Why am I not at all surprised to learn that Gawker published photos from the party?
Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.
Sorority at Texas Tech Under Investigation For ‘Border Patrol’ Party Pics
The Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at Texas Tech is in hot water as photos from a “Border Patrol” party were...
The gross number of students taking and passing AP exams has increased over the past ten years, but overall pass rates are low.
Not to mention that over the past ten years AP exams have become much easier to pass because of all the review books and free online tutorials available.
From U.S....
Gee. Who could have predicted that a bunch of young people would rebel against authority? It boggles the mind.
Eva Palmer of the GW Hatchet reports.
Reported alcohol and drug violations rise after campus crackdown
A campus-wide crackdown on public intoxication partly caused a surge in reported violations last year.
Campus police officers began actively...
Apple removed the app, which faced numerous critical reviews, from the iTunes store, citing an app guideline which forbade “objectionable or crude content.”
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Good2Go Totally Shuts Down Consent App After Apple Yanks It From iTunes
Just two weeks after its debut, the sexual-consent app Good2Go has...
Here’s a video about how cool California’s new Affirmative-Consent law is from an “anti-sexism” group called UltraViolet. They apparently didn’t know they’re breaking the law in their own tutorial.
Greg Piper of the College Fix has the details.
Affirmative-Consent Video Tutorial Tells Students To Act Without Consent
If you’re confused how to get and...
Evil capitalists: 1, Liberal College Students and Faculty: 0
All over campus, students, faculty, and administration are celebrating “Cornell Engaged,” the project David Einhorn donated $50 million to help fund. Just yesterday I thought I heard them all cursing the capitalists pigs of Wall Street who simply push money back...
Nothing really. But as Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner points out, our liberal friends at VOX think it’s a really big deal.
What discussion about college majors would be complete without mentioning gender gap?
You’ve got to hand it to the writers at Vox — they know how to stay on message.
In...
If that isn’t irony, then I don’t know what is.
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
College Denies Report It Forced Students to Take Part in Civil Rights March
School officials at Hood College are denying a report...
The political double standard for speakers on campus is reaching a tipping point. Many more people than you think are fully aware that a convicted cop killer is speaking at Goddard College while a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has now been...
The various gender identity combinations now accepted and listed below is surprisingly long.
Genevieve McCarthy of the College Fix reports.
All-Female Colleges Adopt New Policies To Enroll Male ‘Transgender’ Students
Two all-female colleges recently agreed to officially admit male transgendered students – or biological males who dress and act like women – making...
It can be done but it requires work, planning and sacrifice. A student named Jessica Slizewski did it and wrote about her experience. Her article was published at Time.
I Don’t Have Student Loans and I Don’t Feel Bad for People Who Do
My father is not...
I’m not sure if this is a step up or a step down from University of New Mexico’s sex week.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Brown University Hosts Nudity Week, Complete With Naked Yoga, Bodypainting
Ah, Brown University’s annual Nudity Week, which boasts naked yoga sessions, nude body painting events,...
This is an update to a previous report. A teenager in France is blaming a sibling for threatening emails sent to Harvard students.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
Emailer Who Sent Death Threats to Hundreds of Harvard Students Is Totally Sorry, Blames Brother
On Friday, a bunch of students at Harvard University...
Logan had been busted for selling LSD and club-drug favorite Molly, but the campus police offered him a way to keep the school’s administration and his parents out of the know: becoming an informant.
During a surprise visit to see their son, Logan’s father and stepmother found him dead in his dorm...
Higher ed bubble? What higher ed bubble?
The College Fix reports.
Retired New York Professor’s Annual Pension Tops $561K Per Year
How is that even possible? I know – it boggles the mind.
But the New York Post reports that 90-year-old retired Queens College history professor Edgar McManus gets a city pension of $561,286 a...
I think we’ve reached a pretty comfortable situation when the most important thing students can think of to protest is a couple kids hanging a Confederate flag in their dorm room.
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Confederate Flag at Bryn Mawr College Dorm Causes Uproar
Two members of the Bryn...
This has people talking for some reason. You can watch both videos below via Inside Higher Ed.
The Sorority video:
The parody:
Claire Chiara at the College Fix shows how the Berkeley Free Speech Movement is totally rooted in hypocrisy:
Berkeley College Republicans Call Bullsh*t on Free Speech Celebrations
November 2013: Berkeley student government unanimously passes a bill to ban the term “illegal alien” from campus discourse.
September 2013: After several Mexican-American members of the campus...
Some people just see racism everywhere.
Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.
University of Texas Prof Rips ‘White Sports Media Complex’
Speaking in the nigh comprehensible language of deconstuctivism, Professor Ben Carrington gave a speech last year stating that the “’white sports media complex’ works to further ‘white privilege’ even as it claims...
This app was created in earnest, not as a joke, to help couples establish consent before engaging in sexual activity. However, the app developers seem completely unaware of the legal Pandora’s Box that’s been placed in their laps.
Greg Piper of The College Fix has the story:
ROLLOUT OF GOOD2GO SEXUAL-CONSENT APP GREETED...
Jane S. Shaw of National Review offers a little behind the scenes info in a recent post.
College Admissions Facts
The Wall Street Journal has a personal finance section that it sells to about 70 newspapers around the country. I don’t know how accessible it is (you may have to be a subscriber),...
The New York Times has been creating several of these types of maps lately. They’ve made ones for professional football, basketball, and baseball, and now one for the second most popular sport in the U.S.–college football. The data they use is based on Facebook ‘likes.’
N.C.A.A. Fan Map: How the Country Roots...
