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On College Applications, the Questions Some Say Shouldn’t Be Asked
They seem simple enough requests amid the many details that college applicants divulge: Check here if you’ve ever faced disciplinary action at school. Check here if you’ve been convicted of a crime. But there’s actually nothing simple about it, student activists and civil rights groups say. These boxes, they say, end up turning unfair disciplinary and judicial practices into roadblocks to college for far too many students of color.
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After Palestine Talk, Harvard Donor Stops Sponsoring Events
A major backer of Harvard Law School has stopped sponsoring student events after its donation helped pay for a discussion supporting an independent Palestine. In 2012, the international law firm Milbank promised Harvard $1 million over five years to pay for scholarly conferences organized by law students. But after the money was used to support an event hosted by the student group Justice for Palestine, the law firm asked Harvard Law School to use the money for other purposes. Calls to Milbank's New York headquarters weren't returned this week.
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Hazing Allegations Investigated in Buffalo State Student’s Death
The authorities in western New York are investigating whether fraternity hazing played a role in the death of a 21-year-old Buffalo State College student from Brooklyn, the college said on Friday. The student, Bradley Doyley, died on Thursday night in a Buffalo hospital, the college’s president, Katherine S. Conway-Turner, said in a statement. The authorities did not disclose the nature of Mr. Doyley’s death, but The Buffalo News reported that he had been hospitalized after falling ill in January while he was trying to join the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
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The Next Ann Coulter
In a packed auditorium Wednesday, several students at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities interrupted ultradivisive conservative writer and speaker Milo Yiannopoulos with blaring air horns. Outside, more student protesters held signs reading “End rape culture” and “Rape culture is not a myth.” At another event several days earlier, students at Rutgers University smeared faux blood on their faces while Yiannopoulos spoke, shouting, “This man represents hatred.” And those were the events Yiannopoulos (at right) made it to.
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New Chinese Rules on Foreign Films’ Online Content
Jacques deLisle of the Law School comments on how new Chinese laws on the online content of foreign films is a way to “restrict the influence of foreign or western ideas.”
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‘Girls, I’m on Your Team’: Caitlyn Jenner Speaks at Penn
An interview with Caitlyn Jenner, hosted by SPEC, is featured.
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Analysis - Puerto Rico May Have Better Chance of Supreme Court Win After Scalia Death
David Skeel of the Law School is quoted.
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U.S. Medical Schools Are Faulted for Failing to Report Results of Human Trials
Only about 29 percent of completed medical trials conducted at major American academic centers lead to published or reported results within two years, according to one of the most detailed analyses of the problem. The findings, published on Wednesday in BMJ, suggest that universities and their funders still are falling well short on a major yardstick of open science and of responsibility to participating patients. "The academic institutions are doing very little about this — nothing, in fact," said a lead author, Harlan M. Krumholz, a professor of medicine at Yale University.
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How the Sides Line Up in the Apple Encryption Fight
Matt Blaze of the School of Engineering and Applied Science shares his skepticism of commentators who suggest that it is easy to develop a new operating system that the FBI requires.
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Bleary-eyed Doctors May Be Better for Patients
David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School co-authors an article about the length of physician shifts and whether or not that impacts their ability to treat patients.