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Protesters at UC Berkeley Shut Down Speech by PayPal Founder Peter Thiel

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Posted by    Friday, December 12, 2014 at 11:00am

The protesters were shouting “no police state, no NSA.”

At some point, someone has got to stand up to this anti-free speech trend on campus. These idiotic student protesters obviously had no idea that Thiel is a Libertarian who opposes government overreach in the form of the NSA.

Joel B. Pollak of...

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New DOJ Data Suggests College Students Are Less Likely to be Assaulted

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Posted by    Friday, December 12, 2014 at 8:00am

You would never know this if you only paid attention to all the hyperventilating about “rape culture” on campus.

From The Federalist.

New DOJ Data On Sexual Assaults: College Students Are Actually Less Likely To Be Victimized

A new report on sexual assault released today by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officially puts...

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Bowdoin College Students in Trouble for Dressing as Native Americans for Thanksgiving

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Posted by    Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 5:00pm

The students are part of the school’s Lacrosse team. Isn’t Lacrosse based on a Native American sport?

CBS 13 WGME reported.

Bowdoin College to discipline student athletes for dressing in Native American costumes

Fourteen student-athletes at Bowdoin College are facing disciplinary action after they dressed up as Native Americans for a Thanksgiving party.

Tim Foster,...

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MIT Prof Fired For Sexually Harassing Student

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Posted by    Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 2:00pm

The professor retired in 2009 and was teaching online courses.

Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reported.

MIT Professor Fired For Sexually Harassing Student

The lectures of one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) most popular professors have started disappearing from the Internet after the university found that he was using the school’s...

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Now Berkeley Students Want Exam Delays Due to Ferguson Protests

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Posted by    Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 11:00am

This is what happens when college students think activism is more important than their education.

NBC Washington reports.

Students Want Exam Delays Amid Brown, Garner Cases

Minority students at three prestigious law schools want to delay final exams because they’ve been busy protesting grand jury decisions in...

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Harvard Prof Throws a Fit After Being Overcharged $4 at Chinese Restaurant

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Posted by    Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 8:00am

Harvard Business School must not pay very much. I can’t understand why else this professor would get so angry over a four dollar mistake.

Hilary Sargent of Boston.com reported.

Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School Professor, Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food

Ben Edelman is an associate professor at Harvard Business School,...

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Accrediting Agency Places Norfolk State University on Probation

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Posted by    Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 5:00pm

File this story under higher ed bubble.

Corinne Reilly of the Virginian-Pilot reported.

Norfolk State University placed on probation

Norfolk State University has been placed on probation by its accrediting agency, a downgrade from the warning status the campus was given a year ago.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, or SACS, publicly announced...

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UVA Refuses to Reinstate Fraternity Activities

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Posted by    Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 2:00pm

In light of everything that’s come out in the last week, you would think the administration would apologize to all the fraternities on campus.

Larry O’Dell of the Associated Press reported.

UVa won’t reinstate fraternity activities

The University of Virginia refused to reinstate Greek activities that were suspended...

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Harvard Law Students Can’t Handle Final Exams Because of Ferguson and Garner

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Posted by    Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 11:00am

These students simply shouldn’t become lawyers. If they can’t handle this, how are they going to defend or prosecute someone accused of a crime like murder?

Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review addressed this yesterday.

Social Injustice Ate My Homework

If there were a First Rule of our present penchant for victimhood, it would...

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South Texas College Prof Compares Tea Party to Nazis

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Posted by    Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 8:00am

The professor asked students not to share his remarks but they were already captured on video.

Oops!

Jason Howerton of The Blaze reported.

Prof. Tells Students Not to ‘Tell Anybody’ About His Vexed Tea Party ‘Analogy’ — He Didn’t Know It Was Already Caught on Video

A psychology professor at South Texas College in Weslaco,...

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Graduate Teaching Fellows on Strike at University of Oregon

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 5:00pm

The school could always just fire them. There’s no shortage of grad students in America.

Oregon Live reported.

Strike continues as finals begin at University of Oregon

Graduate teaching fellows remain on strike today, as finals weeks begins University of Oregon in Eugene.

The 1,500 teaching assistants represented by the Gr...

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Donor Rescinds $4.5 Million Gift to U. Illinois Over Former Terrorist Prof

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 2:00pm

Professor James Kilgore is a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. He was ousted at the University of Illinois but there’s a growing movement to bring him back. That news has caused a donor to withhold a major gift to the school.

Maggie Lit of Campus Reform reported.

Donor withholds $4.5 million...

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Michigan State Students Go Nuts Over George Will Commencement Speech

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 11:00am

George Will committed the heretical crime of challenging the rape culture narrative and leftists will never forgive him for it.

Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reported.

Students At Michigan State Hysterical Over George Will Commencement Speech

Students at Michigan State University are up in arms over the school’s invitation of syndicated columnist George...

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Holocaust Author: Profs Prefer Ignorance to Truth about Middle East

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 8:00am

Campus BDS activists, please take note.

Mariana Barillas of the College Fix reported.

Holocaust author: Professors prefer ignorance to truth about Middle East

Editor’s Note: The article has been updated.

Nearly all modern genocides “begin on the campus,” the author of controversial books on the Holocaust and U.S. indirect financing...

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UC Sex Columnist Writes of Affair With Prof

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Posted by    Monday, December 8, 2014 at 5:00pm

Boni Mata of the Daily Californian recently wrote of a rather provocative relationship.

So, I slept with my professor

When my professor walked in on the first day of class in all his statuesque glory, wearing a half-buttoned Oxford shirt and chalk-covered slacks, I nearly dropped my pants on the spot. “Love at...

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Cornell Prof Says Whites ‘Ready to Commit Race Suicide’ Over Ferguson

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Posted by    Monday, December 8, 2014 at 2:00pm

This story was first reported by Casey Breznick who has written for College Insurrection.

Via the Washington Free Beacon.

Ivy League Professor: Whites ‘Ready to Commit Race Suicide’

Cornell University history professor Russell Rickford said that whites are “ready to perform treason to whiteness” and “commit race suicide” during a townhall event on Wednesday,...

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UVA Student Paper Editor: “To let fact checking define the narrative would be a huge mistake”

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Posted by    Monday, December 8, 2014 at 11:00am

Julia Horowitz is the assistant managing editor UVA’s student newspaper. She wrote this article for Politico.

Why We Believed Jackie’s Rape Story

It was a near-unanimous reaction: shock, but not surprise. Disgust, but not doubt. Those were the feelings that characterized the endless conversations I had as a University of Virginia student following...

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Columbia Law School Lets Students Postpone Finals Over Distress of Brown and Garner Cases

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Posted by    Monday, December 8, 2014 at 8:00am

So much for treating college students like adults.

Paul Mirengoff of Powerline reported.

Not a parody

Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams. Here is the text of a...

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Going to College Later in Life Doesn’t Hurt Earning Potential

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Posted by    Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 3:30pm

According to a new report from Andrew Dugan at Gallup, going to college later won’t hurt your potential for earning a higher income.

Graduating College Later in Life Doesn’t Hamper Income

Despite delaying their college education, nontraditional college graduates — defined here as those who earn their degree at age 25 or older...

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Liberal UC Berkeley Claims Exemption From Higher Minimum Wage

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Posted by    Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 12:30pm

Another classic case of do as I say, not as I do.

Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.

Hyperliberal UC Berkeley Won’t Pay Higher Minimum Wage

Famous nationwide as a bastion of liberalism, the University of California-Berkeley has chosen to ignore a local ordinance raising the minimum wage, claiming an exemption as a...

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Catholic college administration rolls over for the SEIU

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Posted by    Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 9:30am

The SEIU is desperately seeking new members and they see colleges as ripe for the picking.

Samantha Watkins of the College Fix reported.

Catholic college administration rolls over for union activists

Contingent faculty at St. Mary’s College will vote on whether to unionize later this month, and the school’s administration has made clear it...

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Hillary Clinton Speech at Georgetown Has Many Empty Seats

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Posted by    Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 3:30pm

It doesn’t look like college students are as ga-ga for Hillary as they were for Obama.

The Washington Free Beacon reported.

Camera Catches Empty Seats at Hillary Clinton’s Georgetown Speech

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to pack the seats during her address on “Smart Power” at Georgetown University on Wednesday, indicating a...

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