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Halloween in L.A. www.CampusCircle.com CAMPUS CIRCLE October 23 - November 5, 2014 3 NEWS NEWS VIEWS The Latest from L.A. and Beyond PRESS/MCT OLIVIER DOULIERY/ABACA BY CAMPUS CIRCLE STAFF U.S. GOVERNMENT NOW INVESTIGATING 85 COLLEGES require their students to take classes in these core subjects. FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES Out of 1,098 four-year colleges and universities, only 18 The number of colleges and universities under federal scrutiny percent of the schools require American history to graduate, President Obama speaks at the launch of the ‘It’s On Us’ campaign to for their handling of sexual assault cases continues to increase. 13 percent require a foreign language and 3 percent require prevent sexual assault on college campuses. Earlier this year, 55 schools were announced, but that number economics. soon jumped to 76. Now, the feds are investigating 85 schools. Ninety-eight F’s were passed out to colleges; Whittier perhaps there is one positive that comes with using a communal Joining the list of schools already on the list--Occidental, College in Southern California was one of them. The private bathroom: it’s the perfect place to make friends! USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Harvard, etc.--are Grand Valley State school received an F because students are required to take Science of Us reports college students are more likely to University in Michigan, Marlboro College in Vermont, Drake only one core course (in composition) to graduate. Wesleyan meet other students in a shared bathroom, which often leads to University in Iowa, Valparaiso University in Indiana, California University and Brown University received F’s as well. friendships. This is according to a study from the British Journal Institute of the Arts and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Besides the fact that college graduates don’t have sufficient of Social Psychology that examined 462 university residents: Students at these schools filed complaints under the gender knowledge about U.S. government, history or economics, it’s “Respondents living in flats with design features that equity law Title IX, which states “colleges must address and believed that their critical thinking skills also aren’t up to par encouraged the use of communal areas – a shared common eliminate sexual violence and harassment on campus, regardless due to the lack of a rigorous core curriculum. area and an absence of ensuite toilets – reported unintentionally of whether police are involved in a case.” However, some schools disagree and defend their meeting their flatmates more frequently within their flats. This interdisciplinary approach. in turn predicted the initial strength of their interpersonal STUDY: MAJORITY OF STUDENTS CLUELESS ABOUT bonds with their flatmates, which in turn positively predicted U.S. HISTORY, GOVERNMENT LOOKING FOR NEW FRIENDS? HEAD TO THE DORM their well-being.” A majority of U.S. college graduates don’t know that much BATHROOM (SERIOUSLY) So, the next time you’re in the bathroom and need the about history, government or economics, reports The Wall Using a shared bathroom is one of the many college experiences person in the stall next to you to share some of that toilet paper, Street Journal. Why? Because, according to a recent study by the most freshmen have to endure. At times, it can be uncomfortable strike up a conversation. You never know: your chance bathroom American Council of Trustees and Alumni, many colleges don’t and down right disgusting, but new research suggests that encounter could lead to the greatest friendship of all time. 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PROFESSOR to the Scholar Rescue Fund was chilling. It Amal Alachkar, a neuroscience professor from Syria, put it Since 2013, Rutgers University has hosted three scholars: an described how he had been pressured relentlessly by a local militia this way: “The regime will fall sooner or later, but the country Ethiopian, an Iranian and an Iraqi, in diverse fields. to promote its agenda in his publications. He had received multiple will have to be rebuilt.” “These scholars have challenged students, stimulated fac- death threats, he wrote, including a message left in his classroom With the help of a visiting fellowship, Alachkar came to UC ulty and made Rutgers a stronger intellectual community,” says saying simply: “We are waiting for you.” Still, he continued to Irvine to continue her important research on the neurological Alison Bernstein, director of the Rutgers University Institute for teach until his sister was abducted and killed to underscore the causes of psychiatric disorders. But she is eager to return when Women’s Leadership. threat to him. At that point, the professor finally reached out to the threat lifts. American academics have genuine worries about grants, our organization, in the hope of finding a safe haven. “We are facing a lost generation, hundreds of thousands course loads and tenure. But for the scholars with whom we Another professor from Iraq described how she went into of students lacking access to education,” she says.