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Straight-A student leaves college for self-owned patriotic wood design business

Finn McCole - Trinity College — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 05:04:00 +0000

‘I don’t regret it, I love what I do, and I hope more kids start to realize that you don’t need a college degree to be successful’ Like most college students living under strict COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, Jason Nichols was a bored student with a lot of time on his hands. Nichols, 21, who attended the Staten Island-based St. John’s University, was faced with an extra abundance of free time…

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Yes, ‘Zombie Studies’ is a thing

Finn McCole - Trinity College — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:03:16 +0000

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in June 2022 signed a new higher education reform law, he cited the need to ensure colleges and universities are worth the cost. “I’m a big believer in higher education but I’m not a believer in plunging people $150,000 into debt with a degree in ‘zombie studies,’” he said at the time. “That is not a pathway to success.” Zombie studies, as it turns out…

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Harvard alumni form group to fight for free speech on campus

Finn McCole - Trinity College — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 05:03:12 +0000

Harvard University is the best college in the world, or so George Kurzon thought. But Kurzon, who graduated from the Ivy League university in 1951, recently discovered his alma mater ranked in the bottom 20 percent on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s 2021 free speech rankings — then dropped even lower in 2022 to the bottom 17 percent. “A university is of little value if it…

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Professor calls ChatGPT ‘woke parrot’ after AI refuses to cite fossil fuels’ benefits

Finn McCole - Trinity College — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 05:02:39 +0000

‘People using AI systems like ChatGPT need to be aware that they can effectively be political tools to manipulate them’ Pedro Domingos, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, recently shared an attempt to ask the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to “write a 10 paragraph argument for using more fossil fuels to increase human happiness.” The answer: “I’m sorry…

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Should colleges be held liable for COVID vaccine mandate damages? A national debate emerges.

Finn McCole - Trinity College — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 05:01:17 +0000

“Should colleges be held liable for damages caused by COVID-19 vaccine mandates?” That was the question posed Jan. 4 by Twitter user @healthbyjames, and it quickly went viral, amassing more than 20,000 likes and more than 1,500 responses. It came a day before Tufts University announced it would no longer require the bivalent COVID booster. “Finally a prominent American university takes a…

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TRENDING: Students earn As on tests, essays with ChatGPT artificial intelligence

Finn McCole - Trinity College — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 05:01:39 +0000

English professor: ‘The abilities of chatbots like ChatGPT are impressive, but they aren’t yet advanced enough to serve as a total shortcut for students — they will be soon, though’ A College of Staten Island student recently used ChatGPT on his final exams. He got As on both. “I used it for my multiple choice finals, two of them, and got a 95 on one of them and the other one, a 100…

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‘Be fruitful and multiply’: Massive gathering of conservative students celebrates nuclear family

Finn McCole - Trinity College — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 05:05:59 +0000

Speakers at Turning Point USA ‘AmericaFest’ also talk COVID, election, free speech PHOENIX — Many of the high-profile speakers at one of the largest annual gatherings of conservative high school and college students in the nation called on young people to embrace and advance traditional family values and gender roles. “If we as conservatives stand for anything, it should be to tell our young…

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Group of professors urge University of California to rescind COVID booster mandate

Finn McCole - Trinity College — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:01:45 +0000

Nine student newspapers declined to publish professors’ letter Nearly a dozen University of California system professors representing a wide variety of fields have signed a letter that calls for the rescinding of the system’s COVID booster mandate. The scholars sought to have their letter published in nine UC student newspapers, but none of them have agreed to publish it, the professors say.

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Princeton may remove statue of Founding Father John Witherspoon

Finn McCole - Trinity College — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 05:02:02 +0000

A Princeton University committee is slated to consider the removal of a prominent statue of Founding Father John Witherspoon in the center of their campus as a result of a petition demanding its removal. Witherspoon was a member of the second Continental Congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and was Princeton’s sixth president. But he owned two slaves on his farm in New Jersey…

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