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Fraternity Justice
Congressional Republicans on Wednesday introduced legislation designed to strengthen the due process rights of students accused of sexual assault and to prevent campus investigations from taking place unless a victim also reports the allegations to law enforcement. The bill would make it tougher to kick a fraternity or sorority off campus without a proper hearing, and bar colleges from forcing Greek organizations to become coeducational.
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Is Free Speech on Campus Under Threat in Age of ‘Empathetic Correctness’?
Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis acknowledged she was being a little irreverent when she wrote an article about student-professor relationships. “Forgive my slightly mocking tone,” she wrote in the article, “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe." “When I was in college, hooking up with professors was more or less part of the curriculum.” She was surprised, and a little amused, when she heard that students were lugging mattresses up to the college president’s office in protest of the article.
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Los Angeles Olympics 2024: After Successful 1984 Games, Can LA Pull It Off Again?
Kenneth Shropshire of the Wharton School comments on what factors cities should consider before hosting the Olympics.
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Critics Besiege Presidential Debate Commission
The Annenberg Public Policy Center is mentioned for organizing a bipartisan group that critiques the Presidential Debate Commission.
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This Surprising Personality Trait Could Make You More Successful
Adam Grant of the Wharton School is mentioned for a study that revealed how ambiverts were the most successful sales people.
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Video: World’s First Pediatric Double-hand Transplant Performed in Phila.
L. Scott Levin of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses leading a team of surgeons to perform the world’s first bilateral hand transplant on a child.
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Struggling to Stay True to Wisconsin’s Ideals
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is not a particularly wealthy school. So when the writing on the wall made it clear that the regional campus, which educates 10,700 students, would have about a quarter of its state funds cut this year, Eau Claire administrators had already planned a course of action to trim the fat: significant administrative reductions, preferably as far away from the academic enterprise as possible.
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University of Cincinnati Officer Indicted in Shooting Death of Samuel Dubose
A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge in what a prosecutor called “a senseless, asinine shooting” of an unarmed man during a minor traffic stop. Officials say it was the first time such a charge had been leveled against an officer in the county. The Hamilton County prosecuting attorney, Joseph T. Deters, released a much anticipated video of the shooting of Samuel Dubose taken by the officer’s body camera that he described as crucial evidence that Mr.
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Dear Google, Why Is College So Expensive?
Laura Perna of the Graduate School of Education comments on the price of college.
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To Fix the Fed, Simplify It
Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School pens an op-ed about repairing the Federal Reserve System.