Sentences with phrase «debate over campus»

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The debate is not really about atheists (or Jews or Muslims) taking over Christian groups on campus.

The violence that preempted the talk of a prominent alt - right speaker on University of California Berkeley's campus has set off a debate over the role of free speech in American society.

Erie Community College's construction of a new $ 30 - million academic building on it's north campus has brought up an old debate over whether the college should have three separate campuses or one central location downtown.

Sounding faintly Nixonian, he spoke of «the silent majority» (rarely heard during the 14 months of debate over this project), which he said «deplored substandard off - campus housing that is basically obsolete.»

The debate over the use of race in admission decisions has been wrenching, because it demands a trade - off among three worthwhile goals: race - blindness, academic selectivity, and a semblance of racial diversity on selective campuses.

Yet at this forum, an on - campus debate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over whether the university should divest the fossil fuel holdings within its $ 11 billion endowment, might not have happened if market forces properly priced the economic and environmental costs of climate change, a theme that Anthony Cortese, the event moderator, alluded to at the outset.

Heading into the 2015 True / False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, the last two documentaries I reviewed were Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground, about rape on college campuses, and Robert Kenner's Merchants Of Doubt, about the industry - financed «experts» who deliberately muddy the debate over the settled science of climate change and cigarette - smoking.

In classes, in study groups, and over coffee in the HGSE Commons, HEP students animatedly debate the possibilities of MOOCs and alternative pedagogies, the future of fraternities on campuses, and the pluses and minuses of a federal report card on higher education.

Four years ago, Martha Derthick and I argued that the U.S. Supreme Court would eventually be drawn into the debate over off - campus cyber-speech (see «Digital Discipline,» legal beat, Summer 2013).

His aggressive approach politicized nearly all that it touched, leaving in its wake unnecessarily divisive national debates over issues like Common Core and sexual harassment on college campuses.

Churches, campuses, and newspapers convulsed with debate over the proper role of government in regulating Americans» behavior, this country's place among nations, and, most explosively, the question of God's existence.

It forced schools across the country to rethink campus security and reignited the debate over gun control that rages to this day.