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CAMBRIDGE – The latest call by students at Harvard University for the school to purge terms or symbols deemed offensive by a vocal minority raises what could be a confounding issue: How far will the 379-year-old school go to distance itself from historic figures whose actions and social values we would
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CAMBRIDGE – While universities nationwide have made headlines for their crackdown on "microaggressions" and their creation of "safe spaces" away from offensive conversation, some Massachusetts college students think their peers are being overly sensitive. Harvard University sophomore Rachel Huebner, an editorial writer for the Crimson student newspaper,
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Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He recently wrote an article titled "The hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze." Students, often with the blessing of faculty, have discovered that names for campus buildings and holidays do not always
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PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Kristen Coke and Jameil Brown enrolled at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs at Princeton University not knowing much about the school's namesake aside from his oft-touted positive accomplishments, from the changes he made as the university's president
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NEW YORK – Columbia University students cannot be "too politically correct," according to Avegail Muñoz, a first-year student who says that it is "simply not fair" that others object when she complains about what she perceives as "hateful biases." Muñoz, a self-described "queer, multiracial
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Each holiday season, it seems Americans find themselves immersed in what some commentators describe as a "War on Christmas." From bans of Christmas trees in some public squares to viral videos decrying "secular" red Starbucks cups, the debate has become a holiday tradition all its own.
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