This is an update to a story we featured yesterday.
Reginald Harper writes at Medium.
Manchester’s Student Union Bans Speakers from Society Event after Hosting One Who Advocated Execution of Gays
After the University of Manchester Students’ Union banned both Milo Yiannopoulos and Julie Bindel from a society event, you may be wondering, what...
This is what Aggies called “good bull.”
From SEC Country:
LSU band to learn South Carolina alma mater and fight song for Saturday’s game
LSU may be playing a “road” game at Tiger Stadium, but the university is doing its best to give the South Carolina Gamecocks a hometown atmosphere for Saturday’s contest.
According to...
Here’s something you probably never thought you’d read at The New Republic.
Kudos to writer Matt Bruenig.
The Case Against Free College
In the United States, as in much of the rest of the world, college students receive three kinds of public benefits: tuition subsidies, living grants, and public loans. Through various combinations of...
A fraternity has been shut down and their charter revoked after cell phone video surfaced.
From the Indy Star:
IU fraternity shut down due to video
The national organization of Alpha Tau Omega has closed the Indiana University chapter and revoked its charter, citing the release of a sexually explicit cell phone video.
A news...
The Clinton supporters seem shocked that there are students who don’t support her.
Read more from the College Fix.
Young people protesting Hillary Clinton’s recent campaign stop at Broward College in Florida got quite an earful from a handful of die-hard Clinton supporters who were none too pleased by the demonstration.
About 12 college students and...
These campuses are the same size as midsize towns.
US News reports.
10 Universities With the Highest Undergrad Enrollment
The University of Central Florida had 52,532 undergraduate students in fall 2014, more than any other institution, according to U.S. News data.
The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series...
Why bother even having the debate? They’ve already answered their own question.
Alex Griswold reports at Mediaite.
Conservative Journalist Banned From Participating in University Debate on Censorship
The University of Manchester Student Union has banned Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos and Guardian journalist Julie Bindel from participating in a debate on whether or not modern...
What to do after someone honored falls from grace?
The New York Times reports.
To Revoke or Not: Colleges That Gave Cosby Honors Face a Tough Question
Every spring for decades, a similar scene played out at colleges across the United States: Students picked up their degrees — and Bill Cosby stood alongside them.
Schools...
Who could have predicted that a liberal policy would backfire?
The Star reports.
University of Toronto alters bathroom policy after two reports of voyeurism
The University of Toronto has decreased the number of gender-neutral bathrooms in one of its colleges after two women became victims of voyeurism when they were filmed while showering.
Toronto Police...
Making life just a little bit easier.
From Fortune:
An Amazon ‘pick-up’ store may be coming to a college near you
E-commerce giant Amazon plans to open more customer service outlets near college campuses so students can pick up their orders, according to several job listings on the company’s website.
Students...
Um, okay…
From Campus Reform:
UT prof. says campus carry will ‘shut down’ dissent, free speech
A professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) is concerned that a recently enacted law allowing concealed carry in university buildings will “shut down dissent and free speech,” according to an interview with The Trace on...
We have written about Professor Anthea Butler in the past. She’s back for saying something disgraceful about Ben Carson.
Christian Spencer of Campus Reform reports.
Ivy League prof. calls Ben Carson a ‘coon’
University of Pennsylvania Professor Anthea Butler called Presidential Candidate Ben Carson a “coon” for claiming that people have the right to...
Isn’t it more plausible that campus police are being armed to prevent campus shootings?
Christian Britschgi of the College Fix reports.
Oregon college gives guns to campus police to keep minorities down, anti-gun activists claim
‘Disarm PSU’ angry about being compared to Republicans
The shooting deaths of nine people at a gun-free Oregon college last...
No more standardized testing for this college.
Washington Post reports.
What one college discovered when it stopped accepting SAT/ACT score
Hampshire College is a liberal arts school in Massachusetts that has decided not to accept SAT/ACT scores from applicants. That’s right — the college won’t accept them, a step beyond the hundreds of “test-optional”...
New York congresswoman Carolyn Maloney thinks she has the solution to the student loan debt crisis. She wrote about it in Politico.
The Student Debt Crisis Solution
State governments and families hit hard by the recession now have fewer resources to commit to education. With states investing almost one-fourth less in public universities...
The claim is he had the intellectual capacity of an 18-month-old, and that the professor had assaulted him.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Rutgers professor convicted of sexually assaulting a disabled man
Anna Stubblefield, the former chair and professor of philosophy at Rutgers University at Newark, is facing 10-40 years in prison for aggravated sexual...
We wrote about this woman back in the spring but she’s back in the news.
The left likes speech codes. Let them live by their own rules.
The Independent reports.
Bahar Mustafa: Student officer who allegedly posted ‘kill all white men’ to malicious communications charges
A student diversity officer who was caught up in a...
This is one of the best stories you’ll read this week.
From Fox News:
Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to NY inmates
BOSTON – A group of New York inmates has toppled Harvard’s prestigious debate team.
It took place at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Napanoch. The Ivy...
Heaven forbid students be subjected to you know, laws…
From FIRE:
Middlebury Student Paper Condemns Judicial Scrutiny of College’s Disciplinary Processes
In a shocking editorial published last week, the staff of The Middlebury Campus railed against the ability of “outside individuals” like lawyers and judges to demand basic fairness from Middlebury College’s disciplinary processes.
The...
This doesn’t fit with what rape culture activists say at all.
Ashe Schow reports at the Washington Examiner.
Report: 1 in 5 campus rape reports are false
To take a page from alarmist writers who gleefully post headlines claiming that one-in-five women are sexually assaulted in college, I bring you some information that will...
Leave crime to the criminal justice system and education to the educators.
From The Courier-Journal:
College tribunals wrong venue for sex charges
Colleges must be terrifying places these days, with the supposed explosion of rape on campuses. Why would any parent pay $60,000 a year for private tuition if there truly is a “rape...
John D. Rockefeller is characterized by some as a greedy capitalist. Hillsdale College professor Burt Folsom sets the record straight in this new video from Prager University.
Was America’s first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, a greedy robber baron, a generous philanthropist, or both? And did the oil tycoon exploit America’s poor or...
