Rutgers University’s president will step down at the end of the academic year after leading the top New Jersey university during a brief tenure plagued by the pandemic and pro-Palestinian protests and encampments on campus. Jonathan Holloway, 57, who became the first Black president of Rutgers when he took office in the summer of 2020, said he will leave office …
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A Rutgers Law School student who mounted a counter-protest against anti-Israel demonstrators on campus was arrested by police after he refused to stop posting flyers that labeled Hamas as “savages.” Yiorgos “George” Maravelias, a disabled veteran who previously served as a United States Army First Lieutenant and deployed to Afghanistan, first engaged in campus activism in November 2023. He told …
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The U.S. Navy on Monday will begin to defend its use of race as an admissions factor at the Naval Academy after a Supreme Court case overturning affirmative action left a carve out for service academies. The same group that brought the case to end affirmative action to the Supreme Court’s attention, Students for Fair Admissions, brought a case against …
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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Or, in our case, the man ahead of you at the finish line. That’s what girls all over the country are being told when they participate in sports, whether it’s track and field or team-based sports like soccer. That’s what Madi was told as a cross-country runner when she attended Idaho …
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Graduation season can be bittersweet for a lot of seniors, but many of the 2024 graduates of Newtown High School in Connecticut are carrying a heavier burden. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School shook the nation as one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history on Dec. 14, 2012, according to the Associated Press (AP). During the incident, …
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President Biden’s student loan handouts, a campaign priority for the Democrat incumbent, received approval from just 30% of Americans, according to the results of a new national poll released on Tuesday. Three in 10 U.S. adults say they approve of how Biden has handled the issue of student loan debt, while 4 in 10 disapprove, a new poll from the …
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Many NFL players have attended Ivy League schools before beginning their careers as professional players. This list of former NFL players who have received an Ivy League education includes Super Bowl champions, Hall of Famers and record holders. Here are 13 NFL players who attended Ivy League schools before joining the professional league. Chuck Bednarik and Matt Birk were two …
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Four university tutors from Iowa were stabbed by an assailant in an attack at a public park in China on Monday, according to Chinese and U.S. government officials. A suspect is now in custody, Chinese officials said. A Chinese person who sought to intervene was also stabbed, according to police. The educators from Iowa’s Cornell College were attacked during a …
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DePaul University says it has fired a part-time biology professor after she gave an optional assignment to students last month asking them to write about the impact of “genocide in Gaza on human health and biology.” An investigation into the assignment offered by Anne d’Aquino “found it had negatively affected the learning environment by introducing extraneous political material that was …
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College professors are using the careers and lives of celebrities in their teachings. College courses based on celebrities aren’t exactly a new idea. More commonly in recent years, college professors have put together their own unique courses revolving around a particular celebrity. Taylor Swift, for example, has had numerous college classes focused around her lyrics, songs, fandom and overall fame. …
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