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President David Wippman’s most recent co-authored essay, “The campus war of words over antisemitism and the BDS movement,” began with these words, “The Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7 have highlighted sharp disagreements — among college and university leaders, students, faculty, alumni, politicians and the general public — over where to draw the line between protected speech and impermissible harassment or threats.”
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National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. November’s news highlights ranged from challenges faced in higher education to Dolly Parton to heart disease.
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Two essays, co-authored by President David Wippman and Cornell Professor Glenn Altschuler, were published on consecutive weekends in November in The Hill and distributed broadly on Microsoft’s web news portal MSN.
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Hamilton President David Wippman shared a message with the Hamilton community addressing the terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel.
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In his latest co-authored essay, “How colleges can address online harassment,” President David Wippman observed that, “traditional free speech rules are difficult to apply in a social media age.”
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“Florida’s new Black history standards are misleading and offensive” an op-ed co-authored by President David Wippman and Cornell Professor Glenn Altschuler, expounded on the serious omissions in the state’s new Black history standards.
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July’s news highlights ranged from women’s basketball to writing a college essay.
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“Worries about a gender gap on campuses oversimplify the situation,” an essay co-authored by President David Wippman in The Washington Post, provided an overview of women’s participation in higher education beginning in the colonial period.
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In an op-ed appearing in The Hill, President David Wippman and Cornell professor Glenn Altschuler discussed Oklahoma’s law targeting “critical race theory” and how it forbids teaching students about historic events including the Tulsa Massacre, one of the worst instances of racially motivated violence in U.S. history.
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National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. Here are the second quarter’s national news coverage highlights. The articles include expert commentary on wars in Ukraine and Sudan, opinions on civic education, and an explanation of how the concept of race evolved in the Renaissance, among others.
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