Police arrest scores of pro-Palestinian protesters on US university campuses
Reuters Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on a handful of US university campuses on Saturday, as activists vowed to keep up the movement seeking a ceasefire in Israel’s war with Hamas among other demands. The Indiana University police department in Bloomington said in an emailed statement that 23 protesters were arrested there. Students walk past a […]
Amid ongoing US university campus protests, Columbia leadership rebuked by faculty panel for police crackdown on protesters
New York City, US Reuters Columbia’s embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a university oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest, saying the decision ran “contrary to the norms and traditions” of the Ivy League school. President Nemat Minouche Shafik has faced an outcry from many […]
US Supreme Court’s two Black justices clash over affirmative action ruling
Reuters When liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to join the US Supreme Court, she was expected to bring a different view on racial matters than Justice Clarence Thomas, its only other Black member and a staunch conservative. That dispute was front and center on Thursday when the two justices publicly […]
Centres of learning: At top universities, institutes of Catholic thought focus on science and religion
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports on how a multi-million dollar grant will support a new three-year plan for creating a national network of independent institutes of Catholic thought at US universities…
US campus ministries soothe, rally students shaken over Ukraine
New Haven, ConnecticutAP Entering Yale University’s St Thomas More Catholic chapel, Oksana Goroshchuk spotted sunflowers adorning a candlelit altar and thought of the fields full of her country’s national blossom near her grandmother’s home in Ukraine. A mezzo-soprano launched into a traditional folk tune that Goroshchuk used to sing growing up, and the postdoctoral medical […]
In the US, student files class-action lawsuit against Liberty University over pandemic response
RNS A student at Liberty University, an evangelical Christian school, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the school alleging that students were put at “severe physical risk” when the campus reopened in March despite the pandemic and accusing administrators of profiting from the health crisis by refusing to fully refund students. The lawsuit, which was filed […]
In the US, Taylor University president resigns after hosting VP Pence as commencement speaker
RNS Taylor University President Paul Lowell Haines has resigned from the nondenominational Christian university a month after hosting Vice President Mike Pence as commencement speaker. Taylor’s board of trustees announced Haines’ resignation Monday, noting in a press release on the school website his departure was neither solicited nor encouraged by the board. His last day at the […]