The College Conservative’s Chelsea Gruenwald takes a look at the news surrounding the Ferguson riots, and identifies the real victims of this disturbance.
Violent protests erupted throughout the St Louis area Monday night, following the news that a grand jury did not indict the police officer involved in a well-known case from...
It’s amazing to me that college students would need to have the basics of free speech explained to them.
Sarah McLaughlin of The FIRE reported.
Oberlin President Discusses Dissent and Censorship Trends on Campus
While the rape and sexual assault charges against famed comedian Bill Cosby are troubling, it is also true that he has not been convicted.
Despite this fact, there is a petition being launched to rescind his honorary degree from Yale University.
However, given the current campus approach of guilty-until-proven-innocent, such an action should...
This story is a window into the minds of progressives.
Joel B. Pollak of Breitbart reported.
Video: White Ferguson Protester Lectures Black Cop on Racism
On Tuesday evening, in the midst of the Ferguson protest outside the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), a group of protestors confronted a black police officer and challenged him....
To be fair, it does make sense, and it’s their right to do so as an employer.
Amanda LaBrot of KOMU 8 reports:
MU Health Care won’t hire smokers starting in 2015
MU Health Care announced it won’t hire smokers starting on Jan.1, 2015.
The new nicotine-free hiring policy exempts current employees, but all new...
Brought to you by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Awesome.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reported.
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Harassed by boycott, divestment and sanctions activists? Frat house vandalized with swastikas? Look no further than a new app called
It’s about time: most of today’s media is heavily biased one way or the other, and it’ll be nice to see some unbiased news sources popping up.
Don Irvine at Accuracy in Academia has the story:
Texas A&M to Teach Aspiring Journalists How to “Put Bias Aside”
Ten ye...
It is said that great art comes from the world you know best.
Given the staggering level of student debt nowadays, the new exhibit at Michigan State University should be a hit.
The Eli and Edythe Broad (BROHD) Art Museum at Michigan State University is teaming up with...
Ashley Thorne of the National Association of Scholars reports on a new trend in education.
“Teaching” Ferguson
A new hashtag is trending on Twitter for the second time this fall—the first was in August shortly after police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This time the h...
A senior football player at Ohio State University has been reported missing by his family.
The family of senior walk-on Ohio State University football player Kosta Karageorge has reported him missing after he left his apartment early Wednesday and has not been heard from.
His sister Sophia Karageorge said yesterday that Karageorge, a...
I wonder if her talk included anything about income inequality.
Rosalind S. Helderman and Philip Rucker of the Washington Post reported.
Plans for UCLA visit give rare glimpse into Hillary Clinton’s paid speaking career
When officials at the University of California at Los Angeles began negotiating a $300,000 speech appearance by Hillary Rodham Clinton,...
I predict that Eckerd College’s President will be targeted by campus feminist activists in short order.
…Eckerd College President Donald Eastman sent an “open letter” to all students and faculty urging students to cut back on alcohol and casual sex in order to prevent sexual assault. He says that by doing so,...
A recent piece by Heather Mac Donald at City Journal points out the pitfalls of Microaggression.
The Microaggression Farce
In November 2013, two dozen graduate students at the University of California at Los Angeles marched into an education class and announced a protest against its “hostile and unsafe climate for Scholars of Color.”...
Or, in other words, “You’re racist, even if you don’t actually do racist things.”
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Duke sociologist: ‘Racism without racists’ today in America
Duke University sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva says today’s racism is fomented without the use of actual racists. Or something like that.
He’s also written a...
Given that a black employee of University of California- Los Angeles claims he Was racially profiled by campus police, it must be noted that the campus “die-in” to protest the Ferguson grand jury decision seems to have gone off without any police intervention.
Daily Bruin student reporter Jeong Park files this report:
Several...
Rejoice, science fiction fans.
Kristen Eskow of USA Today has the story.
Syracuse University professor starts ‘Doctor Who’ course
A class on the BBC television series Doctor Who is coming to Syracuse University this spring semester, and will also be open online (for free!) to any members of the public interested in the course.
The...
A UC Berkeley student who was arrested during a local protest shows that protesting in the age of social media has certain advantages.
The Daily Cal reported.
Jeff Noven, a 21-year-old UC Berkeley student detained at a protest last week, will no longer face charges.
Noven was arrested at the UC Board of Regents...
He’s suing the college for gender discrimination. This is the world we live in now.
First Post reports.
Japanese man sues women’s university for denying him admission
Tokyo: A young Japanese man is suing an all-women public university for gender discrimination after being denied admission, according to a media reports.
The man, aspir...
A fascinating piece in The Wall Street Journal reviews information on 32 teachers and administrators who settled cases of alleged cheating misconduct with New York State in the past two years.
These cases were reviewed by the state’s new Test Security Unit.
Richard M. Brzeski had his teaching license suspended for two years...
As allegations mount against the comedian, UMass has decided to sever ties with him despite the fact that he’s a high profile alum.
Matt Rocheleau and Eric Bosco of the Boston Globe reported.
UMass Amherst cuts ties with Bill Cosby
The University of Massachusetts Amherst severed its ties Wednesd...
That sounds like solid evidence that would totally hold up in a court of law to me!
Dave Huber at The college Fix has the story:
Ohio University students: Ban frat based on anonymous social media
Hmm. The university where a senior journalism major wants to ban anonymous social media like Yik Yak now...
The president of Lincoln University has been forced out for daring to question the motives of students who make rape allegations.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
Rape Comments Send University President Packing
The president of the country’s oldest degree-granting historically black college tumbled from power this week, brought low after remarks went...
