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November, 2012  (Page 3)

8 Tips For Dealing With a Hostile (Liberal) Professor

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, November 23, 2012 at 2:00pm

Dealing with a professor who’s hostile puts you in a tricky spot considering he or she is going to judge your classwork and grade you.

Matthew La Corte of Students for Liberty offers 8 tips for dealing with the situation.

Well, it’s that time again! School is back and the new semester is...

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Agenda Item — Conservatives Must Infiltrate Higher Education

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, November 23, 2012 at 12:00pm

Rather than turn a blind eye to liberal bias in academia, conservatives should become more involved. That’s the subject of a recent piece from Inside Higher Ed by Robert Maranto and Matthew Woessner.

For generations, American conservatives have had an uneasy relationship with higher education. Although most recognize the importance of a...

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Northwestern Chronicle — Obama’s Reelection is a Disappointment for America

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, November 23, 2012 at 10:00am

The facts about America’s real fiscal condition is only now slowly trickling out.

Theses facts are the basis for the disappointment  expressed below by the Northwestern Chronicle editors Charles Rollet, Dane Stier, Janice Janeczko, and Megan Wood.

President Obama’s historic re-election this year is disappointing. Disappointing because America has chosen another four years of debt, deficits, and...

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Professor Puts “Civility” Clause in Syllabus

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, November 23, 2012 at 8:00am

A professor at Queen’s University in Ontario has decided that her students can be graded in part based on civility. Could this be a more obvious violation of free speech?

Who decides what counts as civil speech and on what basis? Paging Big Brother.

Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed News reports.

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50 Campuses Highlight Israel’s Humanitarian Acts

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Posted by College Insurrection    Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 6:00pm

While Israel has been fighting back against Hamas terror tactics, and finally reaching a “truce”, there have been the usual anti-Israel demonstrations at several American campuses.

Israel Campus Beat writer Chloe Kent reports that 50 institutions are participating in a campaign celebrating Israel’s contributions to humanity.

As hundreds of rockets rain down on...

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College Textbook Industry Gets Disruptive Shock from Internet

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Posted by College Insurrection    Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 4:00pm

The internet may shake up the traditional collegiate business model beyond creating online degree and certification programs.

Via Instapundit
: In Technology Review, Michael Fitzgerald reports on an innovate approach to make digital versions of expensive textbooks available to cost-conscious students.

Ask Ariel Diaz why he’s taking on the college textbook industry and he’ll...

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Enterprising College Students Sell Services To Lazy Peers

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Posted by College Insurrection    Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 2:00pm

Capitalism is alive and well on America’s college campuses as some hard working students are offering their services to colleagues for a price. According to a new report at USA Today’s Money blog, business is booming.

Who will clean up after your children, do their laundry or bring them snacks when they...

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Cal State – Fresno spends $200k of NCAA money on iPads for student athletes

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Posted by College Insurrection    Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 12:00pm

California State University at Fresno is buying iPads for student athletes and using “special needs” funds to do it.

Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports.

Public university spends $200k of ‘special needs’ funds to purchase iPads for athletes

Administrators at a public university are spending at least $200,000 this semester purchasing Apple iPads for...

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Amherst’s Failure to Address Campus Sex Crimes

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Posted by College Insurrection    Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 10:00am

Campus security should be taken seriously by administrators at institutions of higher learning.

Unfortunately,  while some campus activities center on tasteless, sex-oriented activities, officials tasked to protect students from assaults also seem to to have taken a less th...

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SUNY student declares Thanksgiving the Greatest Holiday Known to Mankind

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Posted by College Insurrection    Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 8:00am

Happy Thanksgiving, College Insurrection readers!

State University of New York student Benjamin Schleider shares his enthusiasm for the holiday:

Perfection is an elusive noun. Rarely can something or someone be described as perfect, as much as I would love to apply the word to myself. However, on one specific Thursday in November, perfection...

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Retired Professor Laments Lack of “Union Slant” on PA University Boards

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Posted by College Insurrection    Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 5:30pm

The drum beat has already begun for faculty strikes at Pennsylvania State Universities and of course, it’s all for the children.

Walt Brasch of Newsitem has a solution. What Pennsylvania Universities need is more union representatives on their boards. That should solve the problem. Right?

University boards lack union slant

About one million Pennsylvanians...

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College Environmental Activists Target Big Oil on Campus

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Posted by College Insurrection    Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 3:30pm

These are the same students who will be protesting when tuition goes up because of the failure of “green” investments.

On a side note, when did college become more about activism than academics? Don’t these kids have classes to study for?

Danielle Charette of the College Fix reports.

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Cal. State system considers “Punishment Fees”

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Posted by College Insurrection    Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 1:47pm

The California State University (CSU) system is in a fiscal crisis, and is considering a draconian new measure to garner extra funds.

University of California – San Diego student Sharon Lay rails against the plan, which hits students unable to complete a full degree program within four years (which is about 70%...

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Dartmouth College Atheists Plan Mother Teresa Roast

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Posted by College Insurrection    Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 11:45am

‘Tis the season for atheists to start targeting Christian traditions.

The College Fix reports on an atheist event that manages to blend tasteless campus antics with progressive attacks on faith.

This one will leave you shaking your head in disgust.

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UNC Student – speech codes have rendered speech bland

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Posted by College Insurrection    Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 9:30am

As we’ve pointed out here at College Insurrection, it takes guts to be a conservative on some American college campuses. When you’re outnumbered not only by students but also faculty, it’s easy to rema...

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UK columnist — Fordham has “weird definition of who is and who isn’t a tasteful speaker”

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Posted by College Insurrection    Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 8:00am

Even the British press has noticed the hypocrisy of Fordham University President Joseph McShane’s decision to protest a talk by Ann Coulter while embracing a visit by infanticide advocate Peter Singer.

Tim Stanley of The Telegraph UK reports.

No sex with dolphins, please. We’re conservatives

Fordham University (an American college in the “Catholic tradition”)...

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UVA American Indian Student Union Hosts Anti-Thanksgiving Potluck

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 5:45pm

We regularly chronicle stories of professors who alter historical facts to press the progressive agenda.

Now, a group of students is altering a uniquely American tradition to deride the country’s “imperialism”.

Thanksgiving is based on notions of peace, friendship, and the spirit of giving, but of course college students and professors often look...

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MA Governor grants in-state tuition discount to illegals

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 4:13pm

Governor Deval Patrick has granted Massachusetts in-state tuition rates to people who are living in the United States illegally.

Just so we’re clear, this means that if you’re living in Massachusetts illegally, it doesn’t matter if you’re from Ireland, Mexico, Canada or Luxembourg.

You can attend the University of Massachusetts and pay a...

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Save America — Open your mind to the benefits of homeschooling.

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Guest Post by Jeanne Donovan    Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 3:00pm

After many decades of indoctrination in the teacher colleges, nearly half of the American population, taught by education school graduates, now embraces socialist ideas ranging from equality of results to authoritarian control of the means of production.

The number of people with these views will continue to grow so long as those...

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Equality Is Unconstitutional, Left-Leaning Federal Appeals Court Rules

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 1:30pm

On November 15, a federal appeals court, dividing along ideological lines in an 8-to-7 ruling, struck down a provision of the Michigan state constitution prohibiting racial preferences in state college admissions, in Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. Regents of the University of Michigan.

Voters approved the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative in...

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Cornell Insider — Why only protests against Israel, not China or Syria?

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 12:00pm

Hundreds of Cornell University students rallied Monday for dueling demonstrations in support of the two sides of the Israel/Gaza conflict.

The staff of the Cornell Insider pondered why the student efforts did not extend to other repressed peoples.

Since November 7, at least 14 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese...

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Anti-Israel protest at Stanford turns out only 35 students

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 11:00am

Taking their cue directly from the liberal media, some Stanford students recently took it on upon themselves to protest the “illegal Israeli occupation of Gaza.”

Ileana Najarro of The Stanford Daily reports.

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