Troy Worden

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Is the LSAT racist? Study blames test for low black enrollment in law schools

Troy Worden · April 19, 2019 5:33 pm

April 15, 2018: Catholic University of America and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

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Schism: Catholic University supports porn filter on campus, Notre Dame doesn’t

Troy Worden · April 18, 2019 6:51 pm

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Berkeley students throw pro-life display into creek, heckle speaker with coat hangers

Troy Worden · April 11, 2019 6:33 pm

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order requiring colleges to certify that their policies support free speech as a condition of receiving federal research grants, after signing, Thursday March 21, 2019, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

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Why are university administrators afraid of Trump’s free speech executive order?

Troy Worden · April 9, 2019 1:00 pm

FILE - In this July 26, 2011 file photo, a Greenlandic Inuit hunter and fisherman steers his boat past a melting iceberg, along a fjord leading away from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, near Nuuk, Greenland. Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Belief and worry about climate change are inching up among Americans in general, but concern is growing faster among people who don't often trust scientists on the environment. In follow-up interviews, some of those doubters said they believe their own eyes as they've watched thermometers rise, New York City subway tunnels flood, polar ice melt and Midwestern farm fields dry up. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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Academic study not shy on who to blame for climate change: White people

Troy Worden · April 9, 2019 4:00 am

From left to right, Elizabeth Gillette, 19, Ashley Stewart, 19, and Emma Salas, 18, all student from George Mason University, join other activists as they protest in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018.

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Students demand George Mason University fire Brett Kavanaugh

Troy Worden · April 4, 2019 8:15 pm

This Sept. 9, 2016 photo shows Harkness Tower on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

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Yale won’t give financial aid to students working at traditional Christian organizations

Troy Worden · April 4, 2019 5:15 pm

This Oct. 15, 2016, photo shows the University of California entrance sign on the corner of Oxford Street and Center Street at Berkeley, California.

California lawmakers unveil plan to end legacies and standardized tests in college admissions

Troy Worden · April 3, 2019 4:26 pm

Students walk past Sather Gate on Thursday, May 10, 2018, on the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif.

Conservative attacked on UC Berkeley campus for protesting Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax

Troy Worden · February 21, 2019 6:38 pm

Shot of two students studying together on campus.

‘Free’ college, an increasingly expensive lesson

Troy Worden · February 7, 2019 8:05 pm

Signs are propped against a tree during a rally outside Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Monday, May 7, 2018, in Los Angeles. Thousands of custodians, security guards, gardeners and other service workers at University of California campuses have started a three-day walkout to address gender pay inequalities and demand higher wages.

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At Berkeley, inconvenient data are rejected as racist, sexist ‘hate facts’

Troy Worden · November 29, 2018 6:35 pm

Yale Law School students hold a sit-in in the Sterling Law Building in New Haven, Conn., Monday morning, Sept. 24, 2018, to protest the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and demand an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him.

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Yale student defends tearing down anti-Brett Kavanaugh posters

Troy Worden · October 23, 2018 2:00 pm