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MA High School Cancels Rest of Football Season over Discovery of Racist Graffiti

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Posted by    Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 5:00pm

First of all, how do we know this isn’t another racism hoax? Second of all, why is the entire school being punished?

Sterling Beard of National Review reports.

Mass. High School Cancels Rest of Football Season after Racial Graffiti Appears on Player’s House

A high-school football team in Massachusetts has canceled the remainder of...

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Langston University English Prof. Uses Profanity to Attack GOP over Obamacare

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Posted by    Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 2:00pm

The left knows it’s losing the Obamacare battle in the world of ideas. The harsher their rhetoric gets, the more obvious it becomes.

Matthew Boyle of Breitbart has the story. (Language warning)

Professor Tells ‘Evil’ GOP Rep ‘F*ck You’ over Obamacare Criticism

An English professor for the taxpayer-subsidized Langston University, a historically black college...

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VIDEO: College Students Don’t Know Jack About the Gettysburg Address

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Posted by    Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 11:00am

Yesterday, we showed you a video of college students struggling to say whether Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat or a Republican. Now watch them struggle to say anything intelligent about the Gettysburg Address.

At least they’re getting free birth control, right?

Via Eric Owens of The Daily Caller.

American college students are idiots who...

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Georgetown to Host Member of Egypt’s Nazi Party

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Posted by    Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 8:00am

How is Georgetown allowed to continue identifying as a Catholic school? Also worth noting – the keynote at the event is being given by Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democrat.

Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Georgetown University to Host Member of Egypt’s Nazi Party

Georgetown University is scheduled to host an event...

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College Holds Disability Studies Meeting, Doesn’t Provide Access for People with Disabilities

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 6:30pm

Yes, this really happened.

Megan Rogers of Inside Higher Ed reports.

No Access

At a gathering for scholars interested in the intersection of health, humanities and disabilities this weekend, a professor who uses a wheelchair was asked to ring a bell to gain access to the meeting.

William Peace, a visiting professor at Syracuse University,...

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Charter School Offers Real Hope in Economically Depressed Massachusetts City

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 3:30pm

Liberals don’t typically support charter schools. Why? Too much parental choice and not enough union control.

Rob Eno of Red Mass Group reports there are thousands of kids on waiting lists to get into one charter school in Lawrence, MA.

4000+ Lawrence School Children Are Being Left Behind, But There is Hope on...

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Brown Merges Ethnic and American Studies Depts.

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 12:30pm

Question: When is Brown going to create a free speech studies department?

Caroline Kelly of the Brown Daily Herald reports.

Ethnic studies merges with American studies dept

The ethnic studies program has merged with the Department of American Studies this semester in what administrators and faculty members called an effort to provide more structured...

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Brandeis Suspends Partnership with Al-Quds University

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 9:30am

Just wait until you read about the demonstration that ended the relationship. It’s stunning.

Brandeis NOW reports.

Brandeis University suspends its partnership with Al-Quds University effective immediately

Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence announced today that Brandeis has suspended its partnership with Al-Quds University effective immediately. Brandeis will re-evaluate the relationship as future events...

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Video: Ohio State Student Knocks Down Pro-Life Display

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 5:00pm

If the title of this post sounds familiar, it’s because the exact same thing happened at Ohio State back in April.

To this young woman’s credit, at least she agreed to help pick...

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William F. Buckley Award Given to the Cornell Review

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 2:00pm

I believe congratulations are in order to Laurel Conrad, President of the Cornell Review who also is an intern at Legal Insurrection.

Cornell Review wins William F. Buckley award


The Cornell Review is honored to have received the William F. Buckley award this month.

The award is presented by the Collegiate Network to a...

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Lecturer at Eastern Michigan U. Compares Eating Meat to the Holocaust

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 8:00am

Leaving aside the completely inappropriate comparison, there is consensus within the scientific community that meat consumption contributed greatly to the success of early man. Google it.

College Fix Editor, Nathan Harden reports.

Eating Meat ‘Worse than the Holocaust,’ Lecturer Tells Students

In a profanity-laced tirade at Eastern Michigan University, self-described animal rights activist Gary...

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Video: Harvard Students Can’t Name Capital of Canada

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Posted by    Monday, November 18, 2013 at 9:25pm

You’ve heard of Canada, right? It’s that large country directly north of the United States where they play hockey and make ginger ale.

Could you name its capital? Most of these Harvard students couldn’t.

 
 
 

Four Reasons You Might Want to Choose Community College

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Posted by    Monday, November 18, 2013 at 5:00pm

Diana Furchtgott-Roth of Market Watch makes a good case here.

Four reasons to choose community college

Community colleges can boost economic mobility through their transfer and career functions, which are especially valuable to students who have been most adversely affected by recent economic trends and need help in order to enter rewarding careers.

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Binge Drinking Out of Control at UC Berkeley

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Posted by    Monday, November 18, 2013 at 2:00pm

The situation is so dire, paramedics are having a tough time keeping up.

Dan Noyes of ABC San Francisco reports.

Binge drinking at UC Berkeley strains EMS system

Berkeley has a drinking problem. An increasing number of Cal students are getting so drunk, paramedics h...

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Winston-Salem State Quarterback Viciously Beaten by Virginia State Team Members

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Posted by    Monday, November 18, 2013 at 11:00am

It seems some of the guys from Virginia State were out sick the day they taught good sportsmanship.

New York Daily News reports.

Winston-Salem State QB ‘viciously’ beaten by Virginia State players on eve of title game

A bathroom fight Friday among football players from Winston-Salem State and Virginia State during a CIAA championship...

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Rutgers University Students Rally for Bus Driver Forced to Resign for Praying

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Posted by    Monday, November 18, 2013 at 8:00am

Kudos to the Rutgers students who are standing up for this man.

FOX News reports.

Students rally for Rutgers University bus driver who says prayer led to his dismissal

Students at Rutgers University are rallying for the reinstatement of a campus bus driver who says he was pressured to resign after praying for a...

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Texas A&M Law Prof. Wants to Repeal and Replace the Second Amendment

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Posted by    Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 3:30pm

It’s not surprising to hear this kind of talk coming from a college professor but in Texas? Really?

Awr Hawkins of Breitbart reports.

Texas A&M Law Professor: Time ‘to Repeal and Replace Second Amendment’

Speaking in a gun violence symposium at University of Connecticut’s School of Law, Texas A&M law professor Mary Margaret Penrose...

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USC Uses Obamacare Sign to Taunt Stanford at Football Game

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Posted by    Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 12:30pm

So it’s come to this.

At the USC vs. Stanford football game, a USC student sign used support for Obamacare as an insult.

Twitchy has the tweets that tell the story.

https://twitter.com/SenLeeComs/statuses/401726512531243008

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Iowa Prof. Attacked by Co-Ed He’s Been Sleeping With

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Posted by    Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 9:30am

This professor gets a D for dumb decisions. The student sounds like a real winner too.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.

Feisty college student hits professor she was sleeping with, then hits cop

The Daily Caller’s Gold Star Student of the Week is Taylor Ashton Davis, a community college student in Iowa...

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College Professors are Also Losing Health Plans Under Obamacare

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Posted by    Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 3:30pm

Those would be the same college professors who donated overwhelmingly to Democrats.

Steven Hayward of The PowerLine Blog reports.

Obamacare Hits the Campus

The other day I mentioned that things might really get rough for Obama when health insurance cancellation notices hit elite Washington journalists. I neglected to consider what might happen if it...

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Sad State of the Economy: PhD Grads on Welfare

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Posted by    Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 12:30pm

We recently featured a piece about out of work scholars finding life after academia. Now Nathan Harden of The College Fix highlights a related report.

New Trend: PhD Gr...

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Veterans Scarce at Nations Top Colleges

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Posted by    Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 9:30am

America’s top colleges and universities fall all over themselves to recruit foreign students but American veterans? Not so much.

Wick Sloane of Slate reports.

G.I. Joe College

If you can believe it, the number of undergraduate veterans at the nation’s self-proclaimed most highly selective colleges is significantly fewer than we reported in 2011. The...

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