College protests articles
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Why anti-war protests on college campuses don't compare to 1968's Vietnam War protests
Perhaps the most challenging thing about having written a book about the 1968 presidential election is that every time there is political violence or student protests in America, people compare those events to that ill-fated year — and they are pretty much always wrong. Take, for example, the increasingly omnipresent talk about how the pro-Palestinian anti-war protests roiling American college campuses today bear similarity to those protests 56 years ago opposing the war in Vietnam. Sen. Bernie...
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Campus protests, FAFSA delays plagued college admissions this year—how it affects incoming students, from college counselors
FAFSA delays, campus protests, Supreme Court decisions and more combined to create a perfect storm of issues plaguing this year's college admissions cycle.
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Who Is Funding the College Protests?
As pro-Palestinian college protests continue nationwide, questions are being asked about the authenticity of the demonstrations—and who is funding them. In the earliest days of the encampments, photos showing rows of identical tents quickly appeared online, prompting many observers to ask if some of the sit-ins were not orchestrated by students. Indeed, according to NYPD