You can be sure some people will lose their jobs over this, not to mention jail time.
Seth Slabaugh of the Indy Star reports.
Ball State University writes off $12.6 million from scam
A report released Friday by a former federal prosecutor who investigated the Ball State University investment scandal does not include what...
Timothy Boatwright, who was born female but identifies as male, got along perfectly well at the all-women Wellesley College, until Wellesley students decided he couldn’t be Multicultural Affairs Coordinator: they said it felt “inappropriate to have a white man there.”
Katherine Timpf at The National Review has the story:
Students: Transgender Woman Can’t...
It’s very smart for colleges to be on high alert. Any time you have so many people living so closely, diseases can spread rapidly.
Katherine Mangan of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
As Ebola Fears Touch Campuses, Officials Respond With an ‘Excess of Caution’
Colleges across the country faced Ebola scares this week...
According to eyewitnesses, the ruckus began when drunk students began throwing things–apparently, anything they could drunkenly get their hands on. Police showed up in riot gear and used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Arrests, injuries reported in riot at New Hampshire college during autumn festival
Police in southwestern New Hampshire used tear...
George Will is the new object of the left’s two minutes hate.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reported.
Women’s Studies Professors Pitch Tantrum Over George Will Appearance
Syndicated columnist George F. Will is scheduled to speak this week at Miami University and professors in the public school’s women’s, gender and sexuality studies program...
These students might as well hold a “raise our tuition” rally. What’s the difference?
Maygan Beeler of The Post reports.
Senate’s agenda passes, moving forward
Student Senate passed a multi-pronged resolution Wednesday that calls on Ohio University President Roderick McDavis’ administration to enact several bold policies, such as the establishment of a $15 minimum...
For liberals, identity politics trump finding solutions to a problem.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reported.
Liberal student flips out after white guys lead university’s anti-sexual assault campaign
One might think that efforts to end sexual assault on campus would be cheered by all students, left-leaning ones included. Usually they are – unless said...
I’ll take “That’s totally going to happen at a school where 50% of students are Greek affiliated” for 1000 Alex.
The Editorial Board at The Dartmouth writes:
Verbum Ultimum: Abolish the Greek System
As the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” steering committee prepares its recommendations for College President Phil Hanlon and the Board of Trustees, we urge...
Nothing brings out a crowd like offering something for free.
Joey Garrison of The Tennessean reported.
35,000 Tennessee students apply for free community college
If there’s a single moment that has best captured the rush to attend community college for free in Tennessee, it probably came at Motlow State last month.
The Lynchburg, Tenn., school...
After asking students “Hey, do you think big government sucks?” outside of Broward College’s ‘Free Speech Zone’, Lauren Cooley, an activist for Turning Point USA, was forced to leave the campus or be arrested for trespassing.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix reports:
Conservative activist kicked off campus after asking if ‘big...
Being attacked by a gang is certainly not what most people would anticipate on a college campus.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reported.
Gang Of Men Is Viciously Beating People At Random At The University Of Illinois
Over the last two weekends, a group or groups of black men have...
I just really liked the headline from this Washington Post article.
By Mark Berman:
Syracuse University bravely saves students from exposure to journalism
Michel du Cille, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, was recently in Liberia to cover the Ebola outbreak. He is back in the United States now, and he was supposed to go to...
The Stanford Review is that campus’s conservative publication. They have excellent, well-researched and well-written editorials.
By Harry Elliot:
States, Stockholm Syndrome, and Pseudo-Patriotism
A government has the power, in most cases, to enslave us at a moment’s notice for a war we may not support, and to silence anybody who speaks ill of its...
Because we didn’t have enough to worry about with Ebola, right? Prayers for this young woman and her family.
Itica Milanes of ABC News in San Diego reported.
San Diego State student suffering from probable meningitis passes away
An 18-year-old San Diego State University freshman student who was critically ill with meningococcal meningitis, a...
The student who caused the scare said she did it to avoid being dropped from a class. That’s right kids, “I’ve got Ebola” is officially the new “My dog ate my homework.”
R. Stickney and Andie Adams of NBC San Diego Report:
Southwestern College Student Recants Story After Evacuation
A Southern California community college...
Somehow, I don’t think ISIS cares about political correctness.
Julian Robinson of the Daily Mail reported.
National Union of Students refuses to condemn ISIS due to fears it would be ‘Islamophobic’
The National Union of Students has come under fire after it refused to condemn ISIS – because of fears it was ‘Islamophobic’.
Students put...
He came to Cornell last year to deliver a speech, and the reception afterwards was held at a fraternity house. More candidates should do this.
Scott Brown Frats It Up. It Goes Exactly As You’d Expect.
New Hampshire GOP candidate Scott Brown ditched the usual campaign trail s...
Here’s a feel good story for a Saturday.
Samantha Watkins of the College Fix reported.
Full-ride scholarship for sex trafficking victims in the works at Christian college
‘The last thing we would want is to set someone up for failure’ by not providing crucial resources
Victims of sex trafficking will have a chance to get a...
Our friend Hans Bader, a former official in the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights who handled Title IX violations, writes at Liberty Unyielding about the potential legal consequences of California’s new “Yes Means Yes” Law:
State-mandated dirty talk in California: Governor signs unconstitutional SB 967
Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown...
The real issue here is not that colleges aren’t teaching core requirements like U.S. history or Economics 101. It’s that high schools aren’t teaching these low-level courses. Why should colleges be teaching students what they should have learned in high school, or even middle school?
Douglas Belkin reports for the Wall...
It seems the basic laws of economics are lost on some college administrators.
Richard Vedder of See Thru Edu reports.
Gamble: Despite Declining Enrollments, Colleges Resume Spending Spree
Most aging academics worry about global warming (or its recent nonexistence), income inequality, or perhaps even erectile dysfunction, but I fret about the Higher Education Price...
But wait, I thought “Yes means yes” empowered women?
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
Law professor blasts ‘yes means yes’: ‘Ridiculous, unfair, infantilizes women’
A prominent law professor is speaking out against California’s new “yes means yes” law, calling it “confusingly complex,” “contrary to both common sense...
