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U. Colorado Denver Faculty – Dorms with Anglicized Native American Names are Insensitive

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 5:00pm

One has to wonder if Senator Elizabeth Warren was consulted.

Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times reports.

Easy for you to say: Campus considers dorm names ‘Houusoo’ and ‘Nowoo3’

Unusual campus names are a venerable college tradition — think Harvard’s Wigglesworth Hall or Southern California’s Argue Plaza — but nothing quite compares to those...

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Boston College Religious Education Chair Says Celibacy for Priests is Hazardous

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 2:00pm

This guy became a priest hoping that the church would change its policy on celibacy. That wasn’t a very realistic plan.

Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart reports.

Boston College’s Religious Edu Chair Calls Priestly Celibacy ‘Hazardous’

A laicized priest who is the chairman of Jesuit-led Boston College’s religious education department referred to celibacy in...

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Have You Heard of the National College Advising Corps?

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 11:00am

Here’s how it works. Take college kids who can’t find jobs and put them to work in high schools where they can advise more kids to go to college. Government efficiency at its finest!

Jay Schalin of See Thru Edu reports.

Uncle Sam Wants You—To Go To College

There’s a program that’s run in...

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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Liberty University Obamacare Challenge

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 8:00am

As College Insurrection has reported, this battle has been going on for a while.

FOX News reports.

High court ends Liberty University lawsuit over ObamaCare

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a challenge to ObamaCare brought by a Virginia-based Christian university, ending for now one of...

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How the Higher Ed Bubble is Just Like the Housing Bubble

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Posted by    Monday, December 2, 2013 at 5:00pm

In both situations, a problem was made worse when the federal government tried to fix it.

Michael Busler of the Washington Times writes.

Government loans are causing a debt crisis in higher education

If some government loan programs have been successful, most have caused more problems than they have solved. Recent history shows the...

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Leftist Groups Smear Latino UT Student Over Immigration Stunt

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Posted by    Monday, December 2, 2013 at 2:00pm

According to the left, Latino students aren’t allowed to be against illegal immigration.

The College Fix reports.

Leftist Groups Smear, Threaten Latino UT Student Over Planned Immigration Stunt

The University of Texas college student at the helm of the controversial and eventually cancelled “Catch An Illegal Immigrant” event has come under extreme fire, including...

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Liberation Theology at Notre Dame?

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Posted by    Monday, December 2, 2013 at 11:00am

Liberation theology – the community organizer sect of Christianity.

Michael Patrick Leahy of Breitbart reports.

Creator of Latin American ‘Liberation Theology’ Notre Dame Faculty Member Since 2001

Since the days of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame University has been known as the home of one of the best college football programs in America. Since

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Methodist Affiliated University in Texas Touts Islamic Prayer Room

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Posted by    Monday, December 2, 2013 at 8:00am

I wonder how many Islamic universities have separate prayer facilities for people of other faiths?

Cheryl Carpenter Klimek of BizPac Review reports.

Methodist university touts Islamic prayer room, Sharia-compliant washrooms next?

A recent article promoting an “interfaith” prayer room at Texas Wesleyan University is creating a buzz on conservative blogs.

The Methodist-affiliated university established the prayer...

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Welcome to College, What’s Your Preferred Gender Pronoun?

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Posted by    Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 3:30pm

I wasn’t aware that the English language allowed a single person to be called they.

The Washington Times reports.

‘Genderqueer’ rising: Colleges welcome kids who identify as neither male nor female

The weekly meetings of Mouthing Off!, a group for students at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or...

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U. Georgia Genetics Prof. Says Humans the Result of Chimpanzees Mating with Pigs

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Posted by    Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 12:30pm

Well, I guess that’s… one theory.

Damien Gayle of the Daily Mail UK reports.

‘Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig’: Extraordinary claim made by American geneticist

The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, a leading geneticist has suggested.

The startling claim has...

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English Majors at UCLA Now Required to Take Gender Studies, Other Leftist Junk

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Posted by    Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 9:30am

Why would an English major need to study Shakespeare? It’s much more important to focus on Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial Studies, right?

Investor’s Business Daily reports.

Colleges Substitute Western Greats With Gender Studies

Parents pay a fortune to send their kids to big-name colleges, and they expect strong scholarship in return. More and more,...

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NYU History Prof. Wants to End Presidential Term Limits

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Posted by    Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 3:30pm

Why? So Obama can run for another term, of course. Once again, the Washington Post gives voice to liberal academia.

In this case it’s Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of history and education at NYU.

End presidential term limits

In 1947, Sen. Harley Kilgore (D-W.Va.) condemned a proposed constitutional amendment that would restrict presidents to...

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Public University in Colorado Will Spend Over $40K on Solar Picnic Table Umbrellas

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Posted by    Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 12:30pm

File this story under pointless green initiatives.

Eleanor Skelton of The Scribe reports.

Installation of solar picnic tables slated for spring

On the first day of the spring semester, students may be able to charge their smartphones and laptops at outdoor picnic tables.

Matthew Driftmier, a political science major in his second year of a...

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Journalism Prof. at U. Texas Austin Thinks ‘Thanksgiving is for Sociopaths’

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Posted by    Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 9:30am

Naturally, this professor’s hypothesis was embraced by the radical leftists at Salon.

Rick Moran of the PJ Tatler has the story.

And the Winner of the Most Idiotic Leftist Rant Against Thanksgiving Is…

Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has made a career out of writing anti-Thanksgiving diatribes....

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William and Mary Student – Life in Liberal Academia

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Posted by    Friday, November 29, 2013 at 5:00pm

Elizabeth Marcello is a writer for The College Conservative. In a new post, she describes life as a conservative student on a mostly liberal campus.

Living in Liberal Academia

Going into college, I knew I would be outnumbered by liberal classmates, and I knew that I would be subjected to liberal academia. I...

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What Tax Professors Are Thankful For This Year

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Posted by    Friday, November 29, 2013 at 2:00pm

Everyone has something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving. Even tax professors.

Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog reports.

What Tax Profs Are Thankful For

  • Jennifer Bird-Polan (Kentucky):  “I am incredibly thankful every day to have a job I love surrounded by people who make it fun for me to go to work. I am...
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West Virginia State Student Spends 4 Days in Jail Over Mistaken Identity

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Posted by    Friday, November 29, 2013 at 11:00am

I sense an impending lawsuit.

CBS Baltimore reports.

College Student Spends 4 Days In Jail After Being Mistakenly Arrested

An 18-year-old college student says he is traumatized after Havre de Grace Police mistakenly throw him in jail. They claim he was wanted on a federal warrant.

As...

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California State Literature Class to Read a Book Called ‘The Baby Jesus Butt Plug’

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Posted by    Friday, November 29, 2013 at 8:00am

This news comes just in time for the holiday season, of course. Classy, California State. Real classy.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller has the story.

Professor assigns bizarre novella ‘The Baby Jesus Butt Plug’ to students

California State University comparative literature students will be asked to imagine a world where “the baby jesus...

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Baylor Student – Harry Reid was Wrong to go Nuclear

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Posted by    Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 5:00pm

Danny Huizinga is a writer for the College Conservative. In a new post, he addresses the senate Democrats’ use of the nuclear option.

Why Reid was Wrong Going “Nuclear”

The Senate Democrats last week engaged in the worst kind of politics, the type that says if you don’t agree with us, we don’t...

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U. Kansas Students Ashamed of Report on Drinking and Sexual Assault

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Posted by    Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 2:00pm

Lots of bad choices were made in this situation.

The College Fix reports.

Kansas Students Caught in Druken Orgies: ‘We’re Ashamed’ (VIDEO)

After the Al Jazeera news network exposed the wild drunken antics of students at the University of Kansas, students there now say they are ashamed of their words and behavior.

The University...

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Yale Prof. is Taken to Jail Then Found Dead

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Posted by    Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 11:00am

This is very sad news for the family of Professor Samuel See, who was apparently a young man.

John Christoffersen of MyFoxNY has the story.

Yale professor dies after taken to jail

A Yale University professor arrested on charges of fighting police officers investigating a domestic-dispute complaint was taken to a jail and died...

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Vassar College Student Stages Hate Crime Hoax

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Posted by    Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:00am

Here’s the part of the story that probably won’t surprise College Insurrection readers. The student who staged the hoax is part of the school’s so called Bias Incident Response Team.

Robby Soave of the Daily Caller has the exclusive report.

EXCLUSIVE: Shocking discovery in hoax bias incident...

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