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• Oct 08 | ABC News | 3.6K Engagements: “A guilty verdict was reached Friday afternoon in the trial of John Wilson and Gamal Abdelaziz, two wealthy fathers charged with paying bribes to secure prestigious college spots for their kids under false pretenses. Wilson and Abdelaziz were the first defendants among about five dozen to stand trial in Boston for charges stemming from the sweeping Operation Varsity Blues scheme.”

• Oct 13 | LA Times | 1.5K Engagements: “A federal grand jury accused Ridley-Thomas of conspiring with Marilyn Louise Flynn, then dean of USC’s School of Social Work, to steer county money to the university in return for admitting his son Sebastian into graduate school with a full-tuition scholarship and a paid professorship.”

• Oct 06 | WBRZ | 697 Engagements: “Hours after a WBRZ inquiry from Chief Investigator Chris Nakamoto to State Police, troopers issued a mass statement to news outlets about a weeks-old investigation into complaints of a trooper and misconduct involving members of the LSU band at an away football game.

  Following that incident being reported, LSU followed protocols and opened a Title IX investigation.”

• Oct 08 | ESPN | 664 Engagements: “San Jose State president Mary Papazian resigned Thursday after the university agreed last month to pay $1.6 million to 13 female student-athletes whose complaints about being sexually assaulted by an athletic trainer were mishandled.”

• Oct 06 | The Daily Beast | 220 Engagements: “The University of Montana law school dean announced his resignation on Thursday amid allegations his administration tried to discourage women from reporting sexual assaults and mishandled other misconduct allegations.“

• Oct 06  | The Gazette | 159 Engagements: “As part of the University of Iowa’s deal to settle a lawsuit accusing it of federal gender equity violations, the institution has agreed to pay “reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs” of nearly $400,000 and maintain a women’s swimming and diving team for at least seven more years. And it will hire an outside monitor to report publicly on how the

• Oct 07 | Newsweek | 69 Engagements: “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal rights nonprofit, announced on Thursday that Ford had funded a 2018 research project at Wayne State University that killed and used at least 27 pigs in crash testing.The organization calls the move a "violation of its 2009 ban on animal use in experiments."”

• Oct 10  | Twitter | PETA | 65 Retweets: “A former primate researcher turned into an animal activist after working at @UW's monkey laboratory. Why? Find out 👇”

• Oct 11 | NBC News | 3.3K Engagements: “The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has canceled classes on Tuesday and given students a “wellness day" while campus authorities investigate two possible suicides over the weekend.”

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• Oct 08 | The Blaze | 67.2K Retweets: “Video shows a California doctor being escorted out of the UCLA Medical Plaza in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The UCLA anesthesiologist is vehemently against vaccine mandates and proclaims that he is "willing to lose everything" to defend his position against mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19.”

• Oct 09 | Twitter | Travis for President | 1.5K Retweets: “Harvard is currently having a major Covid outbreak, even though only fully vaccinated people are allowed to attend. Can you explain this @PressSec” 

• Oct 12 | Twitter | Nick DePaula | 464 Retweets: “BREAKING: Pensole Footwear Design Academy founder D’Wayne Edwards has acquired the Lewis College of Business in Detroit, Michigan’s 1st HBCU originally founded in 1928. The Pensole Lewis College of Business & Design will open in 2022 with free tuition & design education access.”

• Oct 05 | Twitter | Cal Matters | 422 Retweets: “Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a huge expansion of the Cal Grant, the state’s main financial aid tool. It would have topped off a banner year for legislators who for years sought to reduce the cost of college. @mzinshteyn reports”

• Oct 10  | Twitter | Julian Berger | 89 Retweets: “CW: death • • • UNC Police has reported a fourth suicide this semester, according to its crime log. @UNC, when will you step in and provide adequate support for your students? Students, please take time for yourselves. Also, reach out and check in with those near you! 💛”

• Oct 02 | Fox News | 24.3K Engagements: “An accounting professor at UCLA said he filed a lawsuit against the school after it put him on leave and allegedly threatened to fire him for not grading Black student’s more leniently than their peers.”

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• Oct 06 | Human Flourishing | 5.4K Engagements: “...I received this letter from the University informing me that, as of the following morning, I was being placed on “Investigatory Leave” for my failure to comply with the vaccine mandate. I was given no opportunity to contact my patients, students, residents, or colleagues and let them know I would disappear for a month...”

• Oct 10 | Twitter | @CatHaven04 | 1.3K Retweets: “Over a hundred thousand maskless people (besides the reporters) gathered and enjoyed their lives yesterday at the Texas A&M vs Alabama football game. These images hamper [their] fear/shamdemic narrative and should be seen by all normies. https://t.co/rBSNFLZMTT”
   
• Oct 09 | Twitter | Sports Illustrated | 396 Retweets: “DOWN. GOES. BAMA.
  
  Texas A&M takes down No. 1 as the Crimson Tide suffer their first loss to an unranked team since 2007 🚨 (via @CBSSports) https://t.co/qlSZl6oLYR”

• Oct 09 | On3 | 28.9K Engagements: “Unranked Texas A&M defeated top ranked Alabama 41-38 on a last second field goal, handing Alabama head coach Nick Saban his first ever loss to a former assistant coach of his in Jimbo Fisher."
   
• Oct 11 | AL.com | 4.8K Engagements: “Seven tribes are asking the University of Alabama to return 5,892 human remains and the artifacts buried with them at Moundville, an archaeological park in Alabama and a major center of Native American culture from 1020 to 1650."

• Oct 09 | On3 | 7.6K Engagements: “This one will be extra sweet for Oklahoma Sooner fans and it will surely sting for a long, long time for Texas fans. The Longhorns were up 28-7 in the game, but the Sooners made an incredible comeback behind the stellar play of true freshman signal-caller Caleb Williams."

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• Oct 09 | Fox News | 15.1K Engagements: “Texas A&M upsets No. 1 Alabama, shocks college football world”

• Oct 10 | Twitter | Trent Smallwood | 209 Retweets: “#Bama gave up 41 points to #TAMU tonight. #UGA has allowed 33 points in 6 games. 😳"

• Oct 08 | Breitbart | 28.2K Engagements: “Louisiana State University (LSU) is reversing course, completely scrapping its vaccination and testing requirements for fans attending games at Tiger Stadium over a month after initially introducing the policy.”
   
• Oct 08 | Twitter | Brett McMurphy | 273 Retweets: “LSU will no longer require prove of vaccination or negative COVID tests for fans at home football games in Tiger Stadium rest of season, beginning Oct. 16th vs. Florida"

• Oct 07 | Daily Wire | 78.1K Engagements: “Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Marty Makary is speaking out about blanket vaccine mandates that are “ruining lives” and bizarrely discount natural immunity, which he said studies have shown to be 27 times more effective than vaccinated immunity. ”
   
• Oct 07 | Twitter | Jacob Cabe | 944 Retweets: “BREAKING: Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Marty Makary says natural immunity is 27 times more effective than vaccines"