Dave Brat is the candidate who beat Eric Cantor in a stunning upset during the summer. He won on Tuesday, too.
Alix Bryan of CBS 6 News reports.
And the Virginia 7th Congressional District election race goes to…
Virginia’s 7th Congressional District has a new leader, a victory for Dr. David Brat (R –...
I have great personal interest in Uber. It’s a disruptive innovation that should be championed, not demonized. Unfortunately, Quinnipiac University’s administrators would rather bow down to paranoia and fear of change than let free markets reign.
University bans Uber from campus
Quinnipiac University (QU) has banned Uber over concerns about the ridesharing business’s...
I think we should all be doing a little celebrating right now.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reported.
College Republicans celebrate good times
Victory parties. Celebratory statements on social media. High fives.
Conservative and college Republican students on Tuesday basked in the glow of the 2014 midterm election results.
“Christmas came early this year,” Berkeley...
Despite the fact that “there was never any evidence — nor any effort made to discover evidence”, Yale’s rape tribunal nearly ruined former quarterback, now Harvard law student Patrick Witt’s life.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Former Yale QB indicts campus rape tribunal for trashing his reputation
It’s not just...
College Insurrection would like to offer hearty congratulations to Republican Saira Blair for her outstanding achievement.
Kris Maher of the Wall Street Journal wrote about Ms. Blair yesterday.
West Virginia Elects America’s Youngest State Lawmaker
A West Virginia University freshman who did most of her campaigning out of her dorm room became the youngest...
I guess they’re just going to shrug and say, “Our bad.”
From HuffPo:
Stanford, Dartmouth Apologize For ‘Deceitful’ Montana Election Experiment
The presidents of Stanford University and Dartmouth College are sending 100,000 letters to Montana residents disavowing election mailers that state officials called deceitful and worried will influence the state’s two Supreme Court elections.
The...
Oops! False alarm, everyone. Go about your business.
NBC News 9 in Colorado reported.
Regis University accidentally sends bomb threat alert
DENVER – Regis University accidentally sent a “bomb threat” alert to people across the metro area even prompting Rangeview High School in Aurora to go on emergency lockdown.
“Regis does regret that the message...
Student Senate Vice President Miles Sisk has reportedly contacted the cyber police, saying that consequences will never be the same.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
News flash to student senators: Being mocked on Tumblr is not ‘cyber-bullying’
So here’s my conflict of interest: I’m a native Oregonian and my dad...
Don’t enough people already think college is a scam? Higher education doesn’t need news like this.
Via ABC News.
Woman Gets 16 Years for Running Fake University
A San Francisco Bay Area woman was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for running what prosecutors s...
At first I thought this article I linked was particularly poorly written because it is not until the end of it where the writer explains what the students were protesting about.
Then I realized I was too harsh on the writer. The students don’t have anything to be protesting about. They’re just...
The Koch Brothers give millions of dollars to colleges and student groups.
If students who have been brainwashed by Democrats don’t want their money, the Kochs should comply and cut them all off without another cent.
Kaitlin Mulhere of Inside Higher Ed reports.
‘UnKoch My Campus’
Students on nearly 30 campuses around the country called...
Joseph Asch at the Dartblog writes of the recent Dartmouth faculty vote to abolish Greek life, and questions why the school’s president — previously seen as a proponent of the Greek system — did not offer one word of counterargument:
And Where Was Phil?
Perhaps the most striking aspect of the faculty meeting,...
No one seems to have a sense of humor anymore.
The Stupid Girl blog reported.
I guess it’s an oxymoron: Female academics outraged at “sexy Ph.D.” Halloween costume
How to get a doctorate in no sense of humor:
The “Delicious Women’s Phd [sic] Darling Sexy Costume,” sold by Amazon, received a lot of virtual eye...
The worth of a college degree is derived from the person standing behind it and his/her achievements and potential, not the piece of paper itself.
From CNN:
My college degree is worthless
Rosalyn Harris, an unemployed single mother who had never gone to college, thought getting a degree would be the ticket to a...
Remember when going to college meant learning to think for yourself?
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
Taxpayer-Funded Florida College Gave Students SCRIPTED ANSWERS For Scott-Crist Debate
Students who attended the Oct. 15 debate between Florida gubernatorial candidates Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democrat Charlie Crist on the campus of Broward College were...
When did modern culture become so out and out obsessed with sex? You can’t even go to Harvard, supposedly the pinnacle of human knowledge and understanding, without having sex paraded around in front of you like a strip club.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Harvard University workshop to teach...
Whatever happened to the accused being presumed innocent until proven guilty?
Matt Lamb of the College Fix reports.
University trains faculty to ‘assume’ sexual-assault accusers tell the truth
ANALYSIS
In an effort to help faculty and staff provide useful information to students who report sexual assaults to them, Ohio University is encouraging them to side...
This crazy story out of Mexico reads like the plot to a spaghetti western.
Gang-affiliated police raid a Mexican town, and while the mayor manages to escape 43 college students go missing–for a month now. There is suspicion that the mayor ordered the kidnapping of the students because he didn’t want them...
This new video from Prager University uses an article by economist, Kip Hagopian to explain the progressive income tax through a story about three brothers.
Here’s more information.
Course Description
“The Progressive Income Tax” is one of those economic terms that gets bandied about, but few actually know what it means or how it...
How hard is it to just apologize?
Daniel Mael at Truth Revolt has the story:
Kent St. Professor: ‘There is But One Path to Liberation—Daily Blows Against the Empire’
A Kent State University professor has resigned from the editorial board of an academic journal following Watchdog’s publication of a letter in which he accused...
Gee, I wonder why? Could it be because Republicans are expected to win?
I don’t remember anyone making this argument back in 2006.
The professor is David Schanzer and he wrote this column with a student named Jay Sullivan.
It was published by the New York Times.
Cancel the Midterms
By Tuesday night about 90 million...
The problem with this idea is that the diversity that liberal academics love to go on about — racial and cultural diversity — is at best a poor substitute for the type of diversity that actually matters in a liberal arts education: diversity of thought.
Charles C.W. Jang at the Dartmouth Review...
