Aren’t students supposed to be getting more mature?
The Blaze reports.
College Might Be Turning Your Kid Into A Giant Baby
Trigger warning.
Young people are entering college as budding adults and being immediately turned back into babies. That’s basically all I’ve gleaned from the fascist antics at the University of Missouri this week, although...
In a new column at the Fiscal Times, Ed Morrissey notes that what we’re seeing on college campuses right now is reminiscent of a darker time in world history.
Yale, Mizzou and Others—Training a Generation of Proto-Fascists
After a claim that someone had created a fecal swastika on a bathroom wall – another...
Hundreds gathered on the campus to witness the protest.
Ithaca Journal reports.
‘We are here, and we demand change’ say IC protesters
The chant: “Tom Rochon. No confidence” echoed across campus Wednesday, shouted by at least a thousand students who took part in a “Solidarity Walk Out” at Ithaca College.
The demonstration was a response...
This video is so painful to watch. An organizer of the #MillionStudentMarch is asked by Neil Cavuto of FOX Business who is going to pay for the free college and other perks these students are demanding.
Her whole argument is taking money from the rich and giving it to the government. If...
Learning nothing from the Seattle Seahawks, the Indianapolis Colts also tried to commandeer one of the Aggies’ most sacred traditions.
KHOU reports:
Texas A&M sues Indianapolis Colts over ’12th Man’ trademark
COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M has filed a lawsuit against the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts seeking to protect its “12th Man” trademark rights.
Texas A&M...
Our friend Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has written a new column for USA Today which is well worth reading.
After Yale, Mizzou, raise the voting age — to 25
In 1971, the United States ratified the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. In retrospect, th...
It probably wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
Stephen Miller writes for National Review:
What if Civil-Rights-Era Protesters Had Demanded Safe Spaces?
Much has been made this week of a University of Missouri student-activist group’s demanding everything from their university president’s resignation (he obliged) to the wall...
Wait, you mean students at the University of Missouri are expected to take exams when a protest is going on? What an outrage.
Peter Hasson reports at Campus Reform.
Mizzou prof. resigns following outrage over his refusal to cancel exam
Dr. Dale Brigham, considered one of the most beloved professors at the University of...
They kicked off their divestment movement by delivering a letter to the president.
The Cornell Daily Sun reports.
Black Students United Calls for Prison Divestment
Twelve students from Black Students United — a student-run umbrella organization representing the interests of black Cornellians — entered President Elizabeth Garrett’s office Tuesday to submit a letter outlining...
Professor Carol Swain is a conservative Christian so she must be a bigot, right?
Trey Sanchez reports at Truth Revolt.
Now at Vanderbilt: Conservative Professor Targeted by Offended Students
The safe spaces of students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee are being threatened by a black conservative professor of law who is outspoken about...
The students who drove him out have been complaining that Wolfe did not respond forcibly enough in the wake of certain racist incidents on campus.
Ricochet reports.
The Theater of White Guilt
The President of the University of Missouri resigned in a dramatic, televised speech this morning. He must have done something really bad,...
This short film is making the rounds on the internet for its harsh yet accurate portrayal of the extreme left wing political correctness which has taken hold on so many college campuses.
Watch it all below.
Well this just gets better and better.
Fox News reports:
Students at University of Missouri asked to report ‘hateful,’ ‘hurtful’ speech
Students at the University of Missouri are being encouraged to report “incidents of hateful and/or hurtful speech” to the University Police Department, according to an email sent out by campus police officials...
In the latest video from Prager University, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA explains how politicians and universities wash each other’s hands with cash from taxpayers.
Watch it all below.
If higher education is nothing more than an extended adolescent playground for the emotionally sheltered, then heck yes.
Andrew McCarthy writes at National Review:
Stop Paying for College
I have a proposal: Let’s turn the whole damn campus into a “space of healing.”
Such “spaces,” we learn in Rich’s excellent column on the...
An administrative assistant at Coastal Carolina University may have blown through over $50,000 in less than a year using a school credit card for personal expenses.
Someone’s in big trouble.
WTBW News reports.
Coastal Carolina University employee embezzles more than $50K, report states
A Coastal Carolina University staff member is accused of embezzling more than...
As the last few days have demonstrated, this issue is completely out of control.
The College Fix reports.
Using offensive words an ‘act of violence,’ majority of students surveyed say
Using offensive words is an “act of violence,” according to a majority of students recently surveyed in a nationwide poll.
These numbers indicate a growing...
Considering how expensive college has become, it’s difficult to disagree.
Watch Rubio’s recent comments below.
CNS News reports.
Rubio: ‘A Student Loan Is Worse’ Than Indentured Servitude
During an appearance at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said taking out a student loan is worse than...
The university submitted an amicus curiae brief to the court, which is preparing to consider the case of Abigail Fisher for the second time.
Bloomberg Business reports.
Harvard Aggressively Defends Affirmative Action
Harvard University waded into a Supreme Court battle over affirmative action in colleges and universities last week, with a full-throated defense of...
If you go to this school, you better be careful when you’re telling Jokes.
Samantha Harris of the FIRE blog reports.
Speech Code of the Month: Southwest Minnesota State University
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for November 2015: Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU).
SMSU’s Prohibited Code of Conduct for students bans “cultural...
The collegiate desire for Trigger warnings and safe spaces are officially out of control.
Amelia Hamilton explores the phenomenon at The Stream:
This Article Is Not a Safe Space
College was supposed to be place for young adults to prepare for full-fledged adulthood, a stepping stone away from childhood and towards independence and responsibility....
Nothing racist about the name of this event, huh? One white student tried to attend and got turned away.
The College Fix reports.
White student turned away from ‘Stop White People’ multicultural luncheon
A white student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst who recently attempted to attend a “Stop White People” multicultural campus luncheon was...
