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• May 26 | The Baltimore Sun | 407 Engagements: "A new $1.5 billion scholarship fund for early-career scientists announced Thursday by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will be named for Freeman Hrabowski III, the retiring University of Maryland Baltimore County president known for championing the diversification of the science world."

• May 31 | They Daily Mail | 17.6K Engagements: "An elderly woman was killed and two men were injured when a gunfight broke out on Tuesday at the conclusion of a high school graduation ceremony taking place at Xavier University, in New Orleans, police said. "

• May 31 | KARE 11 | 319 Engagements: "Students and parents at the University of Minnesota are expressing alarm about violent crime on one of the busiest stretches of University Avenue near campus, following reports of shots fired, robbery and assault in the past two weeks. "

• May 29 | Twitter l Lauren Maunus | 30 Retweets: ".@BrownUniversity police are now following me around " after I asked @SpeakerPelosi how it felt to betray her values and remarks today by supporting anti-choice, pro-NRA Henry Cuellar”

• May 27 | Twitter l Catherine Koebel | 25 Retweets: "Virginia Tech police visited the Virginia Tech shooter in his dorm room, after he harassed women on campus, they gave him a warning and left it at that."

• May 30 | Twitter l Nancy Armour | 40 Retweets: Because Roe came the year after Title IX, women athletes never had to consider their right to bodily autonomy when deciding where to go to college. That will change if, as expected, Roe is overturned.”

• May 26 | Twitter l USA Today | 27 Retweets: "Title IX was supposed to close the gender gap in college athletics by requiring schools to provide men and women equitable opportunities to play sports. Instead, schools have abused accepted rules to shortchange women and skirt its intent, USA TODAY found"

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• May 27 | Twitter l Tom Cotton | 11.2K Retweets: "Why should a waitress who didn't attend college pay the student loan debt of a lawyer making $300,000? This is exactly what will happen under Biden's student loan transfer plan."

• May 29 | Twitter | Nina Turner l 1.1K Engagements:  "Reminder: student loan debt is a tax on the poor and working poor who had the nerve to try to move up in society. Nothing more. That’s why those opposing cancelation call it a “handout,” just like every other social program."

• May 26 | Daily Mail l 5.5K Engagements: "A review by an international team of economists found draconian shutdowns only reduced Covid mortality by 3 per cent in the UK, US and Europe in 2020. The experts, from Johns Hopkins University in the US, Lund University in Sweden and the Danish think-tank the Center for Political Studies, said that equates to 6,000 fewer deaths in Europe and 4,000 fewer in the US."

• May 31 | Twitter l Ted Lieu | 817 Retweets:  "Another school shooting, this time at Morris Jeff High School graduation at Xavier University. MAGA Republicans want to preserve the status quo. Democrats want to put people before politics and pass gun safety laws. Time to try new ideas. The old ways have not worked."

• May 27 | BPR | 1.1K Engagements: "A Boston University assistant professor deemed property racist while defending riots in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in a Wednesday video."

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• May 28 | Twitter | Mehdi Hasan | 24K Retweets: “Cruz is a graduate of Princeton and Yale, a lawyer, a senator, the multimillionaire husband of a Goldman Sachs executive, who sends his kids to an exclusive school, but sure, let’s listen to him on ‘elites’!”

• May 29 | The Washington Post | 4.2K Engagements: “Saturday’s wait was worth it for the Maryland men’s lacrosse team. The top-seeded Terrapins started their NCAA tournament semifinal at Rentschler Field four hours late after weather snarled the day’s schedule, then finished off Princeton, 13-8, to move within a victory of an undefeated season.”

• May 30 | Twitter | Robert Costa | 506 Retweets: ““You’re never to take an oath to a president, a king, a queen. You’re not taking an oath to a dictator or wannabe dictator or tyrant," Chairman Milley said last week in remarks at @Princeton, where 16 students were commissioned as second lieutenants.”

• May 27 | Black Enterprise | 25.2K Engagements: “An elite Black gymnast in Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas turned down a commitment to the University of Arkansas to join the first-ever women’s gymnastics team at a historically Black college/university (HBCU).”

• May 25 | Twitter | Brian Caskey | 110 Retweets: “1/ Here is a list of school shootings: Thurston High School. Columbine High School. Heritage High School. Deming Middle School. Fort Gibson Middle School. Buell Elementary School. Lake Worth Middle School. University of Arkansas. Junipero Serra High School.”

• May 31 | News 5 Cleveland | 598 Engagements: “New Case Western Reserve University program helps to bring more diversity to specialized nursing.”

• May 25 | The Daily | 40 Engagements: “Case Western Reserve University signs license agreement to bring artificial intelligence breakthroughs closer to cancer patient care”

• May 27 | University of Arizona Athletics | 2.4K Engagements: “Arizona (37-20) edged out Mississippi State, 3-2, in game one of the Starkville Super Regional. Clutch home runs from Allie Skaggs and Izzy Pacho pushed Arizona past the Bulldogs (37-26).”

• May 31 | Twitter | | The SETI Institute | 124 Retweets: “#PPOD: This spectacular image is a composite of two images. Jupiter and its Great Red Spot were captured by @NASAVoyager 1 on 4 March 1979, while the image of volcanic moon Io was taken by NASA's Galileo on 4 April 1997. Credit: @NASA @NASAJPL Björn Jönsson @uarizona”

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• May 31 | The Connecticut Post | 1.6K Engagements: “They are among dozens of women and spouses who are suing Yale University, claiming the staff at the clinic should have known that, instead of receiving fentanyl to relieve pain during the procedure, they instead were being injected with saline — salt water.”

• May 29 | Twitter | Bison 4 Life | 1.6K Retweets: “This how #StarWars toxic fandom works. The fanboys enmasse attacked one character in #ObiWan. We know why. Then say she can’t act. She’s a classically trained Yale grad with an Emmy nomination for “The Queens Gambit”. Last role opposite Denzel in “ The Tragedy of Macbeth””

• May 29 | Twitter | Cathy | 259 Retweets: “@SenTedCruz You went to Princeton and Yale. Your wife is a Goldman Sachs executive. Your kids go to an exclusive private school. You vacation at the Ritz Carlton. YOU ARE AN "ELITE", SIR!”

• May 31 | Daily Caller | 105.2K Engagements: “Harvard graduate and Daily Caller social media director Emma Heussner went viral Sunday for walking out of Merrick Garland’s commencement speech. Heussner posted that she “just walked out of Harvard’s graduation because I didn’t want to listen to Merrick Garland talk about himself for 30 minutes,” but what she did hear was “pretty rich.””

• May 29 | Twitter | Emma Heussner | 6.5K Retweets: “just walked out of harvard’s graduation because I didn’t want to listen to merrick garland talk about himself for 30 minutes”

• May 26 | Twitter | Chef José Andrés | 838 Retweets: “I’m humbled to receive an honorary degree from @Harvard…who let me create the Science + Cooking class with my mentor @ferranadria despite never finishing high school! I’m thankful for my supportive family and to @WCKitchen @dcck for giving cooks like me an opportunity to serve🎓”

• May 25 | Twitter | Charlie Sykes | 417 Retweets: “"Three days. "That’s how long it takes before the public’s anger begins to dissipate after a mass shooting, according to two scholars at Princeton University." --@blakehounshell”

• May 27 | The National Review | 116 Engagements: “The firing of Joshua Katz shows that Princeton no longer stands for tolerance, respect, good faith, and excellence.”

• May 31 | ESPN | 2.6K Engagements: “Three months after their daughter, Stanford women's soccer goalkeeper Katie Meyer, died from suicide, parents Steve and Gina Meyer have proposed a university policy they believe could have saved her life.”

• May 28 | Business Insider | 2.6K Engagements: “In a virtual address delivered to Standford students on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered his condolences to Americans following Tuesday's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. ”

• Jun 01 | Twitter | Nancy Pelosi | 496 Retweets: “Across the country, from California to New York, workers are fighting for unions, higher pay and safe working conditions with a new energy. San Francisco and Los Angeles public employees, Stanford nurses and Richmond refinery workers have all won victories recently. #UnionStrong”