In a new op-ed at the New York Times, Professor Lucinda M. Finley decided that gun companies are responsible for gun violence and should have to pay blood money to victims of gun violence.
Gang bangers who shoot people in Chicago and other cities will presumably be free of said tax.
Make Gun...
The school got off pretty easy considering the severity of the scandal.
The College Fix reports.
UNC Off The Hook In Athletics Cheating Scandal
Monitoring? Yes. Sanctions? No.
One of the largest cheating scandals involving collegiate athletes has ended with a slap on the wrist. But students who took fake classes also have restitution of sorts.
The ...
After spending time at Dartmouth College, a visiting foreign scholars translation of her experience seem to bear little resemblance to reality.
Dartmouth alum Joseph Asch exlains:
Tanja Dückers, a widely known German writer who is currently teaching at the College, gives her take on Dartmouth’s social scene in a piece in the Süddeutsche...
American courts seem overwhelmed with affirmative action, faux weapon, and gender-preference-bathroom cases.
However, a recent supreme court ruling may have a potential impact on American lifestyles, vis-à-vis medical and scientific research. Harvard’s Crimson staff writer Fatima Mirza has the details.
While many in the scientific community lauded the Supreme Court’s ruling that naturally occurring...
The vile Westboro Baptist Church recently demonstrated on the campus of the University of Alabama. Susan Kruth of The FIRE explains while some students objected, this is the price we pay for free speech.
Why the University of Alabama Was Right Not to “Protect” Students From Westboro Baptist Church Demonstrations
Yesterday, University of...
This is one of those news stories that didn’t exist before the advent of social media. The student in question is suing the school system for a cool two million.
WSBTV of Georgia reports.
Administrator uses student’s bikini photo in Internet safety seminar
ATLANTA — To prove a point about the risks of social...
One may despair for the students at an institution that offers a course featuring “50 Shades of Grey”.
However, Derek Siegel of the American University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has a refreshing and weighty take on the meaning of “...
Women’s equality is one of America’s great achievements.
Yet 70% of American women today do not consider themselves “feminists.” In an American Enterprise Institute video, author and equity feminist Christina Hoff Sommers explains why the term is now reviled.
The video promotes Sommers’ new book, Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It...
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) official John K. DiPaolo may be the federal employee taking the most heat right now.
DiPaolo has been tasked with defending the constitutionally indefensible: The new Title IX sexual harassment rules. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reports from a conference session at which...
At the beginning of this month, a wonderful thing happened to the GOP. The Republican National Committee (RNC) pried away one of Facebook’s top engineers — Andy Barkett, if you want his name — by naming him its chief technology officer. Barkett’s overarching goal in the coming months will be to...
Legal Insurrection has offering regular coverage of the ongoing protests in Turkey.
Columbia University undergraduates have joined the protesters in Istanbul. Tracey Wang, a Columbia Spectator Senior Staff Writer, files the following report:
Nergiz Ada Yilmaz, SEAS ’16, was in Gezi Park in Istanbul on May 31 when a thick fog started spreading...
The University of California – San Diego is academic home to some of the country’s best and brightest young scientists.
One of its students, Angel Au-Yeung, has some serious concerns about a new innovation that is about to hit the market: Google Glass.
With the advent of Google Glass — a pair of...
Students are off for the summer, hitting the beaches instead of the books.
Huffington Post contributor Alexandra Mayzler for GalTime.com offers these steps to stay sharp and ready for classes in the fall.
1. Numbers and words with friends. Students are spending a ton of time with technology. Encourage them to play vocabulary or math...
Of course, union boss Karen Lewis is vehemently opposed to charter schools because school choice means the union gravy train would stop.
By the way, you know that stereotype about the fat union boss? Yeah…
Joseph Asch of Dartblog reports.
Dartmouth Chicago Smackdown
The American Enterprise Institute is launching a new Center on Higher Education Reform (CHER).
The College Fix has a summary:
Led by founding director and resident scholar Andrew P. Kelly, the center will conduct independent, data-driven research and analysis designed to inform policymaking and shape the higher education reform conversation.
“At...
This is a perfect example of the two Americas in which we now live. Government elites live by one set of rules and average working Americans live by another.
Paul Singer of USA Today reports. H/t to George Leef of National Review.
Taxpayers pay millions for fed workers’ student...
Watching this video should make you want to bang your head against a wall. While a couple of the students interviewed say they voted for Romney, the majority of them are Obama supporters.
Via CNS News. H/t to Allahpundit.
For many college students, finishing degrees starts with applying for food stamps or taking advantage of campus food banks.
Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed has some information on a nonprofit group that directs financially strapped...
File this story under “Science is Fun”!
Perhaps it’s every kid’s dream – as they slave away at their obligatory school science project – that their findings will rock the scientific community.
Well, it just so happens – that happened!
A group of ninth-graders at a school in Denmark tried...
Young people should be reminded that they have an alternative to student loan debt by serving their country and it sounds like this program fits the bill.
Cpl. Sarah Wolff-Diaz of the Marine Corps Base at Camp Pendleton reports.
College students experience Navy, Marine Corps training
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. —
More than 500 students from...
Remember when the top priority of the academic science community was the study of science? Good times, good times.
Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reports.
Feds give Duke $1.8M to increase diversity of its scientists
Duke University has received $1.8 million from the federal government in order to increase “diversity” in its ranks of...
Student loan interest rates are poised to double on July 1.
TheCollegeConservative contributor Tanner Brumbarger is critical of Democratic Party leadership claims that this situation is a “winner” .
According to Democrat Charles Schumer, student loans are a “messaging winner...
