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Graduate Defends Orientation Program Accused of ‘Hazing’

SUNY Albany graduate, Chrisel Martinez, defends allegations that a summer orientation program at the school sanctions various forms of hazing.

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Some North Dakota State Students Say They Were Discouraged from Voting

BISMARCK, N.D. ― Election officials are looking into reports that some North Dakota State University students were discouraged from voting at an early voting site on the Fargo campus. Freshman Phoebe Ellis, 18, of Beldenville, Wisconsin, said she and others were told by an unknown person at the Fargodome that voting could threaten their financial […]

University of Wisconsin Student Leaders Condemn Response to Noose Costume

MADISON, Wis. ― University of Wisconsin-Madison student leaders are condemning the response to a man who wore an offensive costume to a football game. The man wore what appeared to be a President Barack Obama mask with a noose around its neck to the Oct. 29 game against Nebraska. Security officers asked him to remove […]

Last University Furls Mississippi’s Confederate-themed Flag

JACKSON, Miss. ― The last of Mississippi’’s eight public universities has stopped displaying the state flag that prominently features the Confederate battle emblem. Delta State University President Bill LaForge announced the decision Thursday. He said the university acted because state government hasn’t moved to change the flag. The university called for a different state banner […]

Vandals Deface University of Minnesota’s Muslim Students Association Sign

MINNEAPOLIS ― Vandals defaced a sign promoting the University of Minnesota’s Muslim Students Association. Someone scrawled “ISIS” over a hand-painted mural on a bridge connecting the east and west banks of the Twin Cities campus. The acronym is a reference to the Islamic State group. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is […]

African-American

University of Oregon Professor Who Donned Blackface at Party Apologizes

EUGENE, Ore. ― A University of Oregon law professor who donned blackface as part of a doctor costume at her Halloween party has apologized, saying she only wanted to stimulate dialogue about race relations in America. Nancy Shurtz said in an apology released Friday that she wore a white coast, stethoscope and black face paint […]

For Rolling Stone, ‘Worst Nightmare’ Continues

RICHMOND, Va. ― Days after Rolling Stone magazine published a shocking 9,000-word story about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia in November 2014, the magazine’s editors received an email just before 2 a.m. with “Our worst nightmare” in the subject line. They needed to run a retraction, the reporter said. Instead, Rolling […]

Faculty & Staff

Alabama State University President Gwendolyn Boyd Says Suspension ‘Disappointing’

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ― The Alabama State University Board of Trustees has voted to suspend President Gwendolyn Boyd, saying it had lost confidence in her. WSFA-TV reports that Boyd called the events that led to her suspension Friday “disappointing” and said she was surprised by the developments. When asked if she thinks she’ll ever be ASU’s […]

Diversity Ensures Today’s Campuses Not Your Grandparents’ Universities

Maybe the demographics of our universities have changed so dramatically that students and the colleges they attend are ill-prepared to cope with diversity.

Kenyon R. Bonner

Eastern Michigan Students Protest After More Anti-Black Graffiti Found

YPSILANTI, Mich. ― Students at Eastern Michigan University protested with a rally and sit-in on Wednesday after more racist graffiti was discovered on campus this week. Students marched late Tuesday and gathered at the EMU Student Center on the school’s Ypsilanti campus, with some participating in a sit-in early Wednesday. Participants said they dispersed after […]

Ex-Baylor Official Says She was Told to not Put Anything in Writing

WACO, Texas ― The former Title IX coordinator at Baylor University says that a top school official told her to never put anything in writing after she sent him a 16-page memo detailing her concerns that her authority and support were still being compromised even as the university had indicated it was trying to make […]

Union Vote Set for Columbia Teaching and Research Assistants

NEW YORK ― Columbia University graduate teaching and research assistants will vote next month on whether to form a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers. The vote on Dec. 7 and 8 comes after the National Labor Relations Board ruled in August that graduate students at private universities have a right to unionize. Civil […]

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