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April, 2013  (Page 9)

Congress Seeks Billions to Avoid Doubling College Student Loan Rates

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Posted by    Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 6:00pm

Just a reminder – these are the same people who are taking over the healthcare industry.

Wynton Hall of Breitbart reports.

Congress Seeks $6 Billion to Keep College Loan Rate from Doubling

Subsidized Stafford student loan interest rates will double on July 1st for loans taken out by new students entering college. President Barack...

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UK Writer – Young People Need Jobs More Than College

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Posted by    Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 4:30pm

Gosh, there’s something so familiar about this story.

The awesomely named Allister Heath of the Telegraph UK reports.

Tell youngsters the truth: the UK needs you to work not go to university

Tragically, as yet more data reveal, the decision to massively increase the number of school-leavers going to university, wrongly assuming that this...

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Unemployment Rate for Millennials Skyrockets

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Posted by    Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 2:30pm

If you figure the number of people who have left the workforce into the March jobs report, the unemployment rate for 18 to 29 year olds has reached a staggering 16.2%.

Tony Lee of Breitbart reports.

Losing Hope: Effective Millennial Unemployment Rate At 16.2%

A dismal March jobs report that saw 663,000 Americans completely...

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Stanford joins Harvard and MIT in system development for free online courses

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Posted by    Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 12:30pm

Stanford University is teaming of with two venerable East Coast institutions to develop a computer system allowing colleges to offer free online courses.

Ry Rivard of Insider Higher Ed has details on the collaboration that school officials said would benefit both educators and students around the globe.

Stanford University, the epicenter of the...

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Law schools tie a “Yellow Ribbon” on programs helping war veterans

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Posted by    Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 10:30am

Some American campuses are not known for being particularly welcoming to the military.

However, institutions across the country are now giving those who have served our country some important benefits, helping them to obtain law degrees.

As veterans look to build lives beyond the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, those opting for a...

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U. Chicago Demolishes Reagan’s Childhood Home

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Posted by    Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 8:30am

College Insurrection reported on this back in December. Following that report, there was speculation over whether or not this would actually happen.

Well, it has happened. Laura Byrne of Red Alert Politics reports.

University of Chicago destroys Ronald Reagan’s boyhood home

It’s a nightmarish scene to watch footage of cranes with giant metal claws ...

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Bowdoin College Offers Course on ‘Queer Gardening’

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Posted by    Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 7:30am

Lay aside the fact that job prospects are grim for college graduates and ignore the fact that college tuition levels have spiraled out of control.

Can you think of a more useless college course than this one?

What an utter waste of time and money.

Alec Torres of The College Fix reports.

College Teaches Course...

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UC-Riverside Prof Links High Suicide Rates with Republicans, Gun Owners

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Posted by    Friday, April 5, 2013 at 7:00pm

Progressive instructors seem to be the most creative when they are  smearing Republicans and American values.

For example, one California professor recently published a “study” that managed to link suicide rates to the Republic Party and gun ownership.

A new study published by a University of California sociology professor links the risk of...

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George Will – Schools Are Pushing Liberal Propaganda

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Posted by    Friday, April 5, 2013 at 5:45pm

If you read College Insurrection, you’re already well aware of the rampant liberal indoctrination on the campuses of American schools.

Even so, this article by George Will at the Washington Post will blow your mind.

Schools push a curriculum of propaganda

The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education...

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McDonald’s “College Grad Job Ad” listing “fake but accurate”

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Posted by    Friday, April 5, 2013 at 4:30pm

One of the most popular ads for McDonald’s was this ’70’s classic, “You deserve a break today.”

Now, it seems, the world famous fast food chain is actually planning to give all young Americans a break from unemployment…not just college graduates.

One McDonald’s franchise’s job listing recently created an internet sensation when it...

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Gay Students Seek Campus Chaplain’s Removal from George Washington U.

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Posted by    Friday, April 5, 2013 at 3:00pm

Two gay seniors at George Washington University are working to remove the chaplain at George Washington’s Newman Center, because they are upset over the priest’s views on homosexuality and abortion.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller has the details on the students’ response to the chaplain’s stances that are based on...

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Northwestern U. hopes “the Force” is with its “Sex Week”

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Posted by    Friday, April 5, 2013 at 1:30pm

In the galaxy of “Sex Week” events across the nation, one school is featuring a movie classic to make their program stand out from the rest.

Campus Reform’s Katherine Timpf has a report on Northwestern University’s program, which will include “Big Booty Beauties,” a pornographer, and Star Wars-themed burlesque dancers.

Northwestern University (NU)...

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Stanley Kurtz – What’s the Matter With Vassar?

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Posted by    Friday, April 5, 2013 at 12:06pm

In a recent post at National Review, Stanley Kurtz examined the progressive “divestment” movement at Vassar.

Unfortunately, this is happening on many college campuses.

What’s the Matter With Vassar?

A sad and at times bizarre story out of Vassar shows how profoundly troubled America’s colleges now are. The campus fossil-fuel divestment campaign that’s swept...

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Video: Students on Spring Break talk about liberal campus bias

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Posted by    Friday, April 5, 2013 at 9:30am

Here’s an entertaining and informative report on Spring Break from Jesse Watters of The O’Reilly Factor.

Via the Washington Free Beacon.

 
 
 

Video: Woman Destroys Pro-Life Display at Ohio State

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Posted by    Friday, April 5, 2013 at 8:00am

This is stunning to watch.

A young woman, presumably a student at Ohio State, completely wrecks a pro-life display which had just been set up on campus.

Todd Starnes of FOX News Radio has the story.

Vandal Destroys Pro-Life Display at Ohio State

An enraged  college student destroyed a pro-life display at Ohio State University...

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Law School Grads Sue Schools Over Lack of Jobs

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Posted by    Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 5:45pm

With the higher education bubble bursting, some law students are blaming law schools for deceiving them into attending based on false post-graduation job numbers.

Maura Dolan of the Los Angeles Times reports.

Class action: Law school grads claim misleading reports of success

SAN FRANCISCO — Dozens of law graduates across the nation have joined...

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Farrakhan’s Tuskegee U. Speech Spins Paranoia

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Posted by    Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 4:15pm

When we last reported on Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan, he was headed to to Tuskegee University, despite concerns expressed about the “bigoted and anti-Semitic” positions he has publicly advocated.

Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports that his scheduled speech contained the level of sanity and reason we expect from Farrakhan:

The...

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Oregon Prof. Warns of Bad Karma for Scalping Tickets to See Dalai Lama

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Posted by    Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 2:45pm

Regardless of your religious background, scalping tickets to see a well respected holy man can’t be good for your spiritual health.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller has the story.

Dalai Lama ticket scalpers attract bad karma says Oregon prof

How much would you pay to see the 14th and current Dalai Lama himself?...

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Professor Glenn Reynolds Discusses Higher Education Bubble

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Posted by    Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 1:19pm

University of Tennessee’s law professor Glenn Reynolds was one of the first to identify the “Higher Education Bubble“.

The air is being let out of the college education system, as the fiscal rewards for obtaining degrees are becoming less than the amount of money needed to graduate.  During an Atlanta Federal Reserve...

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Prof receives $100k federal grant for social media study

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Posted by    Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 11:30am

They are serving up a big helping of pork at an Indiana campus.

Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports that one university professor has scored a big grant for a project that would be the dream of many American students,  ‘observing the world through the lenses of social media’.

A professor at...

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New Idaho law prevents religious freedom from being sacrificed to “Diversity”

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Posted by    Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 10:00am

We covered the case of Vanderbilt University’s Christian groups being exiled from campus, using “inclusion” as the excuse to force these organization to meet requirements that go against their faith.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reports that Idaho lawmakers have passed legislation that will prevent this situation from occurring...

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Students to BC President – Vagina Monologues Undermines Jesuit Mission

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Posted by    Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 8:40am

Students in BC’s Observer newspaper recently wrote an open letter to Boston College President, Fr. William Leahy, regarding an ongoing performance of the controversial play The Vagina Monologues.

Open Letter to Father Leahy

Dear Fr. Leahy,

The Women’s and Gender Studies Program’s recent production of The Vagina Monologues– a play that has been widely...

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