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More information has been revealed about the admissions scandal at the University of Illinois, in which top officials at the flagship school are accused of accepting applicants at the intervention of politicians and prominent donors... The new details include the names of politicians involved, how many requests were made and how successful the applicants were after the intervention. The subpar applicants often had connections to major donors of the politicians’ campaigns, the newspaper reported... More
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"The goal of Israel Apartheid Week is to paint Israel as an apartheid state, when in fact, it is the only successful thriving democracy in the Middle East."
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Reforming college tuition has become a major theme for the president's re-election campaign.
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In an essay in Time, Heather MacDonald explains how racial preferences work against the very people they are supposed to help: A body of empirical research has emerged showing that racial preferences can hurt their purported beneficiaries by catapulting them into schools for which they are inadequately prepared. Placed in classrooms pitched above their current level of knowledge, they learn less than they would if they were among peers whose academic skills more closely mirror their own... More
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That's the title of a new paper written by two Law professors at Emory University. They argue that deans of law schools may have committed felonies by providing false information about their programs.
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"Some would say that you Rickrolled us."