Many political pundits are getting an early start to 2016 Presidential election predictions.
Despite a promise not to opine so early, Loyola University student Matthew Lamb explores one potential match-up and makes a startling assertion.
…In this hypothetical match-up, I look at how a possible 2016 match-up of Hillary Clinton vs. Rand Paul...
Not content with trying to divest from fossil fuels and Israel, higher ed is now setting its sights on tobacco.
Cory Weinberg of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Divestment From ‘Moral Evil?’
The Board of Trustees at the University of Pennsylvania will weigh an unusual question next month: Are tobacco companies “morally evil”?
If trustees decide...
Swarthmore College is one of the most notoriously liberal bastions in the country.
After four years, student columnist Tyler Becker recounts his experiences as a campus conservative.
…Sometimes I regret calling my column “The Swarthmore Conservative.” While I am a conservative, I have written about more than politics in this column. Certain issues...
It seems they’ll give an honorary degree to anybody these days.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
German University To Award Edward Snowden Honorary Doctorate
Heralding him as the “Columbus of the Digital Age,” faculty at a German university have voted to award NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden an honorary doctorate.
The decision was reached Wednesday...
A proposed minimum wage hike could make a bleak employment situation for young Americans even more dire.
School officials at college in Illinois are warning that if the state raises the minimum wage, the y will cut hours for student workers, Campus Reform reported.
“Right now, we are able to hire eight part-time...
It becomes ever more difficult to keep track of all the dumb things some college students are offended by. This one is a real hum-dinger.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reports.
‘Hump Day’ event cancelled after students claim bringing a camel to campus was racist
Students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota...
After the state legalizes the use of marijuana, one Colorado school offers a new, pot-based curriculum.
Its new “studies” program promises to put a new spin on the phrase, “higher education.”
Clover Leaf University in Colorado is offering an entire curriculum devoted to the study of cannabis, Campus Reform reported.
The new marijuana-themed institution...
Democratic politics 101:
Step 1. Create a problem.
Step 2. Offer a solution to the problem you created.
Peter Schroeder of The Hill reports.
Dems ready student loan push
Senate Democrats are preparing a June offensive on student loans meant to bolster the party’s 2014 election message.
Democrats will push for a vote on legislation to allow...
Grove City College student Claire E Healey files this report on one of the frontlines in the upcoming 2016 presidential election battles: American college campuses.
When Hillary Clinton visited Yale University last month to accept an award, 100 students signed up for a campus group dedicated to supporting likely her 2016 presidential...
In a recent article, Heather Mac Donald of National Review suggested that sexual assault controversies on campus today are in fact a creation of liberalism in higher ed.
The Obama Administration’s Deserving Victims
For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting...
Waynesburg University student Nika Anschuetz compares the media treatment given to two of football’s most publicized players.
….Michael Sam has been praised for being the first openly gay football player in the NFL. On May 11, Michael Sam was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round; he was the 249th...
File this story under it’s not fascism when we do it.
Michael Schaus of Townhall reported.
Professor Wants Climate Change “Deniers” Thrown in Jail
An assistant philosophy professor at Rochester Institute of Technology has proposed a bold plan to settle the debate on Global Warming. Lawrence Torcello wrote an essay suggesting that scientists who...
This week’s edition of “zero tolerance insanity” is going to make it challenging for one school’s fencing club to actually practice its sport.
The fencing club at North Dakota State University cannot hold practices on campus as a result of the school’s weapons policy, Campus Reform reported.
Members of the newly formed club...
This sort of thing has become an epidemic on college campuses. When is someone going to tell kids who do this to sit down and shut up or leave?
Hat tip to Instapundit. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Shouted Down at Portland State
Portland State University students hold an annual forum with...
The results of a new study do not bode well for campus safety statistics, especially in Colorado.
Underage college students are more likely to drive after smoking pot or to ride in a car with a driver who had, according to a recent study Reuters reported.
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts at...
Gee, I wonder if anyone will protest the appearance of an avowed communist with a criminal past?
Joseph Asch of Dartblog reports.
Show Tolerance for Angela Davis
Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, describes springtime as “disinvitation season” for speakers at American universities. The New York Times reports:
A week...
St. Thomas Aquinas College student Mairead McArdle recently decried the protest tactics seen in this video, which shows a group of students at Portland State University storming a panel and while chanting “we will not be silenced in the face of your violence” until the event was shut down.
McArdle has first...
According the Wall Street Journal, student loan debt is now up over 361% since 2003, topping the trillion dollar mark.
Anyone who doubts the reality of the higher ed bubble need look no further than the chart below.
I wonder if Catholic students will be forced to attend?
Starting this fall, incoming students at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government may be mandated to check their privilege at freshmen orientation, a student group has announced.
“The administration has officially expressed its desire to collaborate with us on designing a privilege training...
How could this happen? Aren’t there thousands of high paying jobs out there for someone with a degree in gender studies?
Hat tip to Instapundit. ABC 6 in Tennessee reports.
USC Upstate Trims Costs, Closes Gender Studies Center
SPARTANBURG, S.C – USC Upstate leaders say their strategic plan cuts $450,000 in administrative costs but...
We recently noted that Amherst College renewed a 30 year ban on sororities and fraternities.
And while there is an unfortunate tendency the limit the constitutional freedoms of students, such as the right to peaceful assembly and association, documents have been revealed that do not, perhaps, make the best case for reinstatement...
Olivia Nuzzi of The Daily Beast has some choice words for the class of 2014.
All I can add is… what she said.
The Oh-So-Fragile Class of 2014 Needs to STFU And Listen to Some New Ideas
As temperatures finally rise and trees bloom, the class of 2014 is preparing to don their caps...
