Christian crosses are now misogynistic, apparently. Where do progressives get this stuff?
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reported.
Students protest ‘misogynistic’ pro-life display
Pro-abortion students at Auburn University held a counter-protest on Wednesday against a pro-life display of crosses on the grounds that it was “misogynistic” and “sham[ed] women’s reproductive choices.”
Auburn University’s Students for...
It wasn’t Columbus that made Berkeley start celebrating “Indigenous People’s Day” on Columbus Day, but a controversial Native-American themed play, which some students believed depicted Native Americans at the time of manifest destiny as “asking for it.”
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Controversial Native American play, not Columbus, sparks...
To people who think like this, it doesn’t seem to matter that the U.S. elected Barack Obama president. Twice.
Trey Sanchez of Truth Revolt reported.
CA Prof: Killing Black People Is Killing Barack Obama
Famed music critic and Berkeley professor Greil Marcus likened killing black people to essentially killing Barack Obama.
No really, he did....
Is this just some liberal progressive fantasy where school children are encouraged to explore the arts rather than math and science, or is there some credible thought and science behind this proposal?
Joanne Lipman writes for the Wall Street Journal:
A Musical Fix for American Schools
American education is in perpetual crisis. Our students...
In a new video from Prager University, a member of the South African parliament named Kenneth Meshoe explains why Israel is nothing like an apartheid state.
Here’s more information.
Course Description
Is Israel an “apartheid state,” as its enemies claim? Who better to answer that charge than a Black South African who lived through...
I don’t think college students and professors have a “moral obligation” to disseminate knowledge via editing Wikipedia as Professor Jemielniak suggests, but the rest of his argument makes sense. Wikipedia is a powerful tool that can only be made better if more and more people use it and edit it.
Dariusz...
Just two weeks ago we reported that a preacher was pepper sprayed at Montana State, now this.
Keegan Williams and Kate Winkle of the Collegian reported.
UPDATE: Preacher injured on campus, CSUPD investigating
UPDATE: 4:21 p.m.
A Colorado State University spokeswoman responded to Thursday’s incident in an email to the Collegian, “I can confirm at...
Folks, never plagiarize.
Army War College Revokes Sen. John Walsh’s Degree
The U.S. Army War College revoked Democratic Sen. John Walsh’s master’s degree after an investigation completed Friday concluded that he plagiarized a research paper required to graduate.
The college assigned an academic review board to the probe in August after The New York...
The $60,000 question is: What is anyone going to do about this?
Naomi Schaefer Riley of the New York Post reported.
Liberal bias in academia is destroying the integrity of research
How reliable is academic research? Not very it seems, after noting that the Journal of Vibration and Control, a reputable academic publication, had...
A journalist at MSU’s State News somehow interpreted that the football stadium’s booing of Obamas appearance in an “It’s On Us” campaign video as approval of campus rape, and not just the dislike of an unpopular president.
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Michigan State football fans chastised for booing...
If liberals can classify conservatism as hate speech, they can ban it on campus. This report from Hans Bader at the Examiner is cause for concern.
Most Democrats back hate speech ban in poll; conservatism equated with hate
51% of Democrats back a ban on “hate speech,” while only 21% oppose such a...
“We engage in education, not discrimination.”
Those are the words of the attorney representing California’s public university stem, which has officially “derecognized” 23 Christian student clubs on 19 of its campuses. These clubs belonged to the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and required of members to believe in Jesus and abstain from sex...
Do you ever get the sense that some of today’s college students are focused on all the wrong things? Robert Stacy McCain points to a recent report by Campus Reform.
Bad Ideas and Bad Prose at Cornell
Cornell University may be the only Ivy League school with a “diversity” quota for the mentally...
The fact that one student used a racial slur is a sign of a racial crisis, and even if such an event is a hoax, that’s also… a sign of a racial crisis?
Dave Huber at the College Fix has the story:
The never-ending ‘need’ for college ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ efforts
Syracuse University higher-ups...
It’s surprising that this story isn’t getting more press coverage. This report comes from Randal C. Archibold of the New York Times.
In Case of Missing Students, Hillside Mass Graves Point to a Death March
IGUALA, Mexico — The journey up — far, far up — to the m...
An excellent question, which is answered by Steven Pinker in a new post at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Why Academics Stink at Writing
Together with wearing earth tones, driving Priuses, and having a foreign policy, the most conspicuous trait of the American professoriate may be the prose style called academese. An editorial...
College life in the era of hope and change.
Melanie Grayce West of the Wall Street Journal reported.
Food Pantries Grow on New York Campuses
Tucked on the fringes of Kingsborough Community College’s campus in Brooklyn’s Manhattan Beach, walled off from the corner of a computer lab, sits a small room about 10...
Apparently, the reason most white people “gun up” is to confront racial anxieties.
Here’s more from the College Fix:
Prof: Black gun rights advocates would be treated differently than whites
Professor Charles Gallagher of La Salle University believes the public would be a lot more suspicious of a group of armed blacks walking through,...
This idea is on the table because the school has to cut something. If it isn’t a campus, it’s faculty.
Noel K. Gallagher of the Portland Press Herald reported.
USM Faculty Senate proposes closing a campus
Facing a plan by administrators to cut 50 University of Sou...
I never understood this erotic/sexual assault type of hazing. What’s the joy in joining a group if the only way to get in is to submit oneself to humiliating and depraving acts?
Sean Carlin reports for the Associated Press:
7 charged in high school football hazing case
Seven students were charged with sex crimes...
This sounds like a logical and well thought out plan.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reported.
March naked to protest ‘rape culture,’ Ohio University students encouraged
Telling women they should feel free to wear revealing clothing in dangerous places is out. Public nudity to protest “rape culture” is in.
Ohio University’s F*ckRapeCulture group was scheduled...
I wonder what they thought they were going to achieve by trashing the newspapers.
Greg Piper of The CollegeFix has the story:
LATEST REASON TO THROW AWAY STUDENT NEWSPAPERS: GREEK LIFE EMBARRASSMENT
Apparently unfamiliar with Justice Louis Brandeis’s famous quote that the best response to speech you hate is “more speech, not enforced silence,”...
