Schools keep censoring valedictorians. It often backfires — here's why they do it anyway.
5+ day ago —...The Los Angeles school said Asna Tabassum would not deliver her speech... ..., the director of Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project... ...He is also a former president of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland... ...It all started with one student, Asna Tabassum, who was selected...
How Columbia University became the epicenter of disagreement over the Israel-Hamas war
3+ day ago —...The Ivy League school’s lush campus on the Upper West Side of Manhattan... ...It even has a Donald Trump connection (Trump once called the university... ...Columbia University president testifies:Minouche Shafik fends off... ...The next morning, Shafik called in the New York City Police Department...
War in Gaza: 18 countries urge Hamas to free hostages
42+ min ago —..., Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal,... ...Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.... ...Carl Skau, the deputy executive director of the World Food Program... ...Northern Gaza is still heading toward famine because Israel hasn’...
MPs issue warning on Holocaust memorial project’s rising costs and security
14+ min ago —...about the rising costs of the project in Victoria Tower Gardens... ...The Holocaust Memorial Bill select committee also issued warnings... ...Richard Buxton, for the Buxton Family and Thomas Fowell Buxton Society... ...& Residents of Westminster; the Buxton Family & Thomas Fowell Buxton...
Israel says it is poised to move on Rafah
16+ hour, 2+ min ago —...company Maxar Technologies which showed tent camps on Khan Younis... ...and assault Hamas hold-outs in the southern Gaza Strip city, a senior... ...Sena Kalyan Business Mart (2nd floor), 218/C, Bir Uttam Mir Shawkat... ...Publisher: Rick Haque Sikder, Acting Editor: ASM A Khaleque....
Arrests at USC amid pro-Palestine protests nationwide; Southern California campus closed
1+ day ago —...on campus," USC's Department of Public Safety said in an alert to... ...Police arrested protesters Wednesday at the University of Southern... ...Contributing: John Bacon, Eduardo Cuevas, Jorge L.... ...of Texas in Austin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
College students across US face arrest over pro-Palestinian protests
2+ day, 48+ min ago —...charges of trespassing or disorderly conduct.... ...Columbia's president, Minouche Shafik, yesterday set a midnight deadline... ...Across the country, protesters at California State Polytechnic University... ...By late Monday at New York University, police said 133 protesters...
Tensions rise on UB campus over Israel-Hamas War
9+ hour, 48+ min ago —..., president of the UB Jewish Student Union.... ...UB Students for Justice in Palestine, like many other student groups... ...Students for Justice in Palestine, the organization organizing these... ...discrimination of any form.” 2 On Your Side did also reach out to UB...
Outside speakers axed from University of Southern California ceremony over valedictorian flap
6+ day ago —...King, National Endowment for the Arts chair Maria Rosario Jackson... ...and National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt.... ...Council on American-Islamic Relations Los Angeles branch.... ...Maideh Orangi told the Los Angeles Times....
When praying at a Jewish holy site is a crime
2+ hour, 40+ min ago —...”: Joseph’s Tomb (Nablus); Shalom Al Israel Synagogue (Jericho).”... ...Moshe Phillipsis a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear... ...The United Nations Security Council would have an emergency meeting... ...and its Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Deborah...