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  • Students Today Should Read More Nonfiction

    Students Today Should Read More Nonfiction1

    I’m going to say something that’s heresy to many people today: I’m not a big fan of novels. Mind you, I don’t celebrate this fact. In his Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis noted that he didn’t care for the company of small children, but he considered this a fault in himself. I have an analogous

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  • Students Skeptical of Value of College Degrees

    Students Skeptical of Value of College Degrees0

    It’s graduation season and many high school seniors are counting the hours until they can walk across the stage and turn the corner toward college and career. But as a new survey out of the United Kingdom suggests, those graduates are likely to be less bright-eyed and full of hope than graduates before them. Many

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  • Students Seek ‘Non-White’ Roommate

    Students Seek ‘Non-White’ Roommate0

    Racial harmony, ever-elusive in American history, is proving difficult in modern America, too. Consider this story from the Claremont Independent: A group of students at the Claremont Colleges are in search of a roommate for next year, but insist that the roommate not be white. Karé Ureña (PZ ’18) posted on Facebook that non-white students

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  • Students Reject Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy Mentality

    Students Reject Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy Mentality0

    Many have fallen prey to the everyone-gets-a-trophy mentality in recent years. After all, one must never hurt the feelings of precious little flowers who might not be as talented as their peers! One of the latest victims bitten by this bug is the revered Cambridge University in Great Britain. According to The Telegraph, Cambridge’s tradition

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  • Students Increasingly Are Pursuing Degrees with Better Job Prospects, Data Show

    Students Increasingly Are Pursuing Degrees with Better Job Prospects, Data Show0

    When it comes to employment data, most economists and commentators today mainly concentrate on the unemployment rate. Many seem to ignore another important measure: the underemployment rate. The Federal Reserve of New York defines the underemployment rate as “the share of graduates working in jobs that typically do not require a college degree.” Underemployment and

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  • Students in Turkey Value Free Speech Way More than American Students

    Students in Turkey Value Free Speech Way More than American Students0

    Several weeks ago, many in the U.S. were rather disturbed when protestors at UC Berkeley were able to shut out controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking on campus. As CNN reported: “More than 1,500 protesters had gathered at Sproul Plaza, chanting and holding signs that read: ‘No safe space for racists’ and ‘This is war.’

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