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Cambridge

African art show opens at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery

CAMBRIDGE – Walking into the gallery located off Brattle Square in Cambridge, a visitor immediately confronts a doll-like female figurine, but one that sports wings and is missing a head. Yinka Shonibare's Food Faerie, adorned in brightly colored fabric and holding a pack of peaches on her back, seems

Burlington

University of Vermont to hold another ‘white privilege’ student retreat

BURLINGTON, Vt. — For the second year in a row, the University of Vermont will be spending taxpayer dollars on a retreat aimed at helping white students grapple with the privileges associated with being white. The school noted on its website that it's "excited to announce Examining White

Harvard University

Harvard seeks dismissal of lawsuit over sex assault case

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University is refusing to settle with a female graduate who accused the Ivy League institution of failing to follow federal rules on handling allegations of sexual assault in a bombshell federal lawsuit brought against the school in February. In a recent court filing, Harvard lawyers not only signaled

Yale

Yale students demand end to ‘hostile’ English Lit courses

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The latest social-justice crusade bubbling up among "oppressed" undergraduates at prestigious Yale University comes in the form of a student petition asserting that a "Major English Poets" curriculum requirement features too many major poets from England who are white and male. The petition

Cambridge

Harvard professors join chorus against club leadership ban

CAMBRIDGE – The drumbeat questioning the decision to punish Harvard College students who join single-sex social organizations is growing louder as a growing number of faculty and alumni and even a former university president have opposed the move. This week, 12 Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors fired off a denunciation

black lives matter

Dartmouth students demand end to coddling, focus on learning

HANOVER, N.H. – Alleging that Dartmouth College administrators have increasingly "assumed the role of paternalistic babysitters," students at the Ivy League institution have launched an online petition that aims to refocus the school on education and the free exchange of ideas. The "Take Back Dartmouth" petition,

Massachusetts

Asian-American Lin to head national campus Christian group

MADISON, Wisc. – One of the nation's leading organizations serving Christian college students has named Tom Lin its next leader. He will become InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA's first Asian-American president in August. Lin, 43, will take over InterVarsity, an evangelical organization, as it enters its 75th year

campus life

Campus ‘safe zone’ ban signed into law by Ariz. Gov. Ducey

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a measure Monday opening all state college and university campuses to unfettered speech, ending a policy of establishing specific zones where people can speak freely. "The First Amendment right of free speech is a bedrock founding principle of our republic," Ducey, a