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Washington (AFP) - The latest battle in the culture wars cleaving American society centers around diversity programs on university campuses, now restricted or banned in a growing number of US states. The debate pits those on the left, who advocate for boosting minority students victimized by deep-rooted inequality, and those on the right who say people should be judged on individual merit, not skin color. "The idea of present discrimination being the remedy for past discrimination... is inherently wrong," said Jordan Pace, a Republican member of the House of Representatives in the state of Sou...
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Washington (AFP) - The president of Harvard University on Wednesday faced criticism and calls for her resignation over her comments at a Capitol Hill hearing on campus anti-Semitism. The deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas militants has ignited tensions on many American college campuses, with protests flaring. At Harvard, donors have specifically called for President Claudine Gay to offer more explicit support for Israel, and condemnation of student groups who have voiced support for the Palestinian people. On Tuesday, Gay testified before the House Education Committee at a hearing dedic...
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Washington (AFP) - If the US Supreme Court had not overruled President Joe Biden's program to cancel billions of dollars in student debt, Satra D. Taylor, who borrowed $40,000 to complete her studies, could have seen that amount reduced by half. Now the 27-year-old -- who used the loan to study at the University of Michigan, supplementing a scholarship and other financial aid -- is back on the hook for the whole sum. "We created this unjust, inequitable, expensive, higher education system and so we need to redress it," she told AFP, standing before the high court. Biden's forgiveness program w...
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Washington (AFP) - A young man accused of killing four university students in a stabbing rampage that shocked America declined to speak as he was arraigned Monday, leaving the judge to enter a plea of not guilty. Bryan Kohberger, 28, went before a judge in the small Idaho town of Moscow, where the killings took place in November in an attack that drew multiple theories from internet sleuths as to who did it. At the time Kohberger was studying for a doctorate degree in criminology at Washington State University, which is just miles away from Moscow. The charges against Kohberger are that he dro...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden's effort to cancel close to $400 billion in student debt appeared under threat Tuesday in a hearing at the conservative-dominated US Supreme Court. A majority of the justices indicated in arguments presented Tuesday that they believe Biden exceeded his powers by adopting the costly program without specific authorization from Congress. Their eventual ruling in the case brought by conservative states could have a huge impact on millions of US households stuck paying for university costs years and even decades after finishing their education. Chief Justice J...
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Washington (AFP) - A month after four university students were stabbed to death in the same house in the US state of Idaho, police have yet to identify a suspect, the internet is lit up with theories from amateur sleuths and the mystery surrounding the crime is deepening. Just before noon on November 13, police received a call from students at the University of Idaho in the small town of Moscow, set amid hills in the northwestern state. They rushed to 1122 King Road and found four bodies at the house, two on the ground floor and two more upstairs. Four young white people have been repeatedly s...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court agreed Thursday to rule on the legality of President Joe Biden's landmark effort to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in student debt. The court will hear the case in February or March, according to a short statement it posted online. In the meantime, it declined to lift a lower court ruling that has put the policy on hold for now. The Democratic president, who has posed the measure as a boost for the middle class, announced in August that the federal government would forgive a huge portion of the often-crushing student debt held by Americans, era...
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Washington (AFP) - The recent dismissal of an American professor, whose students said he graded too harshly, has ignited debate in the United States about universities that bend too much to the wishes of their students. Maitland Jones, who taught organic chemistry at New York University (NYU), was dismissed in August without a prior interview or clear explanation, leaving him "baffled," he told AFP. Eighty-two of his students signed a petition to complain about his grading, which they considered too harsh. "The students who wrote the petition were... not able to accept the fact that they were ...
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Washington (AFP) - When Roman De La Cruz learned that some of his student debt could be forgiven, he breathed "a huge sigh of relief." The 27-year-old, who like millions of Americans borrowed heavily to finance his college education, worried he would have to live from one paycheck to another to pay back the $27,000 he owed. But because he makes less than $125,000 a year, De La Cruz will see $10,000 wiped off his debt under a plan announced by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday. "I was a little worried," De La Cruz told AFP. "I was barely going to make it." The debt forgiveness is intended to ...
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