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December, 2012  (Page 9)

Young Americans for Freedom reaches 100!

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 9:30am

College Insurrection would like to offer our congratulations to Young America’s Foundation which now has Young Americans for Freedom chapters at over 100 schools.

Keep up the great work!

Kate Edwards reported the good news at the YAF blog.

More Than 100 Schools Now Home to YAF Chapters

May 2011 was an exciting time for...

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Columbia Prof’s crazed YouTube rant against tax-fighter Grover Norquist

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 8:00am

Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, isn’t getting a lot of love from the elite Beltway types nowadays.

First, on Sunday’s This Week, ABC News/NPR veteran Cokie Roberts said, “It’s..

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O’Reilly mocks Fordham over Coulter cancellation

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 3, 2012 at 10:12pm

Bill O’Reilly and Jesse Watters covered the cancellation of Ann Coulter’s speech at Fordham.

We detailed the full history of the events at Shame on Fordham. We also addressed the issue of Peter Singer’s appearance, Fordham struggles to defend condemning Ann Coulter, while embracing infanticide supporter Peter Singer.

The segment was fairly...

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‘Tis the season…for another vacuous liberal comparing Obama to Christ!

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 3, 2012 at 6:00pm

A few weeks ago, entertainer Jamie Foxx was roundly criticized for referring to the newly re-elected Barack Obama as “our Lord and Savior” while trying to gin up enthusiasm for the President during the Soul Train awards show.

Saint Anselm College student Caitlyn Jarvis has a few observations about another artist whose...

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U.VA student — ” Ron Paul was the only principled man on the Hill who offered a vision for normalcy”

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 3, 2012 at 4:17pm

Robert Mogni of the Virginia Advocate says he’s not a Ron Paul fanatic. Even so, he was moved by Ron Paul’s farewell address and says that the Republican Party would be wise to remember his message.

In short, a little more libertarianism wouldn’t hurt the GOP.

Ron Paul and the GOP

Sometimes I have forgotten...

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CUNY Prof. — American History distorted by focus on victimization

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 3, 2012 at 12:54pm

Between making heroes of genocidal tyrants and demonizing America’s founders, sometimes it seems that when real history makes it into the progressive classrooms, then it is purely coincidental.

David Gordon of the City University of New York takes a look about the current state of history in higher education that places too...

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The one subject which is off limits on campus

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 3, 2012 at 10:53am

As we saw with the recent debacle at Fordham University, even Jesuit schools bow to liberal campus activists.

With that in mind, why should anyone be surprised that colleges with no religious affiliation would have any respect for Christianity?

Jennifer Kabbany reports a new survey on the subject from the College Fix.

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Student loan bailout would consume 62% of new Obama taxes

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 3, 2012 at 9:30am

As we approach the fiscal cliff, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was on the Suday talk shows informing that no deal would be made without higher marginal tax rates.

Yet, it seems that the money is already spent. There is currently a proposal for a “Student Loan Forgiveness Act“; Paul Bedard of the...

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Purdue professor leads revolt over pricey college bureaucrats

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 3, 2012 at 8:00am

It seems college administrators who make the school budgets are the last to make sacrifices when hard fiscal choices have to be made.

John Hechinger of Bloomberg.com reports on one professor’s fight against administrative bloat.

J. Paul Robinson, chairman of Purdue University’s faculty senate, strode through the halls of a 10- story concrete-and-glass...

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Prof. Bainbridge — Save us from lefty law school clinics

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Posted by    Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 6:58pm

Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge of UCLA law school ponders the distinctly left-wing nature of law school clinics.

As someone in the mix, I can tell you that generally speaking, he’s right.  The “social justice” movement is the heart of law school clinical education, and that almost always means liberal causes.  It’s not...

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“Bow and Arrow” used in WY campus murder/suicide

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 3:14pm

There has always been a vigorous debate about the necessity of campus gun control laws, especially after the Virginia Tech massacre in which...

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George Will — Colleges have campus speech on the run

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 1:05pm

In their rush for “diversity” and “inclusion”, American campus policies have endangered First Amendment free speech rights.

In his most recent article, Washington Post columnist George Will chronicles many varied cases of campus political harassment, notes that speech code enforcement is essentially a tool to ensure bureaucrat employment,...

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Fees gone wild at Brown

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 11:00am

You would think Brown University’s $42,000 tuition would be enough to cover a student’s education but you’d be wrong. Brown students are apparently hit with numerous fees before they’ve cracked a book.

Ryan Fleming of the Brown Spectator reports.

Fee University

Perkins Hall, a freshman dorm located far from the c...

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“Holiday Tree” doesn’t fly at North Carolina college

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 9:30am

It’s that time of year again.

Officials at Western Piedmont Community College recently changed the word “Christmas” to “holiday” in a student club’s announcement of a Christmas Tree sale intended for charity.

MORGANTON, N.C. — Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter Tuesday to Western Piedmont Community College after college officials replaced “Christmas” with...

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The hazards of coming out of the closet…..as a conservative professor

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 8:00am

Independent conservatives are an endangered species among faculty members on American campuses.

Cal State-Northridge professor Robert Oscar Lopez, author of  The Colorful Conservative: American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman who has gained notoriety recently for a piece on about same-sex parenting as it relates to his own upbringing...

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Rutgers School of Law Newark Raises The Party Bar

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 6:00pm

Via Ann Althouse, a story of Animal House proportions at Rutgers School of Law Newark.

It seems the drinking at this year’s buddy mixer got a little out of control.

I hereby dub the...

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Princeton student schools Thomas Friedman on what it means to be pro-life

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 4:00pm

Read below as Thomas Z. Horton of The Princeton Tory takes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times to school on what it really means to be pro-life.

The Real Pro-Life Stance

Being pro-life means more than opposing abortion.  This much Thomas Friedman observed in his New York Times

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In Defense of Being Offensive On Campus and Elsewhere

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 12:30pm

The Fordham University handling of the Ann Coulter talk shows that for independent conservatives, the usual campus rules regarding diversity and free speech do not apply.

In the Huffington Post, Will Creeley, the Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) introduces this video produced by FIRE:

Creely discusses...

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Columbia Prof of gender and sexuality law opines on public sex scandals, you can guess the rest

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 11:00am

Columbia University may want to ask Katherine Franke to stop making public statements. While opining on the recent sex scandals of David Petraeus and Kevin Clash who provides the voice of Sesame Street’s Elmo character, Franke suggested that both men are “victims” of sexual panic.

From there, Ms. Franke just kept digging...

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School Quotas and Speech Codes May Result From Senate Amendment to Defense Bill

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Posted by    Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 9:13am

Suing schools and colleges has nothing to do with supporting our troops.

But that didn’t stop Senators from seeking to add an amendment, SA 3215, to the 2013 Defense Authorization bill on Thursday, containing provisions that would overturn two Supreme Court rulings in order to promote such lawsuits. The amendment, proposed by...

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Trinity College forces fraternities and sororities to go coed

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 8:00am

Universities are pushing actions that force “gender inclusion” upon its students.

Cornell University recently passed a resolution to implement “gender-neutral housing“. At the University of Texas – Arlington, there is a cry for “

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