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September, 2013  (Page 3)

Constitution-Distributing Student Reveals “Free Speech Zone” Realities

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 9:30am

We recently covered an incident involving a California student told by campus authorities that he could not pass out copies of the United States Constitution outside the student center on September 17, 2013—Constitution Day.

That student, Robert Van Tuinen, offers details on that incident and gives a perspective on the real First...

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Providence College cancels prof’s gay marriage talk

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 8:00am

Some liberal news sites are outraged by this but at the end of the day, Providence College is a Catholic school and the Catholic Church doesn’t approve of gay marriage. Sorry.

Michelle R. Smith of the AP reports via Boston.com.

RI Catholic school nixes gay marriage prof’s talk

Providence College, a Roman Catholic school,...

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Parent complaints force Tennessee school to end religious site field trips

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 6:30pm

What’s up with Tennessee?

We recently reported that parents had to complain to get pork back on the menu, after one Tennessee school tried to pull it from their program.

Now, a Tennessee school district is revis...

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Moody Bible Institute lifts alcohol and tobacco ban for employees

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 5:00pm

This story brings me back to my Catholic school days where pretty much everyone smoked and drank.

Sarah Pulliam Bailey of Religion News Service reports.

Moody Bible Institute drops alcohol and tobacco ban for employees

The Chicago-based evangelical Moody Bible Institute has dropped its ban on alcohol...

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Student Purgatory: Wyoming Catholic College Bans Cell Phones

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 3:30pm

One student recently opined that smartphones are dumbing down communications.

That won’t be a problem for scholars at a Wyoming institution, however:

Students at Wyoming Catholic College must surrender their cell phones to school administrators again this year due to the school’s technology policy, which requires all phones be locked in a box...

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Naval Academy Prof. criticizes sexual assault policy, gets treated like sex offender

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 2:00pm

The PC thought police are everywhere, even the Naval Academy. Daniel Wise of the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Naval Academy Professor Sanctioned for Criticizing Sexual Assault Policies

A popular U.S. Naval Academy professor says he was unfairly temporarily suspended from teaching after two students complained about his criticism of the school’s sexual...

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George Washington U. Student Now Wants Guns for Campus Cops

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 12:30pm

In the wake of the slaughter at the Navy Shipyard, one area student has developed a better appreciation for some of the unintended condequences of gun control laws:

Jarred Stancil, an international affairs sophomore at George Washington University, wants campus police officers to carry more than pepper spray and handcuffs. In the...

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Video – Baltimore Dad arrested for questioning Common Core at school meeting — charges later dropped

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 11:00am

This is a disturbing situation. A witness described the scene in an email she sent to Michelle Malkin.

“Parents, you need to question these people!:” Shock video of dad arrested at school meeting after challenging Common Core

I know you are vehemently against the Common Core standards that are being thrust upon our...

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Catholic Co-Eds Forced to Attend UCLA Condom Use Program

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 9:30am

File this story under “Sexual Scholarship”:

Alec Torres, the William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute, reports on a recent brouhaha at UCLA’s freshman orientation:

When two freshman sisters at UCLA were told their mandatory orientation on sexual harassment would include a section on sex education, they respectfully requested exemption from that...

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Collegiate Discrimination Styles: Greek (Bad) Administrative (Good)

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Guest Post by John S. Rosenberg    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 8:00am

The hot issue my freshman (and only) year at Washington & Lee University was whether the fraternities should integrate. There were no sororities, because there were no women students, and there were no blacks, because I was a freshman far enough back in the last century that racial integration had not...

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Hillsdale College Student: How The Syria Conundrum Could Have Been Avoided

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 6:30pm

As Syria’s Bashar Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin continue to publicly undermine the Obama Administration’s handling of the regional crisis, one student says this embarrassing international situation could have been readily avoided.

Hillsdale College student Dwinnell shares his perspective in TheCollegeConservative:

Regardless of what anyone believes is the “right approach” to the issues...

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Ohio State roommates discover another student living in their basement

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 5:00pm

This story is actually one of the plot points in Real Genius, one of the movies on College Insurrection’s top 10 college movies list.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.

Ohio State roomies find random student secretly living in their basement

This fall, a group of engineering students at The Ohio State University...

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U. of Tennessee Student Likens FDR to Titanic Captain

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 3:30pm

American history is often a target of substantial revision by progressive professors.

University of Tennessee student Adam Prosise, a senior in economics, takes a look at the Presidential administration of a perennial liberal favorite and draws an intriguing analogy:

The captain of the Titanic, Edward Smith, decided to cut through icy northern waters...

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Hamilton College sponsors “I Love Female Orgasm” workshop

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 1:30pm

Hamilton College in upstate New York certainly has a fascinating set of priorities.

It has driven the study of Western Civilization from its campus.  And organized racially-segregated diversity discussions.

Now, it is sponsoring an intriguing, new, biology-oriented program hosted by Hamilton’s “Womyn’s [sic]...

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U. of Iowa Establishing a Conservative Women’s Book Club on Campus

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 12:30pm

We recently reported that the campus leaders at University of North Carolona- Chapel Hill find conservative women unworthy to speak at their school.

On the other hand, conservative women may find the University of Iowa a less hostile environment:

One University of Iowa student is working toward creating an organization to empower conservative...

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Penn State suspends invasive health survey for faculty

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 11:00am

We have reported on Penn State’s invasive health survey for faculty and the penalties they would face if they refused to comply.

Now, Natasha Singer of the New York Times reports that the school has suspended the policy.

Health Plan Penalty Ends at Penn...

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Patrick Henry College Prof: Rape, Domestic Violence, Bullying Not Real Crimes

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 9:30am

Christian Patrick Henry College may be giving Florida Atlantic University some competition in the “Nuttiest Professor” category, after one of its faculty members offered a fairly insulting view how sex crimes are an invention fundamentalist Christians.

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UCSF fundraiser says Obamacare ‘non-believers’ should be denied healthcare

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 8:00am

Twitchy.com reports that a woman who works in the fundraising department at the University of California, San Francisco has written some venomous tweets about ‘non-believers’ in Obamacare.

Unhinged: UCSF fundraiser wishes death on all Obamacare ‘nonbelievers’; Nick Searcy shreds

The soulless and morally bankrupt Left is sickly at it again. As Twitchy reported,...

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A Voice for Male Students

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Guest Post by Jonathan Taylor    Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 6:00pm

My name is Jonathan Taylor. I am the founder of the website A Voice for Male Students and a former instructor of freshman composition and argumentation at Texas A&M University-Commerce. I’d like to thank Mr. Jacobson for inviting me to submit a guest post about my website, why I launched it,...

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U. of Idaho Student Says Smartphones Dumbing Down Communications

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Posted by    Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 5:00pm

Smartphones are an ubiquitous part of many American college campuses.

However, University of Idaho student Ryan Tarinelli says his fellow scholars are too smartphone dependent:

One can’t walk across the University of Idaho campus without seeing students hooked to their smartphones. But it’s not just college students that are entranced by smartphones, 56...

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Hillsdale Student says Conservatism Needs Punk Rock

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Posted by    Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 3:30pm

Conner Dwinell is a student at Hillsdale College and a writer for The College Conservative. In a new post, he suggests that conservatism needs punk rock. I couldn’t agree more.

Conservatism Needs… Punk Rock?

It has become inevitable.  Conservatism needs a new face and it appears that Republican leaders, despite their efforts, are...

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Successful Entrepreneur Gives 20-Year Olds Some Savvy Advice

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Posted by    Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 2:00pm

Jason Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc, which provides documents and resources to start, develop and expand small businesses.

His site has over 30 million members and 25 million monthly visitors, and in a recent Forbes article, he offers some savvy perspective to young Americans hoping to also be successful.

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