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CAMBRIDGE — A recently released report by a Harvard University sexual assault task force takes aim at the school's elite all-male Final Clubs, the fraternity-like social organizations that operate off-campus, blaming them for a climate of sexual assault on campus. In pointing the finger at the Final Clubs, the
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BOSTON (AP) — Students from MIT and Britain's University of Cambridge will spend the weekend hacking one another's computers, with the blessing of their national leaders. The two schools are competing in a hacking contest that U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron
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A recent report by Investor's Business Daily documents the disturbing trend in American higher education away from teaching the great works of Western civilization and toward the teaching of many disciplines through the eyes of the oppressed. As an example, the report points to the University of California
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When it comes to undergraduate higher education, American women outpace their male counterparts, including at area colleges. In 2012, women on campus outnumbered men 57 percent to 43 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In 2014, American women nationwide between the ages 25 to 34 were 20
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College leaders spend a lot of time talking about the need for diversity on campus. They want to make sure that different races, ethnicities, religions, and sexual orientations are represented. To some extent, this makes sense: Colleges are supposed to expose students to a variety of perspectives. It helps to
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Most governors, state commissioners of education, state boards of education, and Chambers of Commerce seem to have an unshakable confidence in Common Core's standards as the silver bullet that will make all K-12 students college and career ready. This confidence is remarkable for two reasons. First, Common Core&
brave new world
In Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel "Brave New World," sex is nothing more than a conditioned, physical interaction between two consenting adults. People are pre-conditioned from a young age to believe that "everyone belongs to everyone else," and concepts like commitment and monogamy are
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There's an idea taking root on college campuses that students cannot be exposed to any ideas, words or phrases that discomfort them in any way, even if that wasn't anyone's intent. That's why schools are embracing "trigger warnings" — warnings placed
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