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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…
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UC-Berkeley menaced by anti-Semitic posters
The University of California, Berkeley (UCB) has been hit by a wave of posters denouncing Jews on campus as "bullies"…
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UMass dumping fossil fuels cheers greens but may prove costly
BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts became the first major public university system in America to completely divest fossil fuel-related investments, a…
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Obama admin: Colleges shouldn’t ask applicants about criminal records
The Obama administration is pressuring colleges to not include questions about criminal records on applications, and the country's largest application…
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Do we still dream the dream?
Every year, on Martin Luther King Day, NPR plays Dr. King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech from…
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Demands for ‘safe’ spaces lead to campus debates
NEWTON – While many Massachusetts campuses have become battlegrounds over acceptable forms of expression – such as what constitutes "hate speech" or…
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Yale should follow GE to Boston
Maybe Yale should move. That's the reaction of at least one Yale graduate, the Cato Institute's Walter Olson,…
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State law banning secret recording faces court challenge
BOSTON – Project Veritas, a guerilla journalism group known for taking undercover videos focusing a conservative eye on topics ranging from vote fraud…
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Divestment follies
Say something often enough — like "97 percent of climate scientists agree" — and people will tend to believe it. Add the…
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Dating has died at college, but this campaign hopes to revive it
Princeton, N.J. (CNA/EWTN News) — On a day marked by flowers, chocolate and romantic greeting cards, the Love and Fidelity Network…
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Colleges grapple with best ways to address race incidents
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger…
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The fantasy of the safe space
"In politics," said Nietzsche, "the professor plays the comic role." There was a time, on American college campuses,…
