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When appeals to campus safety are an excuse to suppress speech; what the NLRB ruling means for college sports; dos and don’ts of your CVs; and more. ADVERTISEMENT [Afternoon Update Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. RATINGS REVAMP [Teaching Evaluations Are Broken. Can They Be Fixed?]( By Beth McMurtrie [STORY IMAGE]( Superficial assessments hurt professors and students, but reform is hard. ADVERTISEMENT BURDEN ON SPEECH [When Are Appeals to Campus Safety an Excuse to Suppress Speech?]( By Maggie Hicks [STORY IMAGE]( A sweeping punishment, a canceled art show, and allegations that Indiana University is silencing pro-Palestinian voices. ATHLETICS [Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Players Can Vote to Unionize. What Does That Mean for Everyone Else?]( By Nell Gluckman [STORY IMAGE]( A federal official has ruled in the athletes’ favor, allowing them to hold a union vote. The ruling applies only to them but could reverberate across college sports. THE REVIEW | ESSAY [Teaching Ignorance in Florida]( By Peter Brooks [STORY IMAGE]( Prohibitions on knowledge draw attention to what they prohibit. ADVICE [Dos and Don’ts of Creating Your CV]( By Jennifer S. Furlong and Stacy M. Hartman [STORY IMAGE]( Answers to common questions of early-career academics on this all-important job document. RACE ON CAMPUS [New FAFSA Has Left Latino Families ‘Frustrated and Scared’]( By Daarel Burnette II [STORY IMAGE]( For all the anxiety over the affirmative-action ruling and the dismantling of DEI, the new student-aid form might hurt students of color the most. CAMPUS SPEECH I [Northwestern Students Face Criminal Charges for Pro-Palestine Newspaper Parody]( The single-page leaflets, released in late October and designed to imitate [The Daily Northwestern]( included a headline that said, “Northwestern complicit in genocide of Palestinians.” The student paper complained to the police, and now the authors of the parody face charges under an obscure anti-Ku Klux Klan law that could land them in jail for a year. (The Intercept) CAMPUS SPEECH II [Citing Antisemitism, Arizona House Votes to Let Students Withhold Activity Fees]( The Republican-backed legislation would allow students at public universities to prevent their mandatory activity fees from going to specific campus groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine. The bill’s supporters say that those groups can say what they want, but students should not be forced to subsidize their operations. 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