Duke University settled with the federal government and will have to repay $11 million in fake research grants.
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Duke University settled with the federal government and will have to repay $11 million in fake research grants.
George Washington University students voted to change their Colonials mascot, which is in the likeness of Founding Father and first American president George Washington, because it may not be inclusive enough.
A training at the University of North Georgia discussed what a “gender unicorn” is, or the gender spectrum, among other LGBTQ issues.
In what could have been a joke, a Georgetown University student claimed to be a member of a new “anti-abstinence” club at the private Catholic university in Washington, D.C. But, no such club existed in school records.
At Claremont Colleges in southern California, a transgender flag went missing and the Queer Resource Center believed it was a hate crime. But, it was returned a few days later and the center did not comment on who had returned it, saying it was a “misunderstanding.”
Apparently, the diets of white people are harming the earth more thanks to their diets’ impacts on climate change, according to a recent study.
An Australian study concluded that the term “cyclist” is dehumanizing and dangerous, based on a study of motorists on how they perceive cyclists in their daily lives.
Protesters disrupted a speech by Blackwater executive Erik Prince and forced organizers to cancel the speech, which the protesters called a victory for whatever they stood for.
Outspoken anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour recently spoke at NYU, pushing for people to vote for candidates who aren’t white.
UCLA has stalled a public records request for over 391 days, related to a visit to the campus by the Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. What is there to hide?