Clark alum Arianna Roberson to miss freshman season at Duke
After a successful high school career for the Clark Cougars, Arianna Roberson helped Team USA go undefeated in the FIBA 3X3 U18 World Cup this past month in Hungary.
Campus protests over Israel-Hamas war scaled down during US commencement exercises
Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have spread across U.S. university and college campuses in recent weeks, leading to disruptions and arrests.
Pro-Palestinian protests dwindle on campuses as US college graduations are marked by defiant acts
Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far.
Pro-Palestinian protests dwindle on campuses as some US college graduations marked by defiant acts
Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far.
The Latest: Mexico's president knocks US over vaccines
A police officer patrols in the Chatelet area amidst the new coronavirus pandemic, in Paris, Saturday, March 13, 2021. Some of the nationโs governors routinely block access to public records, keeping the public in the dark about key decisions involving the coronavirus pandemic. Polling shows divides by race and politics, with Black Americans and supporters of former President Donald Trump expressing more skepticism about the vaccines. Richard Hall of the Berkshire COVID-19 Vaccine Collaborative spoke to the The Berkshire Eagle. Ad___WASHINGTON - Commercial air travel appears to be on the upswing despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The Latest: All Duke University undergrads must quarantine
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University issued a quarantine order for all of its undergraduates effective Saturday night due to a coronavirus outbreak caused by students who attended recruitment parties, the school said. The university said in a statement that all undergraduate students will be forced to stay-in-place until at least March 21. Suspension or dismissal from the school are potential punishments for โflagrant or repeat violators.โOver the past week, the school has reported more than 180 positive coronavirus cases among students. AdItaly has now tallied some 3.2 million cases in the pandemic. The COVAX alliance aims to share COVID-19 vaccines with more than 90 lower and middle-income nations.
Man who played Duke Chapel bells for 50 years dies
In this 2018 photo provided by Duke University, Sam Hammond, university carillonneur, plays the Duke Chapel carillon at the university in Durham, North Carolina. Hammond, who retired as university carillonneur in 2018 after playing the bells at Duke Chapel for five decades, died Thursday at age 73 in Durham, the university said in a news release. When the basketball team played its archrival from the University of North Carolina, he played the Duke fight song. The university said he played music on the bells an average of 300 times a year, estimating his performances exceeded 15,000. In 1986, he was named university carillonneur, becoming the second person to hold that position.
As election nears, watch out for pink slime local news sites in San Antonio
A report recently published by the Columbia Journalism Review exposed a network of pink slime news sites, which have grown from roughly 450 sites in December 2019 to more than 1,200 in 2020. In Texas, the network of pink slime sites goes back to a company named Metric Media. Theyve created websites in the San Antonio area that include:SanAntonioCorridorNews.comSanAntonioStandard.comSouthSanAntonioNews.comNorthSanAntonioNews.comHillCountryChronicle.comThough the website names are different, they look identical. In total, Metric Media created 56 pink slime news sites in Texas. While the pink slime sites sometime pull stories from legitimate news sites, experts say its important to make sure the information isnt manipulated in some way.