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...study was conducted by David R. Colburn, a history professor at the University of Florida; Victor M. Yellen, a former director of institutional research at Florida; and Charles E. Young, professor and former chancellor of UCLA. The trio looked at enrollment data from the University of California??s Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego campuses, as well as the University of Florida and the University of Texas at Austin. All three schools ended affirmative action during the period under examination, after state-wide laws banned the policy, the study says. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Asian...
Students at three universities went on strike this week to advocate for a variety of causes—including increasing curricular diversity, reducing student fees, and halting environmentally-unsound campus construction. Protests at Columbia University, the University of California??-Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst echo events at Harvard last May, when members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) fasted to influence university security guards’ contract negotiations. But while students across the country lobby for different changes and interests, most are met with little or slow change. According to the Daily...
Playing a little “Hotel California?? on his acoustic guitar during an interview with The Crimson, Lipton was modest about the band’s recent national success...
...changes rather dramatically for all participants.” Sovereign wealth funds allow states to invest their savings in private markets. “Unchecked, this could be the ultimate insider-trading tool,” Cox added. Before he became chairman of the SEC in 2005, Cox represented California??s 48th district in the House of Representatives, most recently chairing the Committee on Homeland Security. Before that, he served as senior associate counsel to the president from 1986 to 1988, representing Ronald Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal. While Cox, who received degrees from Harvard Business School...
...criticized apathetic students several times, particularly those he came in contact with during shooting on University of Southern California??s campus. “I saw some real assholes at USC,” he said...