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Seminar at Boston Latin Criticized for Racist Tone

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Posted by    Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 3:30pm

The seminar is being criticized as anti-white and anti-police.

New Boston Post reports.

Boston Latin parents protest tone of race seminar

A trio of angry Boston Latin School parents claim that race-related workshops last month featured overtly “anti-white, anti-police sentiment,” in a complaint to city school administrators, according to sources familiar with the...

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Student Arrested for Calling Classmate ‘Homoerotic’ Gets Cyberbullying Law Overturned

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Posted by    Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 12:30pm

Who even knew you could be arrested for such a thing?

The College Fix reports.

Student arrested for calling his classmate ‘homoerotic’ gets N.C.’s cyberbullying law overturned

Posting to the internet is an “act,” not “speech,” so you can arrest someone for saying something mean.

That was the logic of the North Carol...

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Easily Offended Millennials Could Threaten the Jobs of Professors

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Posted by    Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 9:30am

This could actually cause a change in the anti-free speech climate on many campuses.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Professors’ fear: Easily-offended Millennials could cost them their jobs

An over-protection of millennials minds has led to a pervasive fear on college campuses – students fear being offended and professors fear offending them.

Academic leaders at the...

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Man Sues Notre Dame for Displaying Art He Claims Was Stolen

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Posted by    Friday, June 17, 2016 at 5:00pm

The man says the art was stolen from his father.

FOX News reports.

Lawsuit: Notre Dame displaying stolen early American art

A Pennsylvania man is suing the University of Notre Dame, alleging the Indiana school is displaying $575,000 worth of early American art that was stolen from his fa...

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Dartmouth to Spend Almost $150 Million Promoting Diversity

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Posted by    Friday, June 17, 2016 at 2:00pm

We’ve reached the point where diversity is more important than academics.

Campus Reform reports.

Dartmouth to spend $145M promoting diversity, inclusion

Dartmouth College has pledged at least $145 million to be parceled out to various diversity initiatives over the next ten years as part of its Action Plan for Inclusive Excellence.

“We have concluded that...

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Professor Rejects Marxism After Traveling the World

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Posted by    Friday, June 17, 2016 at 11:00am

Perhaps we need to fund a study abroad program that sends professors to socialist countries.

The College Fix reports.

Professor rejects Marxism after traveling the globe: ‘Socialism doesn’t work’

At least one professor in America does not feel the Bern.

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Jack Stauder says his political and ideological conversion away from...

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Harvard Law Grad Suing NY State Board After Failing Bar Exam

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Posted by    Friday, June 17, 2016 at 8:00am

Wait until you read the basis for her suit below. Wow.

Law Newz reports.

Harvard Law Grad Sues After She Failed Bar Exam and Lost $160k Per Year Job

A Harvard Law grad is suing the New York State Board of Law Examiners, claiming its refusal to provide her requested testing accommodations caused her...

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Wayne State University Drops Math Requirement and May Replace With Diversity

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Posted by    Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 5:00pm

If you have one diversity and I give you another diversity, how many diversities do you have?

The Daily Caller reports.

Public College Drops Math Requirement, May Replace It With Diversity

A public university in Michigan has announced it’s deleting a requirement that all students complete at least one math course before graduating. At...

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Mizzou Race Activist Hijacks Vigil for Orlando Terror Victims

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Posted by    Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 2:00pm

Expecting any class from Black Lives Matter activists or Mizzou students is apparently pointless.

Everything is all about them. Always.

The College Fix reported.

WATCH: Mizzou race activist hijacks Orlando vigil as gay community rebukes her

‘Multicultural’ official scolds whites who preach unity

A vigil Monday planned by several University of Missouri student organizations was supposed...

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College in Sweden Refunds American Student’s Tuition for Useless Degree

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Posted by    Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 11:00am

Here’s another real news story that looks like something out of The Onion.

By the way, the useless degree was in economics.

The Associated Press reported.

US Student Wins Tuition Refund in Sweden for Useless Degree

A Swedish college has been ordered to refund tuition fees to an American business student for giving her a...

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Marxist Professors Significantly Outnumber Conservatives on Campus

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Posted by    Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 8:00am

This isn’t very surprising news but it needs to be said again and again as a reminder that higher education is not even closely balanced on politics.

Accuracy in Academia reports.

Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors

At a recent American Enterprise Institute (AEI) event, panel speakers outlined how self-identifying Marxists outnumber...

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Drexel University Law Prof Calls for Repeal of Second Amendment

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 5:00pm

The professor made his case in an article for Rolling Stone Magazine but we’re going to use a Campus Reform report to tell you about it.

Drexel law prof. blasts ‘outdated,’ Second Amendment

The Second Amendment is “outdated, a threat to liberty, and a suicide pact” and should be repe...

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Student at University of Alabama Tests Positive for Zika Virus

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 2:00pm

If this gets a foothold on college campuses, the result could be disastrous.

AL.com reports.

University of Alabama student tests positive for Zika

A University of Alabama student who recently studied abroad has tested positive for Zika virus, according to a spokesman for the school.

“Federal privacy laws prevent us from commenting on the student’s...

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Why is the Media Ignoring the Clintons’ University Scandal?

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 11:00am

We all know why the media is ignoring this, right?

Investor’s Business Daily reports.

Why Isn’t The Press Covering Clinton For-Profit University Scheme?

Corruption: No doubt you’ve heard all about Donald Trump and the defunct Trump University. The big media have been all over that “scandal.” But what about Bill Clinton, Hillary’s husband, and...

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Milo Yiannopoulos Speech at U. Central Florida Cancelled Over Security Concerns

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 8:00am

Have you noticed that this never happens to liberal speakers on campus?

Heat Street reports.

Police Cancel Milo Yiannopoulos’ Orlando Speech on Muslims and Gays

Citing safety concerns, campus police have canceled a speech by conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of Central Florida that he scheduled in the wake of the Orlando...

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U. Toronto Campus Shuts Down Over False Report of Masked Gunman

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 5:00pm

People reported seeing a suspicious man wearing a surgical mask.

National Post reports.

No masked gunman at University of Toronto: Report to police was ‘third-hand information’

The University of Toronto shuttered its downtown campus and two hospitals went into lockdown Monday as police investigated reports of a masked man with a gun.

But after six...

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Prager University – Black Fathers Matter

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 2:00pm

In a new video for Prager University, talk host Larry Elder examines the the role absent fathers have played in the black community.

Take a look below.

Here’s more information:

Which poses a bigger threat to black communities: Racism? Or the absence of fathers? Drawing on a sea of official data and his own...

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U. Minnesota Students Invade Regents Meeting Demanding Free Tuition

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 11:00am

If the school has any guts or brains they’ll expel every single one of them.

Campus Reform reported.

UMN students occupy Regents meeting to demand free tuition

A throng of leftist protesters at the University of Minnesota (UMN) chanted their way into handcuffs Friday as they attempted to hijack a board of regents meeting...

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DePaul University President Stepping Down After Protests From Campus Left

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 8:00am

Left wing students prevented Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking on campus, then attacked the school’s president for allowing him to come in the first place. Now the president is stepping down.

The Chicago Sun Times reports.

DePaul University president stepping down

DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider announced Monday that he plans to step down at the...

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Dartmouth Had Eight Valedictorians in the Class of 2016

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Posted by    Monday, June 13, 2016 at 5:00pm

Why not just make everyone a valedictorian? Why limit the school to just eight?

Brian Solomon writes at Dartblog.

Eight Valedictorians in the Class of 2016

Last month, we asked how many top honors the College would award for the Class...

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Former U. Missouri Employee Admits to Embezzling Over $700,000

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Posted by    Monday, June 13, 2016 at 2:00pm

The University of Missouri is having a very bad year and this news certainly doesn’t help.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

Former University of Missouri employee admits embezzling more than $700,000

Carla Rathmann, a former University of Missouri-Columbia employee, pleaded guilty Monday to one count each of mail fraud and credit card fraud in...

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Fraternity Banned From Virginia Tech for 10 Years

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Posted by    Monday, June 13, 2016 at 11:00am

The ban stems from an alleged hazing incident which turned violent.

ABC News reports.

Virginia Tech Fraternity Banned From Campus for 10 Years

Virginia Tech’s first black Greek organization has been banned from campus for 10 years after a pledge says he was blindfolded and beaten over several days earlier this year.

The Roanoke Times...

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