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In successive rulings last week, the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action and a plan that would have forgiven federal student loans, drawing sharp backlash from students and academics at Emerson and across the country. On Thursday, the high court rejected arguments put forth by Harvard University, among others, that race-based admissions are needed to...
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Share Source: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP The dean for the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin announced on Wednesday the school had created a new medal to be awarded for "News and Guts" in honor of disgraced journalist Dan Rather. "Dan Rather is not only a legend -- he’s the namesake of new awards honoring his career and the work of today’s journalists," Dean Jay Bernhardt tweeted. "We are thrilled to announce the @DanRather Medals for News and Guts." Dan Rather is not only a legend -- he’s the namesake of new awards honoring his career and the work of...
Itâs hard to un-see something so shocking, but it makes us newly sympathetic to the New Yorker folks on that Zoom call with Jeffrey Toobin. Still, there it was, hanging from a thick, burnt-orange neck ribbon: a gold medallion with a smugly familiar face on it; a medallion encircled by the words, âThe Dan Rather Medal for Excellence in News and Guts.â Itâs perhaps even harder, though, to imagine why the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas would debase itself, would beclown itself, by publicly announcing such an award. Far better to play it on the downl...