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June, 2013  (Page 2)

Berkeley builds new stadium, ends up $445 million in debt

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Posted by    Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 5:00pm

Let’s hope for the sake of Berkeley’s students that the school doesn’t try to solve this debt problem with a tuition increase.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.

Berkeley’s new stadium put it $445 million in debt

The University of California at Berkeley is struggling to pay off debts stemming from its fancy...

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Cringe-worthy Clueless College Student Video

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Posted by    Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 3:30pm

College Insurrection offers a lot of great insight and analysis from young American scholars.

Yet, most of our institutions of higher learning are decidedly liberal.  The “Circle of Mom’s #1  Political Blogger”, Lonely Conservative has some insight as to the reasons why, in her analysis of a video produced by the Media...

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New Hampshire Teacher: Stop Penalizing Boys Who Can’t Sit Still

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Posted by    Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 2:00pm

One of the points made in Dr. Helen Smith’s new book, Men on Strike: Why Men are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream — and Why It Matters is that the deck is stacked against boys in the American school system.

New Hampshire Jessica Lahey concurs in a controversial essay in ...

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Babson will apologize to Brandeis for 35-year old anti-Semitic soccer game slurs

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Posted by    Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 12:30pm

Soccer fans could be extremely nasty even over 3 decades ago:

Babson College plans to offer a formal apology for anti-Semitic actions taken by students 35 years ago before and during a crucial soccer game with Brandeis University.

The Boston Globe reports (http://bo.st/14X5BK9) that Babson President Len Schlesinger will apologize Wednesday. He’ll also...

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Radford University misspells Virginia on diplomas

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Posted by    Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 11:00am

Oops! Looks like somebody needs to go back to skool.

The Daily Mail UK reports.

That’s a FAIL in spelling for Radford University after it misspells Virgina (sic) and therto (sic) on student’s diplomas

Hundreds of Radford University graduates received diplomas in the mail over the weekend that had Virginia spelled incorrectly.

The university remained...

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George Washington U. student blasts Clarence Thomas as ‘Uncle Tom’ for affirmative action ruling

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Posted by    Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 9:30am

While Professor Jacobson indicated that Monday’s Supreme Court Ruling on affirmative action in the Fisher vs University of Texas – Austin case changed nothing, one can’t helped but be encouraged by the reaction of progressives.

As an example, the Campus Reform team captured one reaction on video:

Students at George Wash...

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College student unhappy she can’t breast feed during exams

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Posted by    Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 8:00am

Gosh, how could the college think a crying baby would distract the other students trying to take an exam? How insensitive of them.

Mary Fischer of The Stir reports.

College Student Complains She’s Not Allowed to Breastfeed During Exams

A mom of a 10-month-old baby girl is upset because she was not permitted to...

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Student facing jail time for NRA t-shirt issued gag order

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 6:30pm

And it gets worse. The reporter covering the story was threatened with arrest. College Insurrection has been following this story. Here’s the latest twist.

Charlo Greene of WOWK TV reports.

Prosecution attempts to silence Jared Marcum with gag order; reporter covering story threatened with arrest

WOWK has been the only...

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The Horror – College students forced to accept jobs they don’t want

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 5:00pm

Apparently no one has told Kirsten Gibson of Think Progress that there’s a college graduate unemployment crisis going on. Most people accept a job they don’t want right after college, that’s the way the world works.

Oh and keep voting for Democrats.

College Graduates Take Jobs They Don’t Want Every 5 Minutes

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Do you want to intern for The College Fix next fall?

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 3:30pm

Here at College Insurrection, we often link the College Fix for their informative news stories on academia from a conservative point of view.

If you’re a college student in DC, you could help them out as an intern next Fall but you better get a move on if you’re interested, the deadline...

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Georgetown releases video promoting Obama climate change speech

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 2:00pm

Pundits of the left and right all agreed that Obama’s recent speech in Berlin fell flat.

So what’s a poor president to do?  Go out and hype...

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Ohio University Study Shows Fracking = Growth

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Posted by College Insurrection    Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 12:30pm

Ever wonder why “low information voters” seem so clueless?

An Accuracy in Academia analysis showing the results of an Ohio university’s study on fracking, and how it was reported by a mainstream media entity, shows Americans who rely on traditional news sources are not fully informed.

A Cleveland State University study found that...

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Shock Experiment Shows Pot Smoking Leads to “Hooking Up”!

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Posted by College Insurrection    Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 11:00am

College Insurrection analyzed at the biochemistry of “hooking up”.

Now, a team of researchers reviewed an entirely different aspect of this trend.  Interestingly, the study was not done at Humboldt’s Marijuana Research Institute.

A study coming out of The Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine in Rhode Island that looked at nearly 500 incoming female freshmen...

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U. Colorado plans survey to find out if bias against conservatives exists

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 9:30am

Gee, I wonder if the liberals who are polled will finger themselves as bigots for discriminating against conservatives?

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.

Colorado university to survey bias against conservatives

The regents of the University of Colorado voted to initiate a survey of political bias th...

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New Jersey bans trash talk in high school sports

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 8:00am

Witness the latest development in nanny state everyone-gets-a-trophy culture. Psyching out the opposing team with chatter is no longer allowed because fairness.

Zenon Evans of Reason reports.

New Jersey Just Banned Trash Talking in High School Sports

Starting this fall, high school students in New Jersey who taunt each other during games will be...

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Shocker – Center for American Progress likes Common Core

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 6:30pm

If you’re wondering why progressives like Common Core, look no further than this College Insurrection post.

Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.

CAP Likes Common Core

There is an interesting split on the Left over the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms. Many on the educational Left dislike it, including the Modern Language...

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Florida Atlantic rehires Jesus-Stomping Instructor

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 5:00pm

Florida Atlantic University shows, once again, why it is #1,

#1 Winner of The College Stupidity Award, that is.

Earlier this year, we reported that  the school’s communications instructor Deandre Poole was placed on administrative leave after junior Ryan Rotela, a devout Mormon, was suspended from class because he complained about Poole’s Jesus-stomping...

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LGBT college group wants gay pride flag in hall of international flags

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 3:30pm

File this story under “Gay Pride”:

A group of students and faculty at LaGuardia Community College (LGCC) are pushing administrators to add the LGBT rainbow flag to a hall on campus which houses international flags.

LGCC, a public school located on New York’s Long Island, is currently displaying the famous LGBT rainbow flag...

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“Anal Hazing” invades American high schools

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 2:00pm

I didn’t think we’d ever find a more disturbing trend than butt chugging but here we are.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller has the story.

Anal hazing is apparently a thing in American...

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Yale and NYU put expansion over academic freedom

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 12:30pm

College Insurrection recently covered the story of NYU selling out a Chinese dissident over a lucrative deal with China.

Now Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post weighs in.

Yale, NYU sacrifice academic freedom

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng claims he is being booted from his apartment and his fellowship at New York University this month...

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Battle of the Bathrooms Involves First Grader

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 11:00am

It is hard to know which aspect of this case is most troubling: The fact a first grader has been deemed “transgendered” at such a young age or that a panel has agreed that gender-segregation of bathroom facilities creates a hostile environment.

The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens reports on a recent...

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America is headed towards the student debt cliff with no brakes

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 9:30am

Just in case you forgot, student loan debt in America now tops one trillion dollars and there’s no end in sight.

Adam B. Wolf of the Los Angeles Times writes.

Heading for the student debt cliff

Cable news channels regularly stoke their viewers’ fears about China holding $1.1 trillion of U.S. debt. But they’re...

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