Isn’t it strange how some people are acting like the now discredited story about rape at UVA really happened?
CBS News in Washington, DC reported.
National Leaders Tell U. Va. Sororities to Avoid Frat Bid Night
Sororities at the University of Virginia have been told to stay away from fraternity recruitment events scheduled Saturday.
The...
A sad story and a reminder to students. Don’t let your phone distract you from your surroundings.
Ishita Mishra of the Times of India reports.
Selfie in front of running train costs three college-goers their life
Attempts to click “eye-catching pictures” to upload them on social networking sites cost three college going friends from...
Maybe the labels should also indicate foods which contain molecules and atoms.
Ilya Somin of the Washington Post reported.
Over 80 percent of Americans support “mandatory labels on foods containing DNA”
A recent survey by the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Economics finds that over 80 percent of Americans support “mandatory labels on...
After all, she did such a bang-up job with Obamacare, right?
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Ohio State wants to give Kathleen Sebelius an honorary degree
Remember the lady who flubbed the Affordable Care Act roll out so badly that she resigned in disgrace? Ohio State wants to give the Obamacare flunky one of...
A new video from Christina Hoff Sommers offers the facts vs. the myths about sexual assault with an eye to college campuses.
Watch below.
National Review has more.
The “Factual Feminist” on Sexual Assault
In the American Enterprise Institute’s ongoing YouTube video series, the “Factual Feminist,” myth-laden feminist talking points are critically analyzed and, ultimately,...
Just wondering, which other countries let non-citizens vote in their elections?
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
Professor: America Should Let Illegal Aliens VOTE
Earlier this month, a professor at Queens College, City University of New York asserted that “the right to vote in this country has never been...
Our friend Hans Bader has written a new column for the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Did Slanted NPR Story Lead to Hasty, Illegal Education Department Sexual Harassment Rules?
Bad things can happen when an agency (like the Education Department) throws caution to the wind and regulates based on slanted media coverage from National Public Radio,...
How did they think this was a good plan? Luckily they’ve dropped it. What does it say about Obama that even Nancy Pelosi thought this was a bad idea?
Bernie Becker of The Hill reports.
Obama scraps plan to tax college accounts
President Obama is scrapping his proposal to tax withdrawals from a popular...
Here’s another example of how an accusation of rape can nearly ruin a student’s life.
Stephanie Barry reports via Masslive.
Amherst College settles suit filed after diploma withheld over rape allegation
A lawsuit filed by an Amherst College student who argued the school unfairly held up his academic career over an old, unproven allegation...
It turns out the ‘Dark Ages’ weren’t as dark as you might think.
Check out this fascinating new Prager University video hosted by Professor Anthony Esolen of Providence College.
Here’s more information.
Course Description
Were the Middle Ages, also known as the Dark Ages, characterized by oppression, ignorance, and backwardness in areas like human rights,...
Don’t you love it when a politician says something honest?
I don’t mean to take the governor out of context. Read the report by Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed.
The New Normal at Berkeley
California Governor Jerry Brown this week said the state’s flagship — the University of California at Berkeley — has closed...
Lena Dunham’s account of her own sexual assault at Oberlin has been a controversial subject for months due to details which have fallen apart under scrutiny.
That didn’t keep her from discussing campus rape on a panel at the Sundance Film Festival.
Dominic Patten and Anthony D’Alessandro of Deadline Hollywood reported.
Lena Dunham Tackles...
Rodrigo Kazuo And Meg Perret of the Daily Cal are tootin’ mad. Who cares about all those old, white male philosophers anyway?
Occupy the syllabus
We are calling for an occupation of syllabi in the social sciences and humanities. This call to action was instigated by our experience last semester as students in...
In a new columnn at the Daily Beast, Christina Hoff Sommers explains how the media plays a role in campus rape culture.
The Media Is Making College Rape Culture Worse
In 2010, a small team of investigative journalists published a report revealing, so they claimed, an epidemic of college r...
Howie Carr has a few thoughts on Obama’s proposal to tax 529 college savings plans.
Carr: No child’s college fund left behind
If you work for a living, Barack Obama is looking to rob you — again.
This time he and his Democrat kleptocrats are after your 529s. Those are the states’ college-savings plans,...
This editorial from the New York Post perfectly describes the vicious cycle of student loan debt.
The college bubble
On one thing President Obama and Gov. Cuomo are agreed: The answer to high tuition and crushing student debt is more money from the government.
Problem is, it’s precisely government dollars that are driving up...
Another case of do as I say, not as I do.
Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.
Obama took advantage of 529s — before he killed ‘em
As noted at The College Fix back on January 20, one of the ideas you’ll not likely hear about in President Obama’s tax machinations is the...
People like him built that.
Naturally.
Via Eric Owens of the Daily Caller.
Obama Says Politicians Invented College [VIDEO]
In one of his much-hyped interviews with YouTube stars on Thursday, President Barack Obama declared that politicians created colleges and universities through big-government legislation.
“The truth of the matter is: The reason we even have colleges is...
Funny how no one seems to notice when professors criticize Christianity.
Mark Tapson of Frontpage Mag reports.
Vanderbilt Professor Under Attack for Criticizing Islam
Last week, in response to the Paris massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, Carol M. Swain, an openly conservative professor of political science...
This is a journalism dean. He has a weird interpretation of the first amendment.
Alexandra Zimmern of the College Fix reported.
Journalism dean: Free speech doesn’t protect offensive images of Mohammad
Free speech attorney says scholar is way off the mark
DeWayne Wickham, dean and distinguished professor of journalism at Morgan State University, published an...
It loos like senator Kirsten Gillibrand has taken up campus rape as an issue. Perhaps she should think about how she shows support.
KC Johnson of Minding the Campus reports. Hat tip to Instapundit.
Shame On Gillibrand
Apart from Claire McCaskill, no senator has more aggressively advocated weakening due process protections for students accused...
In a new post at See Thru Edu, Robert Paquette compares the play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” with some of the “theater” we’ve been seeing on college campuses.
Hamilton College Professor: School’s Latest ‘Lie’
In the movie version of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, “Big...
