11/15
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Columbia Examines Its Long-Ago Links to Slavery
Daniel D. Tompkins, the sixth vice president of the United States, has long gazed impassively from an oil portrait hanging in the residence of the president of Columbia University, his alma mater. But on a recent afternoon, he might have been tempted to smile a bit. Chloe Hawkey, a junior at Barnard College, was summarizing her research on attitudes toward slavery among Columbia’s early students.
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LSU Chancellor Fights Budget Cuts With Candor and Swagger
Louisiana politics is known for colorful personalities and big attitudes. It’s not usually the place where a guy with a doctorate in education policy makes a splash. But F. King Alexander, chancellor of the Louisiana State University system, is making a name for himself as an outspoken critic of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed budget, which recommends a mammoth 82-percent cut in higher education.
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How to Take the Perfect Nap
Michael Grandner of the Perelman School of Medicine suggest the ideal naptime is 20-30 minutes.
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Rolling Stone Rape Article Results in Defamation Suit
An associate dean at the University of Virginia filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday against Rolling Stone magazine, which she said portrayed her as the “chief villain” in a discredited article about a gang rape on the university’s campus. Nicole P. Eramo, an associate dean of students, is also suing the author of the article, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, and Rolling Stone’s parent company, Wenner Media.
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The Velociraptor Has a Cousin and It’s Even More Formidable
Doctoral candidate Steven Jasinski of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about studying a new dinosaur whose keen nose made it a formidable predator.
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Newly Discovered Raptor Species Could Easily Sniff Out Prey, Penn Scientist Finds
Doctoral candidate Steven Jasinski of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted for helping identify a new species of dinosaur.
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‘This Was Not a Dinosaur You Would Want to Mess With’
Doctoral candidate Steven Jasinski of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on identifying a new dinosaur species with a keen sense of smell.
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Critics Claim Boston University Is Racist, But They Don’t Agree If It’s Anti-Black or Anti-White
Boston University was already navigating a racially charged debate in the spring, with a well-known professor arguing that the school’s administration had “fostered a climate of hostility and discrimination against African Americans that is among the worst in the nation,” and calling on the head of the NAACP to cancel his commencement speech there next week. Then things went viral.
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Twitterstorm
Incoming professor makes controversial remarks about a group of people on Twitter. The university initially backs the professor’s right to free speech but quickly distances itself somewhat from said remarks. The case probably sounds familiar to anyone following free speech issues in higher education, but it’s not that of Steven Salaita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Asking Students to Bare It All
Art instruction -- which has long featured nude models -- is not the same as instruction in other subjects. But a complaint from the parent of a student at the University of California at San Diego has drawn attention to the pedagogy behind a course in which all students (and the professor) are naked for a class session.