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Harvard upstarts fall short in Board of Overseers vote

CAMBRIDGE – Five candidates for Harvard University's Board of Overseers who campaigned on a platform calling for free tuition and making admissions more transparent have come up short. On Monday, Harvard announced the five winning candidates who emerged from a field of 13. The new members include the president

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Leon Cooper: Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a side of neuroscience

Leon Cooper is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at Brown University and the director of its Institute for Brain and Neural Systems. Depending on whether you ask a physicist or a neuroscientist, you'll get very different answers on why Cooper is famous. The former will argue it is because

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GOP senator questions new Title IX policies

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican senator from the Sooner State may have just kicked the proverbial federal hornet's nest after questioning the legality of new Department of Education Title IX regulations and receiving an answer he claims shows that the new standards equate to "executive overreach."

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Brown University students overwhelmed by class, activism

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Students at Brown University are claiming that the combination of classwork and social activism is causing them mental anguish as they try to keep up with academics while maintaining a busy protest schedule, the Brown Daily Herald reported on February 18. David, an undergraduate student whose name

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Defying ‘hookup culture,’ some students work to restore romance

BOSTON – This Valentine's Day, some New England college students are working to save an endangered form of romantic relationship on their campuses – casual dating. With many students looking for intimacy through casual sexual encounters, some have been burned by the "hookup culture" that has evolved on

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Young, white Americans are addicted to this (and what Catholics should do about it)

Providence, R.I. (National Catholic Register) — When recent headlines marked a spike in drug overdoses for white, middle-class Americans, the news saddened but did not surprise Deacon Timothy Flanigan, an HIV specialist at Brown University medical school in Providence, R.I. Beyond the classroom, Flanigan has directed the HIV care

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Campuses erupt as students pursue racial grievances

PRINCETON, New Jersey – A student activist group at Princeton University calling itself "The Black Justice League" may have just dealt a fatal roundhouse blow to the school's longtime connection to Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the U.S. and the prestigious university's 13th

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Campus activists stir defenders of free speech

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Voices are emerging to counter the din raised on college campuses by self-styled social-justice advocates as students who don't accept the need for "safe spaces" defend free speech against activists who would muzzle peers to weed out "microaggressions." At Princeton University,