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Browns in hot pursuit of 2024 NFL draft offensive linemen at NFL Scouting Combine

The Browns have had a handful of confirmed meetings with offensive linemen at the NFL Scouting Combine.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Penn Entertainment vs. DraftKings: Which Sports Betting Stock is a Better Buy?

As the sports betting market heats up ahead of March Madness, both Penn Entertainment and DraftKings present potential buy-the-dip opportunities after their latest earnings reports. But which stock is a better buy at current levels?

Barchart

‘Stolen and disrespected’: museum inters 200-year-old remains of Black Philadelphians

Bones had been used to provide disproven scientific justification for white supremacy before being housed in the Penn Museum

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How to watch NCAA gymnastics — live stream Olivia Dunne and LSU Tigers online from anywhere

With social media sensation Livvy Dunne lighting up this year's tournament, we explain how to watch the LSU Tigers and all other teams in the 2024 NCAA women's gymnastics.

Tom’s Guide

Ackman Harvard attack backfires on wife

"It certainly appears that the focus was never really about antisemitism and protecting students," scholar says

Salon

Jewish students sue Harvard over charges of antisemitism

Plaintiffs accuse the university of tolerating harassment, assault and intimidation of Jewish students

The Guardian - US

Lawsuit filed against Harvard, accusing it of violating the civil rights of Jewish students

Several Jewish students have filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of tolerating antisemitism that has resulted in them being intimidated, harassed and assaulted

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Yale management professor: ‘Harvard’s board is guilty of 5 key failures. Here’s how to avoid repeating them’

'Being the home of case studies, perhaps Harvard is not used to being their subject,' writes Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

Fortune

Massachusetts Institute of Technology forced into spotlight After Harvard, Penn presidents ousted

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has long stood apart from America’s elite universities.

The Times of India

Why does Claudine Gay still work at Harvard after being forced to resign as its president? She's got tenure

Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned on Jan. 2, 2024, less than one month after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill stepped down. They called it quits amid uproar among conservative lawmakers and several major donors regarding what they saw as Gay’s and Magill’s underwhelming responses to antisemitism on their…

The Conversation

Second administration official resigns in protest of Biden's support for Israeli war in Gaza

A Department of Education policy adviser has resigned to protest the administration’s military support of Israel’s war in Gaza, as well as its handling of fallout from the war at home and abroad

The Independent UK

Powerful donors managed to push out Harvard’s Claudine Gay. But at what cost?

Not until now have major donors so brazenly used their financial influence to hound presidents out of office

The Guardian - US

Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism scandal

Harvard President Claudine Gay's resignation amid plagiarism allegations and controversial testimony. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik celebrates, calling it l...

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Purdue Remains at Top, Gonzaga Drops in AP Basketball Poll

Boiler up! Purdue remains at the top of the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll, while Gonzaga takes a tumble. Find out who's rising and falling in thi...

Reason

October 7: A Turning Point for Free Speech?

Restricting speech about the world's most pressing problems does not make them go away, nor does it settle any disputes.

The Conversation

What do universities owe their big donors? Less than you might think, explain 2 nonprofit law experts

Exchanging gifts with family and friends can become fraught with contradictory emotions. Instead of gratitude, the recipients of expensive gifts may wind up feeling indebted to the givers. And the givers can have regrets too.

The Independent UK

GOP lawmakers block $33.5m to Penn University veterinary school in antisemitism row

Republicans withhold funding accounting 18 per cent Penn‘s veterinary school budget

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The Independent UK

GOP lawmakers sink aid to Penn as statehouses watch how universities are handling Israel-Hamas war

Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are rejecting legislation to send more than $35 million to the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school over criticism that the Ivy League school has tolerated antisemitism

Salon

Students left silenced by speech debates

It may seem nonsensical to say that calls for genocide are protected speech but colleges are in a tough spot

Reason

University Presidential Testimony Fallout

I have a new piece at The Dispatch on the antisemitism hearing in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the poor performance of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and MIT. From the piece: The presidents' bad hand in the hearings did not stem…

Roll Call

House OKs measure seeking university presidents’ ouster - Roll Call

Nuanced answers by elite university presidents at a House hearing on antisemitism led to a resolution calling for their ouster.

The Independent UK

UPenn reveals interim president after Liz Magill’s ouster over antisemitism row

Liz Magill resigned over the weekend following her controversial testimony before Congress about antisemitism on college campuses

The Independent UK

Why a billionaire set out to topple the heads of America’s top schools

The hedge-fund billionaire has allied with right-wing activists and Republicans in Congress to pressure universities, but some students and faculty say he’s gone too far, Josh Marcus reports

The Guardian - US

Academic freedom is the loser when big donors hound US university presidents

The leaders of Harvard, Penn and MIT should have clearly condemned calls for genocide but the response has been almost as repugnant

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