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Steven B. Chesbro and John Garland say that African-American candidates for admission to the university as well as faculty positions were given preference. Alabama State UniversityScreenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Two white faculty members at Alabama State University have filed a lawsuit against the school in which they claim that ASU discriminates against whites in its hiring…
The Columbia Journalism School has published their report on what went wrong in Rolling Stone‘s article on rape at UVA last year. The long and damning investigation concludes: Rolling Stone‘s repudiation of the main narrative in “A Rape on Campus” is a story of journalistic failure that was avoidable. The failure encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision…
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia said Monday that it is moving forward with a possible lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine in the wake of the now-retracted “Rape on Campus” article. “After 130 days of living under a cloud of suspicion as a result of reckless reporting by Rolling Stone magazine,…
Students at Columbia University are fretting over the arrest of a fellow undergraduate accused of dealing drugs on campus. The alleged dealer was an active user of Venmo, a mobile app for sending money to people, and on Venmo, transactions are public by default. Yes, even drug transactions. Much of his activity has since been removed or…
Photo Credit Wesley Allsbrook IN 1997, I was sexually assaulted by a fellow student at the University of Virginia. At a closed hearing, the university’s committee on sexual assault found him responsible. His punishment? A letter in his file. It’s not clear how many women have won their cases through the university’s system since they…
BOULDER, Colo. — ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed. These radical cuts forced universities to raise tuition year after year, which in turn forced the…
google_ad_section_start A memorial outside the Tulane University School of Law on February 2, 2015. Student Sara LaMont was allegedly shot … Late last November, as Tulane’s campus was winding down for Thanksgiving break, University President Michael Fitts sat on an airplane, reading through a sheaf of documents. In his hectic first year on the job,…
It was “rape week,” which is what law students across the country jokingly call the section of introductory criminal law class that covers sexual violence. Julia, a public defender who was then at George Washington University Law School, watched as her professor asked a male law student to answer questions from the perspective of a…
Attending America’s “dream school” is a financial nightmare. New York University, routinely described by American high schoolers and their parents as one of their top “dream schools,” is one of the most popular application choices for aspiring college students. According to the university’s admissions department, 60,322 people applied for admission to NYU’s Class of 2019, a…
Incoming NYU students can expect to shell out roughly $71,000 for tuition and expenses next year. An awful lot of that money is going to pay for administrators, President John Sexton’s Fire Island beach house, and the pricey Manhattan real estate the university is sucking up like a satanic vacuum. So where will they find…