College Insurrection readers, following our reports on Dartmouth College, would not be surprised by the news that it inspired the hit movie, Animal House.
Now, the New York Times takes a detailed look at the school’s “majoring in fun” reputation.
The drinking problems have flared into view just as the reality might be...
The University of Wisconsin is awfully concerned about which pronouns their students prefer.
George Leef of National Review has the story.
‘Diversity Training’ at Wisconsin
Today’s Wall Street Journal includes as its “Notable & Quotable” feature this excerpt from a letter by grad student at the University of Wisconsin regarding the “diversity training” he...
Fossil fuels divestment is a hot new liberal trend on college campuses largely driven by student activists. In a recent announcement, Harvard President Drew Faust explained why Harvard will not be divesting any time soon.
Fossil Fuel Divestment Statement
Dear Members of the Harvard Community,
Climate change represents one of the world’s most consequential...
Conservative activist and Campus Reform contributor Caleb Bonham recently asked some Colorado students about the violence against women depicted in the video game, Grand Theft Auto V.
The results were striking:
As the entertainment industry continues to embraces mankind’s deepest, darkest, most vile fantasies will you support it?
A number of students at Colorado...
The Foundation for Individual Tights in Education just announced Octobers Speech Code of the Month.
The recipient: Salem State University.
The Guide to Living on Campus for Massachusetts’ Salem State includes a Policy Against Racism (PDF) that applies to all students living in the university’s residence halls, spaces where students often speak the...
U. of Southern Maine is latest institution to consider closing its physics department due to a combination of tight money and low major numbers.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports on this trend, and what it may mean for the future of American physics.
If physicists ask some of the biggest possible...
As the 2014 election season gears up, Baylor University student Danny Huizinga reviews a key race that conservatives should follow:
After 17 years of Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Illinois will see a new conservative challenger – Doug Truax.
Truax, a West point grad, has never run for office before. He founded Veritas Risk...
One of the most stunning developments during the trial of George Zimmerman was the discovery of how poorly educated the star witness for the prosecution was, as she admitted she was unable to read cursive.
Now, radio show host Tom Joyner has offered Rachel Jeantel a full university scholarship with the stipulation...
President Obama gave an economics-based speech at Knox College recently:
Wabash College student Christian Lopac noted it was “Einsteinian”…and not in a good way:
Most know the Einstein quip defining insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Fewer know that by this popular and valid definition President Obama’s...
Given the wide system failures associated with the rollout of the Obamacare exchanges, the administration was quick to show at least one success story featuring a Chattanooga State U. student.
Just moments after writing a blog post Thursday morning, about the lack of information on Obamacare enrollees, Enroll America reached out with...
Does this sound like satire? It isn’t. The emphasis below is mine.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Government shutdown curbs academic research at many levels
WASHINGTON — A wide range of academic research across the country, from sophisticated biomedical experiments at the National Institutes of Health to undergraduate political science essays, was...
As the heated debates on Obamacare and the government shutdown continue, Hillsdale College student Hank Prim looks at use of social media by Senator Ted Cruz and what it may mean for conservatives.
Anyone that logged into Facebook or Twitter or any social media outlet in twenty-four hours during and following Senator...
In the academic bubble, it’s almost like Barack Obama was never elected.
Twice.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
Universities Nationwide Champion Trayvon Martin, Claim Racism Still Exists
Universities have gone gaga for Trayvon Martin, heralding the young man’s death as an iconic symbol of a racist, unfair America, according to a long and growing list of...
A psychologist once classified “zero tolerance” policies as “psychotic”.
The merits of that opinion are confirmed with this piece by The Daily Caller’s Robby Soave:
The arrests of several students who unwittingly and accidentally violated school weapon policies has some Georgian lawmakers saying “zero tolerance” makes zero sense.
A Cobb County high school senior...
Just another example of the liberal media giving a megaphone to an anti-Israel academic.
Tamar Sternthal of Camera.org reports.
The LA Times’ Ongoing Assault on Israel
The editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times continues its ongoing assault on the legitimacy of the state of Israel with an Op-Ed yesterday by radical academic Neve Gordon...
It seems the fun, new trend on college campuses is to create sex-oriented events based on concerns about “student health”.
Recently, Hamilton College hosted a workshop on female orgasms. The University of South Carolina just held a “Porn and Pizza” party.
Now Cornell is holding a fashion show feature Condom Couture.
Cornell’s student reporter...
An interesting new study hows that the differences in the types of high schools boys and girls attend may contribute to the college gender gap.
Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed explains:
Recent research has suggested various ways in which girls outperform boys in high school, making them more likely to go to...
Haven’t we been down this road before?
CBS Los Angeles reports.
OC High School Student Ordered To Remove NRA T-Shirt Because It Promotes Gun Violence
A student at a high school in Anaheim Hills said administrators ordered her to change out of a T-shirt that promoted the National Rifle Association.
Sophomore Haley Bullwinkle said when...
If one were to crunch the numbers, it is likely more porn stars are invited to speak at American colleges than conservatives.
That being noted, New York University (the home of the “Hookup Facebook Page”) recently hosted an event that featured one of the porn industry’s biggest stars for an appearance that...
Given the government shutdown, Baylor University student Danny Huizinga takes a look at a possible solution for replacing some of its services successfully.
This week, Britain announced that it would soon be privatizing its postal service, the Royal Mail. Estimated to be worth nearly three billion pounds ($4.8 billion dollars), the Royal Mail will...
America is a nation of immigrants and that’s one of the many things which makes it great but academia is allowing people who broke our immigration laws to cut in line.
How is that fair to the people who struggled to come to America legally?
The College Fix reports.
More Universities Now Admit Undocumented...
The last time we checked in with the University of Pennsylvania’s Anthea Bulter, she was upset over the harsh reaction to her assertion that God a white racist.
Her opinion on the current government shutdown is no less senseless.
Anthea Butler, everybody’s favorite Ivy League professor, blamed Republican racism for the government shutdown...
