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5 Things You Shouldn’t Say to a Recent College Graduate

To avoid a post-commencement faux pas, consider these expert-tested do’s and don’ts when ...

Racism on Ivy League Campus and by Alum Donald Trump Cut From Same Ugly Cloth

Black in White by Luke Chueh

Recently I've been thinking a lot about Barack Obama, Donald Trump... and Christopher Abreu. OK, Trump and Obama you probably know about. But who's Christopher Abreu? He's a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, about to graduate this spring with honors. But last week, he wrote an op-ed in the Daily Pennsylvanian newspaper in which he made disturbing allegations about a late night incident on the West Philadelphia campus. "I was heading home at 2 a.m.," he wrote, "which meant that students were stumbling out of bars and making their way back home as well." He says a drunk student asked, "Where can I get some fried chicken?... You look like someone who knows where you can get fried chicken." Abreu writes that he suggested they "try Wawa if you're hungry." The white student yelled out to his friends, "I'm gonna go get some fried chicken! This n----- just told me where it's at!" If those words weren't chilling enough, they remind me of something that one of the school's most famous alumni, billionaire Donald Trump, who received an undergraduate degree from Penn's Wharton School in 1968, also said this spring....

More Professors Give Out Hand-Held Devices to Monitor Students and Engage Them

EVANSTON, Ill. — If any of the 70 undergraduates in Prof. Bill White’s “Organizational Behavior” course here at Northwestern University are late for class, or not paying attention, he will know without having to scan the lecture hall. Their “clickers” will tell him. Every student in Mr. White’s class has been assigned a palm-size, wireless device that looks like a TV remote but has a far less entertaining purpose. With their clickers in hand, the students in Mr. White’s class automatically clock in as “present” as they walk into class. They then use the numbered buttons on the devices to ...