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Obama's first college is latest to end legacy admissions

A California college where President Barack Obama started his undergraduate studies will no longer give special treatment to the children of alumni

The Independent UK

US Education Dept opens probe into Harvard’s legacy admissions

A complaint earlier this month triggered the investigation, which will consider whether the practice is discriminatory.

Al Jazeera

Harvard faces Education Department civil rights investigation over legacy admissions

Federal probe follows complaint into ‘discriminatory’ admissions process for alumni family and donors

The Independent UK

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40 human skulls found in Kentucky apartment linked to national network of body part dealers

The alleged theft of donated body parts from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary is revealing a national network of human remains dealers.

LiveScience

Up First briefing: Climate worsens heat waves; Israel protests; Emmett Till monument

A study finds climate change is making heat waves worse. Protests erupted in Israel after the government passed a law to weaken its judiciary. Biden will designate a national monument for Emmett Till.

WEKU

With affirmative action gone, states have a duty to eliminate inequity in public schools

Illinois, for instance, has over-relied on local property taxes to fund K-12 education, effectively tying educational quality to local property wealth that is markedly lower in segregated Black communities.

Chicago Sun-Times

Planet-friendly diet could reduce risk of disease death by a quarter – research

Scientists found those who followed a more sustainable diet were 25% less likely to die of cancer or other chronic diseases.

The Independent UK

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Ryan Donato ready to ‘fill whatever role necessary’ with Blackhawks

While bouncing from the Bruins to Wild to Sharks to Kraken, Donato has gained a versatility that appealed to the Hawks in free agency this summer. He has maintained steady offensive production, too.

Chicago Sun-Times

Economics website is filled with racist and sexist speech, some blame top universities in cities like Chicago, Boston

New research indicates that users of the website Economics Job Market Rumors include individuals at top-tier colleges and universities, including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago, and many others.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hate speech posted on economics website is traced to leading universities, research finds

Anonymous comments with racist, sexist and abusive messages that were posted for years on an an obscure, anonymous jobs-related website for economists originated from numerous leading U.S. universities, according to research released Thursday

The Independent UK

A Flawed "Popular Constitutionalist" Rationale for Disobeying Supreme Court Decisions

Harvard law Prof. Mark Tushnet and political scientist Aaron Belkin urge President Biden to disobey "gravely mistaken" Supreme Court rulings. Doing so would set a dangerous precedent likely to be abused by the right, as well as the left.

Reason

SCOTUS strikes down student debt cancellation plan, takes up case on agency enforcement authority

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

Ballotpedia

Is it OK to use the word ‘homeless’ – or should you say ‘unhoused’?

The use of the term unhoused has grown exponentially in the last few years, and those who have adopted it say it emphasizes a lack of affordable housing

The Guardian - US

Wesleyan University becomes latest school to end legacy admissions

Wesleyan University in Connecticut has become the latest school to end a policy of giving preferential treatment in admissions to those whose families have historical ties to the school

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Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Affirmative action is banned — except at military academies? Why that won’t help students

With a conservative majority on the bench, the recent Supreme Court ruling to strike down affirmative action was widely expected. One unexpected twist, however, was an inconspicuous footnote exempting military academies from the drastic change.

LiveScience

Half-billion-year-old fossil of strange Cambrian creature gives evolutionary clues about vertebrates

The fossil of an ancient sea squirt found in a collection at the Utah Museum of Natural History turned out to be the oldest of its kind.

Fortune

Harvard scientists have identified a drug combo that may reverse aging in just one week: ‘A step towards affordable whole-body rejuvenation'

The “chemical cocktail” helped reverse aging in mice, but some experts are skeptical about whether it will work in humans.

The Conversation

They Eat Our Sweat - new book exposes daily struggles of transport workers in Lagos

Daniel E. Agbiboa’s book They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria explores the world of drivers of minibuses (danfo) and motorcycles (okada) in Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria. Agbiboa is assistant professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. His research…

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Salon

The next campus battle: Legacy admission

Lawyers for Civil Rights' Oren Sellstrom explains how vital evidence revealed in the Havard case can now be used

Tribune News Service

Editorial: It's time to end legacy admissions

When the U.S. Supreme Court recently voted to strike down affirmative action admissions programs at colleges and universities, it turned a spotlight on another system that has slid under the radar for far too long and also advantages some students over others on factors other than merit.

The Independent UK

An AP explainer on recent arrests in alleged human remains network

Federal investigators discovered a human remains trade with connections to Harvard Medical School and have arrested people in several states

Boston Herald

‘Grim Reaper’: Harvard Medical School faces 2 more lawsuits over alleged human body parts trafficking ring

BOSTON — One of two new lawsuits filed against Harvard in the wake of bombshell allegations a morgue employee was stealing and selling body parts donated to the university’s medical school reveals the employee may have identified as the “Grim Reaper.”

Salon

How dead is "dead enough"?

Your loved one checked the box to be an organ donor at the DMV. Now they're dead. What happens?

Miami Herald

Greg Cote: 100-plus deaths later, why can’t we finally end bizarre culture of college & sports hazing?

MIAMI — Asinine. Juvenile. Unnecessary. Archaic. Embarrassing. Dumb. Humiliating. Dangerous.

The Independent UK

Man found with 40 human skulls and spinal cords ‘decorating’ his home, court filings say

FBI agents asked suspect James Nott if anyone was in the house, to which he replied: ‘Only my dead friends’

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