Academe Today Monday, October 3, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News | Faculty By Steve Kolowich Marc Edwards, the hero scientist of Flint, Mich., has become a standard-bearer for watchdog scholarship. So why does he feel haunted? |
| Finance By Scott Carlson Some observers dismiss a year of bad returns as of little consequence for the world’s richest university. Others see a cautionary tale over how elite institutions use and invest their endowments. |
| The Chronicle Review By Marc Parry Deborah E. Lipstadt, a historian at Emory University, talks about a new movie, Denial, based on her experience of being sued by a Holocaust denier and defeating him in court. |
| Race on Campus By Katherine Mangan Instead of prompting violence or dividing the campus, an offensive stunt at East Tennessee State University led to a larger conversation about race relations. |
In Brief
Views | Commentary By John McCumber Students who can't understand why racism and anti-Semitism are evil don’t need more STEM classes. They need history and sociology. |
| The Chronicle Review By Silke-Maria Weineck The controversy over "The Star-Spangled Banner" presents an opportunity for a conversation about peaceful dissent and free speech. |
| Lingua Franca Ben Yagoda finds a list of word prohibitions, purportedly from Steven Pinker, and discovers it to be a dispiriting example of the degradation of what used to be called journalism and is now merely "content." |
Advice | First Person By Leonard Cassuto Part 1 in a series on how to pick the professor who will guide your dissertation. |
| Vitae Also in our weekly roundup of the best conversations from The Chronicle's discussion forums: how to write a second book when you have a heavy teaching load, and tips on getting students to read. |
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