A sharp decline in black undergraduate enrollment — to 4.6 percent of the student body in 2013 from 6.2 percent in 2009 — and a general feeling of isolation among black students on campus have prompted a new wave of student activism, including a social media campaign called “Being Black at the University of Michigan” (or, on Twitter, #BBUM). Members of the university’s Black Student Union have petitioned campus administrators to, among other things, increase enrollment of black students to 10 percent.

“I didn’t have a dad in the house,” Mr. Obama said as he announced a $200 million, five-year initiative, My Brother’s Keeper, to help black youth. “And I was angry about it, even though I didn’t necessarily realize it at the time. I made bad choices. I got high without always thinking about the harm that it could do. I didn’t always take school as seriously as I should have. I made excuses. Sometimes I sold myself short.”

On the campus of Yale University, Edward Bouchet has long been a venerated name. Hailed as the first African-American to graduate from Yale College, in 1874, he went on to be the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. (and only the sixth person nationwide to earn one in physics).
Newly uncovered records suggest that Yale awarded a bachelor’s degree to another African-American man almost two decades before Mr. Bouchet received his diploma.
That man, according to an article being published on Saturday by the Yale Alumni Magazine, was Richard Henry Green.

To many photographers, a federal appeals court ruling last spring that permitted Richard Prince to use someone else’s photographs in his art was akin to slapping a “Steal This” label on their work.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reasoned that as long as Mr. Prince’s work transformed the images into original art, he was not violating anyone’s copyright.
But photographers are pushing back against that interpretation. Several membership and trade organizations have banded together recently to press their cause in Congress and the courts.

An investigation into Bob Jones University’s handling of sexual abuse complaints will be allowed to resume, the university and investigators said on Tuesday, after the school endured two weeks of criticism for cutting off the inquiry, without explanation, as it neared completion.
Some common themes were that when university students sought counseling, officials at Bob Jones called them liars or sinners, and told them not to report abuse to the police because turning in a member of their religious community — especially a parent or pastor — would harm Jesus and the church.

On Wednesday evening, the Hackley School, a 115-year-old prep school in Tarrytown, N.Y., emailed a letter to about 4,000 alumni and parents of current students to inform them that in the early 1960s an employee, “who had a role in teaching” for five years, “engaged in a pattern of abuse of Hackley students.”

McDonald’s waited a long time to open in Vietnam, given its global brand recognition and likely appeal to young Vietnamese consumers. When it did, it tagged Henry Nguyen, the son-in-law of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, as its local franchisee.
Bill Hayton, a former foreign correspondent in Vietnam and the author of “Vietnam: Rising Dragon,” a 2010 book that explored links between money and power in the one-party state, said: “Laws and regulations are often rather vaguely written, giving officials plenty of opportunity to delay or assist an investor’s plans, but Mr. Nguyen has been able to negotiate these difficulties with ease. Having the second-most-powerful man in the country as father-in-law is like having a golden ticket and get-out-jail-free card all rolled into one.”

Ngay từ giữa năm 2013, McDonald’s đã rầm rộ công bố dự án “đổ bộ” vào TP.HCM. Là “người đến sau”, McDonal’s chắc chắn phải đối mặt với cuộc cạnh tranh khốc liệt cùng hàng loạt các thương hiệu đồ ăn nhanh: KFC, Lotteria, Burger King, Subway, Jollibee, Pizza Hut, Domino’s Pizza… đang có chỗ đứng khá tốt ở Việt Nam.

There’s a lot of hype about T.P.P., from both supporters and opponents. Supporters like to talk about the fact that the countries at the negotiating table comprise around 40 percent of the world economy, which they imply means that the agreement would be hugely significant. But trade among these players is already fairly free, so the T.P.P. wouldn’t make that much difference.
What the T.P.P. would do, however, is increase the ability of certain corporations to assert control over intellectual property. Again, think drug patents and movie rights.

Phát triển bền vững vừa là biện pháp tìm hiểu thế giới, vừa là biện pháp nhằm bảo vệ nó. Như là biện pháp tìm hiểu thế giới, các sinh viên khóa học phát triển bền vững sẽ nghiên cứu những mối tương tác của nền kinh tế, môi trường, chính trị, và văn hóa và ảnh hưởng của chúng đối với sự thịnh vượng, hòa nhập xã hội và sự bền vững môi trường. Các sinh viên khóa học phát triển bền vững do đó phải học nhiều môn, trong đó có phát triển kinh tế, giáo dục, y tế, biến đổi khí hậu, hệ thống năng lượng, đa dạng sinh học, đô thị hóa, và những môn khác nữa.