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10 Things Students Should Know About Their Religious Liberties

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Posted by    Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 6:30pm

Here’s a nifty list of 10 facts every student should know about their guaranteed religious liberties.

This one comes to us from the Liberty Institute:

10 Facts Every Student Must Know about Religious Rights in School

Before students order their books and fill their backpacks, they need to think about preparing their most...

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Could Improvements to Education Have a Positive Effect on the Economy?

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Posted by    Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 5:00pm

This idea is the central tenet of a recent column in the Wall Street Journal by Robert Litan.

How Improving Education Could Pay Off in Economic Growth

In a recent Think Tank piece, I focused on two ways to boost long-term economic growth: more risk-taking by larger companies, and more start-ups. Neither is...

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Harvard Prof Larry Lessig Considering Democratic Presidential Run

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Posted by    Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 3:30pm

This is so perfectly Democratic.

Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller writes:

Harvard Professor Larry Lessig To Explore Democratic Presidential Run

It’s not Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, but another liberal Harvard professor is going to challenge Hillary Clinton for president.

Larry Lessig, a progressive known for railing against big money in politics, plans to announce...

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Prager University – Was the Civil War About Slavery?

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Posted by    Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 2:00pm

In a word? Yes. In this new video from Prager University, West Point professor Colonel Ty Seidule explains why.

Watch below.

Here’s more information:

Course Description

What caused the Civil War? Did the North care about abolishing slavery? Did the South secede because of slavery? Or was it about something else entirely…perhaps states’ rights? Colonel...

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University of California Students Want to Kick Cops Out of Union Over Claims of Racism

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Posted by    Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 12:30pm

Why kick the cops out? Here is their point of view. “Policing in the U.S. has always served the needs of colonialism, racism, and capitalism.”

Personal Liberty reports.

Students say kick cops out of union because … racism

It’s always fun to watch liberal utopia melt down in real time. Here’s a good one:...

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Lawmaker Calls for Firing of Central Connecticut State Prof with Criminal History

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Posted by    Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 11:00am

The professor in question is a repeat offender.

Colleen Flaherty reports at Inside Higher Ed.

Extracurricular Criminal

A professor finds himself in trouble with the law several times within the span of a few years. But none of those crimes and alleged crimes relate directly to his teaching or publications, and he’s apparently a...

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Liberal Pakistani Student: Berkeley is So PC That They Stifle Open Discussion

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Posted by    Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 9:30am

Being too scared of offending others has stopped freedom of speech.

The College Fix reports.

Pakistani student: UC-Berkeley is so ‘politically correct that they end up stifling open discussion’

University of California-Berkeley student Shanzeh Khurram has been writing a weekly column in The Daily Californian this summer about growing up in Pakistan as a...

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U. Oregon Paid Rape Accuser $800K and Full Tuition

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Posted by    Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 8:00am

That’s a pretty handsome settlement for a case that ended with no criminal charges.

Christian Britschgi of the College Fix reports.

U. of Oregon paid rape accuser $800,000 and full tuition so it could move on, president says

Time to stop debating this incident and hire loads of bureaucrats

The University of Oregon is paying...

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U. of California System Dumps Big Money into Salary Increases

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Posted by    Monday, August 10, 2015 at 6:30pm

Getting a raise is great and all, but is it sustainable?

Reason reports:

University of California System Spending Big Money on Salary Boosts

A number of years ago, I wrote about a California pest-control agency that had lobbied taxpayers to raise their property taxes to help fight a scary stinging insect called the red-imported...

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More Trouble Ahead for Defunct Trump University

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Posted by    Monday, August 10, 2015 at 5:00pm

Do you remember Trump University? You’re likely to hear more about it in the near future.

Valerie Strauss reports at the Washington Post.

Trump University: Why the N.Y. attorney general called it a scam

You probably won’t be surprised to learn, if you didn’t already know, that Donald Trump started a university, or at...

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Judge in U. of Tennessee-Chattanooga Sexual Assault Case: Can’t Shift Burden of Proof to the Accused

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Posted by    Monday, August 10, 2015 at 3:30pm

A win for due process in Tennessee.

Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner writes:

Judge rules university can’t shift burden of proof onto the accused

A Tennessee judge has ruled that a university cannot shift the burden of proof onto an accused student and force them to prove a crime didn’t occur.

Judge Carol McCoy...

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University Study Finds Hollywood Blockbusters Are Too White and Male

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Posted by    Monday, August 10, 2015 at 2:00pm

How can this be true when Hollywood is so full of liberals?

Dave Huber reports at the College Fix.

USC study: Hollywood blockbusters are too overwhelmingly white and male

The University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism has found that, yet again, Hollywood appears to not care much about diversifying the...

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Hillary Proposes a Debt-Free College Tuition Plan

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Posted by    Monday, August 10, 2015 at 12:30pm

And it’s only going to cost an estimated $350 billion over ten years.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Hillary Clinton Proposes Debt-Free Tuition at Public Colleges

WASHINGTON— Hillary Clinton is proposing an expansive program aimed at enabling students to attend public colleges and universities without taking on lo...

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University’s ‘Diversity Officer’ Makes More Than Members of Congress

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Posted by    Monday, August 10, 2015 at 11:00am

We might be placing too much value on administrator roles like this one.

Katherine Timpf reports at National Review.

Public University Paying ‘Diversity Officer’ More than Congressmen Make

As the state of Illinois is struggling with budget problems, Northern Illinois University, a public school, just hired a “chief diversity officer” that will make more...

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National Union of Students’ VP Blames University Teaching for Poor Student Struggles

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Posted by    Monday, August 10, 2015 at 9:30am

Sorana Vieru says exams and essays ‘privilege’ more advantaged students, calls for changes to ‘Middle Ages’ format.

Times Higher Education reports.

NUS vice-president blames university teaching for struggles of poorer students

A student leader has challenged universities to redraw “unrepresentative” curricula and assessment methods, blaming them for the underperformance of students from less...

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University of Virginia Prof Calls Jon Stewart the Patron Saint of Liberal Smugness

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Posted by    Monday, August 10, 2015 at 8:00am

It’s amazing that this column by Professor Gerard Alexander was published by the New York Times.

Jon Stewart, Patron Saint of Liberal Smugness

It shows how gifted Jon Stewart is that his best moment happened on someone else’s show. He appeared in 2004 on “Crossfire,” a CNN yelling program, and asked the hosts...

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Free Speech Is A ‘Nuisance’ On College Campuses

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Posted by    Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 5:00pm

Is the war for free speech on campuses a lost cause?

Breitbart reports.

Flanagan: Free Speech Is A ‘Nuisance’ On College Campuses

Writer and author Caitlin Flanagan argued that free speech has become a “nuisance” on college campuses on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.”

Flanagan said that college students today are “the inheritors of...

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World War II Veteran Graduates College

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Posted by    Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 3:30pm

He just found out that he had all the required credits.

WLTX reports.

World War II Veteran Graduates College

Columbia, SC (WLTX) More than 1,500 people received their degrees from University of South Carolina Saturday in the summer graduation ceremony. One of them was 89 year-old, World War II Veteran, Dan Brown.

Despite being legally...

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Researcher Accused of Having Agenda for Questioning Campus Fossil Fuel Divestment

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Posted by    Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 2:00pm

This sounds like a classic case of projection to me. Divestment activists are the ones with an agenda.

Breana Noble reports at the College Fix.

Professors spurn researcher critical of campus fossil fuel divestment crusades

Free speech undermined by fossil fuel divestment, scholar finds

When National Association of Scholars research associate Rachelle Peterson recently attempted...

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Comedians Censoring Themselves For College Crowds

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Posted by    Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 12:30pm

How sad. Today’s college crowd is so PC that comedians are tip-toeing around them.

Caitlin Flanagan writes at the Atlantic.

That’s Not Funny!

Three comics sat around a café table in the chilly atrium of the Minneapolis Convention Center, talking about how to create the cleanest possible set. “Don’t do what’s in your gut,”...

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College Students Are Largely Misinformed About Ebola

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Posted by    Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 11:00am

Knowledge on Ebola is a test that students are failing.

Fox News reports.

College students still largely misinformed about Ebola

Months after the Ebola virus outbreak of 2014 had briefly the U.S., American college students still understood little about the disease and how it spreads, a 2015 survey suggests.

“I w...

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Students at Liberty University Required to Attend Bernie Sanders Speech

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Posted by    Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 9:30am

This seems a little strange but the speech is technically going to be a convocation which all Liberty students must attend.

Sarah Kaplan reports at the Washington Post.

Why Liberty University is requiring its students to attend a Bernie Sanders speech

It’s obvious why Sanders would want to speak at Liberty: He’s running for...

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