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Conservative Think Tank Puts Pressure on North Carolina’s Colleges
The John William Pope Foundation has been generous to the University of North Carolina. In 2011, for example, the foundation gave $3 million to help renovate the football stadium on the Chapel Hill campus — enough money to put Pope’s name on the academic-support center for athletes.
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Va. Attorney General Offers to Help Sweet Briar Opponents Reach a Compromise
Within hours of the unexpected announcement last month that Sweet Briar College would close forever this summer, people began fighting the board’s decision. By this week, those efforts had led to three lawsuits simultaneously challenging the closure, one being appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court.
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St. Joe’s Suspends Softball Team Play Amid Hazing Investigation
St. Joseph’s University has suspended play for its women’s varsity softball team for the rest of the season following an internal investigation into hazing allegations. The team has three games remaining in the season. It’s unclear whether the team would have made post-season play.
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Suits From the Accused
He described the night as a consensual, Ecstasy-fueled threesome. She described it as a sexual assault. Reed College agreed with the female student’s version of the events, in which she said she was coerced into having the encounter, and kicked the male student off campus.
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University, Research Center Team Up to Take on Hepatitis B
The College of Liberal and Professional Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for partnering with the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute to allow graduate students to work in the Institute’s laboratories to develop treatments for hepatitis B and liver cancer.
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Penn Senior Wins $100K to Build Clinic and School in His Ghana Village
Senior Shadrack Frimpong of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured as one of the 2015 recipients of a President’s Engagement Prize and for his plans to open a community clinic and girls’ school in Ghana.
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New Survey Finds Campus Assaults Less Than Thought
A new survey of young Americans by Harvard's Institute of Politics casts doubt on the widely repeated statistic that one in five women in college is a victim of sexual assault. The one-in-five figure comes from a survey conducted in 2007 for the Justice Department at two large public universities, one in the Midwest and the other in the South.
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Finals Looming, Rutgers Scrambles to Respond to Ongoing Online Attacks
With final exams looming, Rutgers University said Thursday evening it was working with federal and state law enforcement to investigate ongoing attacks on its online systems. The distributed denial-of-service attacks began around 10 a.m. Monday, the second such attack on Rutgers’ systems in less than a month.
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Study: Far Fewer New Teachers Are Leaving the Profession Than Previously Thought
Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences comments on his previous estimates about teacher attrition.
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Riots Are Destructive, Dangerous, and Scary – but Can Lead to Serious Social Reforms
Thomas Sugrue of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “There’s a long memory of historical injustice – going back to slave patrols, to police officers enforcing racial segregation and arresting nonviolent protestors, and the commonplace tension, conflict, and harassment directed at African-Americans by law enforcem