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The Department of Homeland security utilized a fake university to lure in students who were overstaying their visa deadlines.

The Florida International University (FIU) chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a far-right college group, are making headlines after the group’s Whatsapp chats were leaked showing members making Islamophobic rape memes, joking about sexual assault, and deportation threats against Latinx students. Now, FIU professors and student activists are organizing to demand administrative action against the […]

Johns Hopkins University announced plans to name its newest interdisciplinary building after Henreitta Lacks during its ninth annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture on Saturday morning. The building is expected to be completed in 2022 and a groundbreaking ceremony will occur in 2020 according to Johns Hopkins Magazine. Lacks was a cancer patient at Johns Hopkins […]

Hampton students held a town hall meeting on February 20th to address and confront long-standing issues the student body has had with the university’s administration. Students say there is a lack of attention to sexual assault cases, negligence to maintain safe emergency call equipment, unsanitary dining halls and rampant mold in dormitory buildings. During the […]

After a month and a half of being admittedly inhospitable and criminally unsanitary, and then a two-week “investigation” into her terrorizing actions, Brianna Brochu was finally arrested and charged with two misdemeanors after “poisoning” her Black roommate. In addition, the West Hartford Police Department says it is also still pursuing charges against Brochu for felony […]

After a frenetic Tuesday that saw Washington, D.C.’s Howard University receive not one, but two reports of an active shooter, D.C. police gave an all-clear at around 2:05 pm. Alonzo Joy, the university’s interim police chief, reassured D.C residents and Howard students at a press conference: “We have found no evidence, no witnesses, nothing that […]

Former FBI Director James Comey now has a new role as he’ll be leading multiple lectures at Howard University this school year. Comey’s opportunity to engage in open discussion at the historic HBCU is an added perk of his new title of the 2017-19 Gwendolyn S. and Colbert I. King Endowed Chair in Public Policy. […]

College campuses across the nation are finally listening to the public. All it took was a violent rally in Charlottesville to show them the error of their ways. 

A heavily debated topic in academia is whether or not graduate students should be considered students or university employees. Last year, Columbia University sent a shock through the system after ruling that they should be considered the latter and given benefits to reflect such. Universities across the country have slowly started to get involved in […]

They say the next thing to do after you reach the top of the mountain is to reach back and help someone else make it there. Esperanza Spalding has already won pretty much every award she can in music – including Grammys, an NAACP Image Award, a Boston Music Award and a Soul Train Music Award. Now, […]

Activists and community members have been calling for an adult trauma center on Chicago’s South Side for years. Despite the area’s ongoing issues with a lack of emergency trauma services, it looked like the support would never come. The University of Chicago Medicine announced that an adult trauma center will open in May 2018. DNA Info reports […]

This article was originally published in the Chicago Maroon. “If I were you, I would just go to whatever state school you’ve already been accepted to. The University of Chicago is really a tough institution, and I’m not quite sure you’d do well there, if we’re being honest.” I felt my heart beating fast, my […]