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Academic Minute: Evolution and the Fear of Holes
In today’s Academic Minute, Arnold Wilkins of the University of Essex digs up the evolutionary origin of a strange phobia...
California Competes' Lawsuit Thrown Out
A California Superior Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit from California Competes, a nonprofit group that had challenged the...
Campus Security Guard Found Promoting Hate Online
The CBS Los Angeles affiliate revealed last week that Carlos Vazquez -- who works as a parking officer at the...
Rearguard Action Against Vague, Demanding Search Committees
Many aspiring faculty members complain that search committees ask for lots of information they will never use (or even look...
Report Details Financial Struggles of Boston Adjuncts
Service Employees International Union released a report Friday detailing the financial struggles of adjunct faculty at institutions across Boston, as...
Outrage Over Theme of Michigan Fraternity Party
University of Michigan students and administrators are denouncing the use of racial stereotypes in an invitation to a fraternity party...
Padding the Payroll for Federal Grants at U. of Oregon
The University of Oregon has discovered that some employees working on federal grants padded their pay by putting in for...
Promoting Safe Kissing at Stanford
"Full Moon on the Quad" is a tradition at Stanford University in which students kiss one another at midnight on...