessimism is not good for health.
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The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors
Rachel A. Griffin is used to students she doesn’t know showing up for her office hours here at Southern Illinois University. Sometimes they come to see her on her first day of class for the semester. The stories, by now, are familiar: Often a friend has taken a course from Ms. Griffin, associate professor in the department of communication studies, and thinks she’ll have good advice. The student sits down and tearfully describes a problem he or she is counting on Ms. Griffin to help solve.
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In Tulsa, a Hot Spot for Early Childhood Education, the Grade Is ‘Incomplete’
Katherina Rosqueta of the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy comments on how Tulsa’s private-public partnerships serve as a example for other cities.
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High Pay for Presidents Is Not Shown to Yield Any Fund-Raising Payoff
Public colleges should not assume that a generous salary will buy them a president who is adept at raising money, a new study concludes. After accounting for factors like institution size, the researchers, all at Florida State University, found no link between how much public colleges pay their presidents and how much money the institutions take in from private donors and state appropriations.