Rape victim Amanda Collins spoke on behalf of a campus carry bill making its way through Nevada’s state house.
Sean Whaley reports at the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada rape victim tells her story at gun campus-carry hearing
CARSON CITY — A woman who was raped on the University of Nevada, Reno campus in 2007...
It’s a good thing none of these kids were alive during the punk era.
Yvonne Dean-Bailey of Campus Reform reported.
Oberlin students cancel ‘Viet Cong’ performance, call band name ‘deeply offensive’
Oberlin College has decided to cancel a scheduled concert by the Canadian band Viet Cong in solidarity with Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American students.
The show,...
USA Today seems to think so. And we all know that criminals obey zoning restrictions…
AWR Hawkins writes at Ammoland:
USA Today Wants Defenseless ‘Zero-Tolerance’, Not Campus Carry
Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- USA Today joined ranks with other anti-gun voices, saying women shouldn’t be allowed to carry guns on campus for self-defense.
USA Today specifically...
What’s the problem? College students all over the country have to deal with ridiculous rules of conduct.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Writing Bad Code?
Is a professor sending out a late recommendation letter for a student as bad as one who commits academic misconduct or, say, sexually harasses a colleague? And...
A highway was shutdown at Santa Cruz known as a picturesque beach town next to the Pacific Ocean. The reason? A protest by UC Santa Cruz students.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports.
UC Santa Cruz students shut down Highway 1 in protest over tuition
SANTA CRUZ >> Six UC Santa Cruz students brought traffic...
Maya Rao of the Star Tribune points out that in especially cold winters, college students who drink face a real danger of getting caught outside and freezing to death.
Minnesota college tragedies: Drunk, frozen and underage
Pink flowers adorn a tree by the wooded trail where a drunk college student wandered in her...
Guillaume Dumas attended college at some of the best universities in the world but he was not like the other students attending the classes. He attended without being enrolled or receiving a degree.
Fast Company reports.
Ivy League For Free: What One Man Learned By Crashing Elite Colleges for 4 Years
Between 2008 and...
When National Public Radio is addressing the problem, it’s pretty clear that it’s real.
Debate: Do Liberals Stifle Intellectual Diversity On The College Campus?
There is agreement on both the political left and right that a majority of college professors in the United States are liberal or left-of-center. But do liberals stifle free...
Well knock me down with a feather… But seriously, who didn’t see that one coming.
Who else made the list?
The Truth Revolt writes:
The 10 Worst Anti-Semitic Campuses
I. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Columbia University is home to some of the most well-known anti-Semitic professors in the nation such as Rashid Khalidi and Joseph Massad, who has...
The higher ed bubble has finally burst for this all women college in Virginia.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reported.
This $47,095-Per-Year College Will Shut Its Doors FOREVER This Spring
Sweet Briar College, an all-female bastion of the liberal arts since its founding in 1901, announced on Tuesday that it will permanently cease...
Will Florida pass campus carry?
Matthew Bruner writes at FSU News:
Concealed carry bill pending in higher education committee
Gun control is an issue that never seems to leave the spotlight, both on a national and local platform. All 50 states allow citizens to carry concealed weapons, if they meet certain state requirements. Currently,...
It’s good to give students incentives, but paying them?
FOX 13 reported.
University to pay students who graduate on time
Howard University is going to pay its students to graduate in four years.
The school says it will cover 50% of the cost of a student’s final semester if they graduate early or on time,...
It’s good to be the best at something. Congratulations, Kansas.
The Wichita Eagle reports.
Kansas tops national list in community college transfers completing degree at four-year school
KANSAS CITY, MO. When Julia Glenn was ready to transfer from community college to a four-year school for her bachelor’s degree, Kansas made it easy.
Under a state program,...
Have you ever volunteered for a scientific study? Be sure to read the fine print.
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel of Science Insider reports.
Human subjects protections under fire at the University of Minnesota
A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately reviewed research studies...
A commemorative lecture on MLK by Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC at Cornell University, ended up being far from a commemoration to King and his legacy.
The Cornell Review reports.
MSNBC’s Melissa...
I can’t say there are many surprises on this list. The FIRE blog reports.
FIRE Announces 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech in 2014
More than half of America’s top colleges maintain speech codes that blatantly violate First Amendment standards. But every year the Found...
Political correctness brigade hardest hit.
Alexandra Samuels writes at USA Today:
U. of Texas fraternity goes unpunished for ‘border patrol’ party
The University of Texas at Austin’s Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity — commonly referred to as Fiji – attracted attention from UT students and others after hosting a “border patrol” themed party Feb. 7....
Yeah, who cares about things like laws and due process? This is long but read it all.
David Hookstead of the College Fix reports.
Students accused of rape have too many rights, say some at campus rape panel
A “Confronting Campus Rape” discussion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday night delved into the...
Stanford is known for having some of the top academics and athletics in the world. Could the university at “the farm” be spending too much time and money on athletics?
The Stanford Daily reports.
The price of athletics at Stanford
“It will cost Stanford Athletics almost $100 million to put Cardinal teams in competition...
This is from about ten days ago but I just stumbled on it last night. It’s over 30 minutes long but I was drawn in and watched the whole thing.
Sean discusses politics, terrorism, foreign affairs, Israel, the economy and many aspects of his own life.
Watch it all below.
A Columbia professor we reported on recently has had her domestic violence case tossed.
The New York Daily News reports.
Columbia University professor who trains cops in c...
I don’t understand why some colleges are raising their prices when everyone is already saying higher education is too expensive.
Max Denning of The Ithacan reports.
Ithaca College announces tuition increase for 2015–16
The Ithaca College Board of Trustees has approved a tuition increase...
