College Insurrection Tag

UMass Boston Student Charged in Firebombing of Tesla Dealership in Missouri

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 20, 2025 4 Comments

“ATF’s Special Agents and forensic experts recovered and analyzed key evidence—including Molotov cocktails—used in this deliberate and dangerous arson attack”...

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New Prof at Berklee College of Music Allegedly Demanded Jews ‘Apologize’ for ‘Oppressing’ Black People

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 20, 2025 13 Comments

“All these so-called Jews mad, because how dare I make them face the facts of their sordid past and present of them oppressing black people”...

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Judge Rules Tufts Student Detained by ICE Must be Returned From Louisiana to Vermont

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 20, 2025 5 Comments

“The Court concludes that this case will continue in this court with Ms. Ozturk physically present for the remainder of the proceedings”...

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Judge Rules Fathers Can’t Wear Pink Wristbands to Protest Biological Males in Girls’ Sports

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 19, 2025 18 Comments

“The message generally ascribed to the XX symbol, in a context such as that presented here, can reasonably be understood as directly assaulting those who identify as transgender women.”...

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Washington Post Publishes Op-Ed by Mahmoud Khalil

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 19, 2025 15 Comments

"Why should protesting Israel’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?"...

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UNC-Chapel Hill to Drop ‘Health Equity and Social Justice’ Concentration in Graduate Program

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 19, 2025 1 Comment

“our current political context was not a factor in this decision”...

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Trump vs. the Ivy League Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 19, 2025 1 Comment

Your weekly report on education news....

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Central Michigan U. Rebranding DEI Office as ‘Division of University Engagement and Student Affairs’

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2025 2 Comments

"leaders will develop a new webpage for the unit and communicate planned changes with the campus community throughout the summer"...

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Self-Described Communist Instructor at Washington State U. Allegedly Assaulted Student Over Trump Hat

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2025 46 Comments

"Mahoney has been active in pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the city and is linked to the Democratic Socialists of America and other progressive labor groups."...

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Law Students at Harvard Hold ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon’ Targeting Firms That Criticized School’s Response to Antisemitism

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2025 8 Comments

"to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses"...

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Still Claiming He Retired as a Command Sergeant Major

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2025 8 Comments

"After 24 years in the Army National Guard, Command Sergeant Major Walz retired from the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in 2005."...

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Universities “Need to Look Inward” As To Cause Of Backlash Against Higher Ed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2025 8 Comments

"They love for everything to look like America, but the campuses don't look like America because in America you find pro-Israel people by a majority, you find a lot of conservatives, you find none of that on the campuses. I think they need to look...

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Florida State University: 2 Killed, Suspect is Son of a Deputy

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 17, 2025 29 Comments

The school told students to take shelter....

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Limestone University in South Carolina Closing Campus After 179 Years

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 17, 2025 3 Comments

"The board is expected to convene on April 22 to discuss the school's future and all in-person classes are set to end at the end of the spring semester"...

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Trump Drops the Big One on Harvard, Asks IRS to Revoke Their Tax-Exempt Status

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 17, 2025 39 Comments

"Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting 'Sickness?'"...

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UMass Receives $80K State Grant to Promote ‘Abortion Access’

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 17, 2025 3 Comments

“The UHS leadership is thrilled to be able to continue to provide, as well as expand, our comprehensive reproductive health services to the UMass Amherst and Five College communities”...

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STEM Panelist at UW-Madison Says Gender Binary is ‘Eugenic Construct’

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 17, 2025 21 Comments

"Through collaboration with feminist studies scholars, I learned that the idea of a discrete sex binary did not originate from validated biological inquiry but from cultural prejudices validated by eugenics"...

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Six Discriminatory Scholarships at Westfield State U (MA) Challenged by Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2025 2 Comments

“If you only take first-year students, it should be open to all first-year students. Our goal is not to end the scholarships. We want the students to get the money, but we think every student should have an equal shot.”...

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