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A 13-year-old student in Rome pepper-sprayed and stabbed his 66-year-old teacher and allegedly tried to livestream the attack from a helmet-mounted phone. A classmate intervened, the teacher survived, and police arrested the student. The article also notes official calls for tighter social media restrictions for minors.
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A campus-focused newsletter roundup highlights a California college video showing a Trump piñata being struck and renewed national attention on Mahmoud Khalil. It also promotes items about conservative students facing retaliation or investigations, framing campus disputes as chaos and chilled speech for Republicans.
National ReviewSig. 3OpinionEducationCulture
Rich Lowry praises The Golden Thread, a two-volume history of Western civilization, as a countercultural achievement. He argues the book rightly prioritizes learning about one's own civilization at a time when academia has de-centered Western Civ.
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A 13-year-old Long Island boy with a reported IQ of 168 has been accepted into NYU's master's program after overcoming leukemia and Tourette's syndrome. He is expected to finish his undergraduate degree at LSU before starting at NYU next fall.