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Harvard Faculty Complains About Higher Costs Under Obamacare After Many of Them Backed It

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 8:00am

These Harvard professors were all for Obamacare when they thought other people would be affected by it and pay for it.

Now that it’s at their doorstep? Not so much.

Robert Pear of the New York Times:

Health Care Fixes Backed by Harvard’s Experts Now Roil Its Faculty

WASHINGTON — For years, Harvard’s experts on...

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Boston Looks into Overcrowded Student Housing

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Posted by    Monday, January 5, 2015 at 5:00pm

Student housing in Boston has always been an issue. Even with this new data, one has to wonder what the city is planning to do about it.

Todd Wallack of the Boston Globe reports.

Boston zeroes in on overcrowded student housing

Boston housing officials have identified roughly 580 potentially overcrowded student apartments across the...

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New Data from Census Bureau Paints Stark Picture for Recent College Grads

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Posted by    Monday, January 5, 2015 at 2:00pm

Unemployment among Millennials is still high and college isn’t getting any cheaper.

The editors of the New York Post recently examined the issue.

Overpaying for college

If millennials today think transitioning out of their parents’ basements and into adulthood is difficult, wait until they see new data from the Census Bureau. It reports that...

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Atheists Demand Apology from Troy University for Linking God with Democracy

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Posted by    Monday, January 5, 2015 at 11:00am

This will be the first of many angry atheist stories of 2015.

Michael Gryboski of the Christian Post reported.

Atheists Demand Troy University Apologizes for Saying Belief in God Is Essential for Democracy to Work in Video Sent to Students

A national atheist organization is demanding that the chancellor of Troy University in Alabama...

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The $40 Million Dollar College Football Coach

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Posted by    Monday, January 5, 2015 at 8:00am

The University of Michigan is about to spend a lot of money to hire Jim Harbaugh.

John Feinstein of the Washington Post reports.

Why Jim Harbaugh is worth $40 million to the University of Michigan’s football team

The University of Michigan’s decision this week to commit at least $40 million to Jim Harbaugh over...

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New College Ratings System May Hurt Disadvantaged Students

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Posted by    Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 3:30pm

We’re from the government and we’re here to help.

Michael L. Lomax recently wrote this at the Washington Post.

A proposed federal college rating system could hurt disadvantaged students

Last month, the Obama administration released the draft metrics of its long-awaited college rating system. Unfortunately, the proposed system appears to have major shortcomings —...

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Jesuit Universities Move Catholic Education to the Left

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Posted by    Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 12:30pm

Among Catholic universities, Jesuit schools tend to be more liberal. That earns them praise from outlets like The Atlantic.

This piece by Autumn Jones is a perfect example.

The New Brand of Jesuit Universities

A Jesuit priest and a comedian walk into a bar…

That may sound like the beginning of a Catholic joke, but...

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Harvard Law Prof Alan Dershowitz Accused of Sexual Assault – He vigorously denies

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Posted by    Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 9:30am

Dershowitz denies the accusations and is already preparing legal action. Anyone who would wrongly accuse Dershowitz of anything is either very brave or very stupid.

Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner reported.

Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz fights accusations of sexual assault

Unlike other celebrities and politicians who have allowed sexual assault accusations to ruin...

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Is the Department of Education Helping Schools Hide Sexual-Assault Investigations?

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Posted by    Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 3:30pm

If true, why isn’t this information being reported by the news media?

Samantha Watkins of the College Fix reports.

Department of Education helps schools hide their sexual-assault investigations

Agency’s previous interaction with University of Montana led to controversial harassment ‘blueprint’

Even as the Department...

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Campus Speech Codes Silence Pro-Israel Students

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Posted by    Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 12:30pm

Speech codes aren’t good for anyone but they present a real challenge to pro-Israel students.

From the Jerusalem Post.

How campus speech codes silence the pro-Israel community

The infamous Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns and “apartheid week” displays on college campuses are not the only threat to Jewish students. A much greater threat...

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Harvard Law Prof Calls Fed Approach to Sexual Assault ‘Madness’

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Posted by    Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 9:30am

Harvard recently adopted the federal position on campus sexual assaults.

Joe Palazzolo of the Wall Street Journal reported.

Harvard Law Professor: Feds’ Position on Sexual-Assault Policies Is ‘Madness’

On Tuesday, the Department of Education said Harvard Law School’s current and past harassment policies and procedures didn’t comply with Title IX requirements, which bar gender...

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FOX News Covers Extreme Helicopter Parenting Story

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Posted by    Friday, January 2, 2015 at 6:30pm

This video segment is about a story we recently covered.

Should parents be following their kids to college?

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Former New York Times Reporter Banned from Penn for Calling ISIS ‘the new Israel’

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Posted by    Friday, January 2, 2015 at 5:00pm

What an offensive and ignorant thing to say.

Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.

Calling ISIS ‘the new Israel’ gets former New York Times reporter banned from Penn

Via The Daily Pennsylvanian, this reminder that some anti-Israel rhetoric is too much for even Israel critics to tolerate.

Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges...

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There Won’t be any Student Athlete Unions at Public Colleges in Michigan

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Posted by    Friday, January 2, 2015 at 2:00pm

The governor just forbade them. Blake Neff of the Daily Caller has the story.

Michigan Bans Student Athlete Unions

Athletes at Michigan universities are prohibited from unionizing under a new law signed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Snyder.

The law, hastily introduced and passed by Michigan Republicans during the state legislature’s lame-duck session, requires that...

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Occidental College Prof: Blame the NRA for Murder of New York Cops

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Posted by    Friday, January 2, 2015 at 11:00am

I’m not sure what if anything the NRA had to do with the recent murder of two New York cops but Professor Peter Dreier seems convinced in this article from Talking Points Memo.

Take The NRA To Task, Not De Blasio, For The NYC Cop Murders

It’s been more than a week since...

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Will 2015 be a Good Year for Due Process on Campus?

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Posted by    Friday, January 2, 2015 at 8:00am

We can only hope it’s better than 2014, right?

Robby Soave of Reason:

As the Campus Rape Narrative Unravels, Will Due Process Strike Back in 2015?

It was undoubtedly a year of heightened paranoia about rape on college campuses, with everyone from Lena Dunham to President Obama demanding immediate action to curtail a purported...

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University in Michigan Votes to Banish Certain Words

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Posted by    Thursday, January 1, 2015 at 5:00pm

This is apparently a long standing tradition at Michigan’s Lake Superior State University. It’s not a free speech issue as much as not wanting to hear certain words anymore because they’re overused or misused.

Cheryl K. Chumley of the Washington Times reported.

Michigan university votes on ‘banished’ words: ‘Swag,’ ‘foodie,’ cra-cra,’ ‘hack’

Michigan’s Lake...

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Professor – It’s Time for UVA to Apologize

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Posted by    Thursday, January 1, 2015 at 2:00pm

Robert F. Turner is a professor at UVA. He wrote this column for the Richmond Times-Dispatch with his son who is a student at the school.

It’s time for a UVa. apology

One of us has taught at the University of Virginia for more than 25 years; the other, his son, is a...

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University of Alabama at Birmingham Ends Football Program

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Posted by    Thursday, January 1, 2015 at 11:00am

This is pretty shocking news. How could they just drop their football program?

Jenny Jarvie of the LA Times reported.

University in Alabama ends football program, angering just about everyone

In the powerhouse world of Alabama college football, the Blazers have long been the scrappy underdog.

This season, there was a turnaround for the University...

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Pro-life Students Attacked for Criticizing Planned Parenthood at a Catholic University

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Posted by    Thursday, January 1, 2015 at 8:00am

Considering that Fairfield is a Catholic school, maybe it’s the College Democrats who are out of step here.

Anthony Gockowski of the College Fix reports.

Pro-life students attacked for criticizing Planned Parenthood

It all started in October with rows of crosses. Pink ones. Nearly 1,000 of them.

They were neatly spread along a lawn at ...

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UCLA Grad Students Hold Sit-in to Protest Hostility Against Minorities

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Posted by    Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 5:00pm

Call me cynical but I have a hard time believing that UCLA is a hotbed of racism.

Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reported.

In-Class Sit-In

The University of California at Los Angeles has come under fire multiple times this fall for the state of race relations there. First, concern over the treatment of...

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Campus Reform Looks Back at Bias on Campus in 2014

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Posted by    Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 2:00pm

Caleb Bonham of Campus Reform recently appeared on FOX and Friends to examine some of the big stories about liberal bias on campus in 2014.

If you read College Insurrection, you know there was no shortage of material.

Sterling Beard has more.

Campus Reform’s year in review

Campus Reform’s Editor-in-Chief Caleb Bonham joinedFox & Friends...

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