City University of New York Professor Ruth O’Brien complains in an op-ed that “too much force” had been used against Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by the police.
The College Fix offers this excerpt from her piece:
Now we have captured the two terrorists from Chechnya who come from the troubled...
We are covering Dartmouth College’s cancellation of classes, which was apparently prompted by a series of threatening and abusive online posts in the wake of the protest accusing the school of “sexism, racism, capitalism, hate”.
Instead of classes, a “social justice and diversity” consultant will speak in Dartmouth Hall. Students Nicholas S....
Campus Reform is covering the aftermath of a student protest, which is featured in this video that is directed at perspective students:
The video, which was published by a new Dartmouth school group calling itself “#realtalk,” is set to a 1964 Ella Baker song which evokes a time when “killing of Black...
Good thing the students at the University of Michigan School of Public Health are getting a fact based education in disaster management.
Who cares about real emergency scenarios when there’s pop culture to celebrate?
CBS News reports.
“Zombies” invade University of Michigan campus
You can learn a lot from a zombie.
At least that’s what a...
If you’re an American, this may seem ridiculous but Iceland is a country with a small population and an even smaller gene pool.
Nidhi Subbaraman of NBC News reports.
Anti-incest app built by Iceland college students
A group of students at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík have created an Android app that prevents...
Students across the nation’s campuses are still struggling to make sense of the events in Boston.
Julia Greenwald, a sophomore in the School of Communication at American University, shares her thoughts in the student newspaper:
I read tweets about an explosion at the Boston Marathon shortly after the attack took place. Then videos...
College and universities frequently hold large-scale, public events.
So, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, many institutions are reviewing their security measures. Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed has an analysis:
In the weeks and months following Monday’s shocking bombing at the Boston Marathon, in which three people were killed —...
Three universities responded to threats of bombs or reports of suspicious packages on Monday by shutting down or quarantining affected parts of the campuses.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform summarizes the reports:
Among these were San Francisco State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa.
In each instance, however, local police ultimately...
Someone at Rutgers University recently got caught pushing liberal immigration policy to students.
Elissa Roberson of The College Conservative has the story.
To Whom It May Concern: Rutgers University Is Clueless
In a message to TCC staff, an anonymous student at Rutgers University forwarded an e-mail from the University’s VP of Public Affairs encouraging...
Taxpayers are constantly told that more money is needed for education but how often do they hear about allegations like this?
Patrick Marley and Karen Herzog of the Journal Sentinel report.
Outrage grows as University of Wisconsin System admits it ‘did not draw attention’ to cash
Trying to balance damage control and candor, University...
Search team divers found the body of one of two missing Virginia State University Monday afternoon, about 400 yards from where the freshman were last spotted in the Appomattox river.
The responders are still looking for the second student.
During these events, the school implemented a mandatory curfew on its...
Few things go together more completely than college campuses and beer.
So it is not surprising that one school’s science scholars figured how to incorporate brews into research. Eric Owens of The Daily Caller has the details:
Beer pong is an excessively efficient way to drink way too much beer. Turns out it’s...
Nowadays, it seems the business of college is business.
As a weak California economy is straining school budgets, even administrators at one of the most famously liberal state institutions are not likely to base fiscal decisions on trendy student movements. Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform explains:
The University of California – Berkeley (CAL)...
Last month, John Stossel of the FOX Business Network did a special on education.
If you missed it, you can watch the entire episode below.
Hat tip to Common Cents.
Normally, Texas is about as different from California as a state can be.
However, that is about to change…and not in a good way. Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports that a Texas bill drops alegbra; California recently gave up this traditional math requirement.
The Tex...
Ah, Saturday was April 20 again, Marijuana Day.
I’d like to say nothing ticks me off more than a lazy hippie lost drifting between clouds. But the degradation of culture always seems to out do itself lately.
To every person smoking marijuana on 4:20 or any other day I have this to say, YOU DIRECTLY...
And the anti-gun madness continues.
Charlo Greene of WOWKTV reports.
8th grade student suspended, arrested over gun t-shirt
When 8th grade Jared Marcum got dressed for school on Thursday he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment shirt would initiate what he calls a fight over his First Amendment rights.
“I never thought...
Via Instapundit, we learned of this delightful sounding group of progressive academic activists who recently held their first meeting.
Jay Schalin of the John William Pope Center reports.
Faculty Attack Squad
“Fascists,” “bums,” and “killing machines.”
That’s how conservatives and Republicans were described at the initial meeting of a new organization of faculty members in...
This is just the sort of civil debate we’ve all come to know from the left, isn’t it?
Noel Sheppard of News Busters reports.
NYU Adjunct Professor: ‘Does Mitch McConnell Have to Get Shot to Support Gun Control?’
As NewsBusters reported last week, the CEO and editor-at-large of Foreign Policy magazine claimed Senate Minority...
No campus is safe from the leftist divestment movement and it seems Dartmouth is the latest ivy to be ensnared by its grip.
Nicholas P. Desatnick of Dartlog reports.
Divest Dartmouth and the Lunacy to Come
The state of campus capitalism is in disarray. Slowly but surely, America’s free enterprise system has been bleeding...
If you’re like most Americans, you don’t watch MSNBC. Luckily, we have folks like Jeffrey Meyer of News Busters to watch for us.
MSNBC Brings On Harvard Professor to Speculate ‘Far Right’ May Be Responsible For Boston Attack
The media’s irresponsible speculation regarding the perpetrator of the terrorist attack in Boston seems to...
Students from across the nation are reflecting on the recent terror attack in Boston and its aftermath.
St. Louis University student Amy Lutz takes a look at the concept of evil as it relates to these events:
When did we stop acknowledging evil and try to justify or explain it instead?
I find myself...
