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Yale University Hosts its First Pro-Life Conference

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 11:00am

George Saussy of the Yale Daily News has the story. Nothing in his report indicates loud aggressive protests by liberal students. I wonder why.

Yale hosts first pro-life conference

Last weekend Yale hosted Vita et Veritas, the first pro-life conference to be held at the University.

Presented by the student organization, Choose Life at...

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Amherst College Insults Alumni in Warning to Current Students

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 8:00am

We recently reported that some students at Amherst College don’t think there’s enough leftist dialogue on campus but that pales in comparison to this damaging report from Eric Owens at the Daily Caller.

If I was an alum of Amherst College, I’d be closing my checkbook right about now.

Amherst College warns students...

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U. Arizona Prof. Tells Students Fox News Viewers are Ignorant

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 5:00pm

Leave aside the ignorance of this professor’s comments. What business does he have telling his students what news channels to watch?

Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.

Professor Tells Students Fox News Viewers Are Ignorant

People who watch Fox News are less informed than people who get their news from other outlets such...

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Indiana HS Posts Banner Warning Students Not to Have More than Two Children

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 2:00pm

This banner wasn’t hung up by a liberal student group, this was done by staff. Who thought this was appropriate?

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.

Orwellian high school preaches population control to students

“It’s up to you — no more than two.”

This dystopian command was posted by staff inside an Indiana high...

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Prager University Video – God and Suffering

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 11:00am

Check out a new video fro Prager University below, via Jason Fertig of National Review.

Prager U: God and Suffering

“All good people are appalled at the suffering of the innocent . . . [But] unjust suffering is a problem only because we have a sense of what is just and unjust. Where does this sense...

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George Washington U. Student Paper Claims School Misrepresented Admissions Policy

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 8:00am

Jeremy Diamond of the GW Hatchet published an explosive report yesterday about admissions and financial aid policy at the school.

GW misrepresented admissions and financial aid policy for years

The University admitted publicly for the first time Friday that it puts hundreds of undergraduate applicants on its waitlist each year because they cannot...

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GWU Prof’s New Book on Presidential Scandals Focuses Overwhelmingly on…

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Posted by    Monday, October 21, 2013 at 5:00pm

You get only one guess.

Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.

Academic Blame Bush Syndrome

Robert Entman, a news media professor at George Washington University, recently wrote a book entitled, Scandal and Silence: Media Responses to Presidential Misconduct. It was far from that and a more appropriate title would have been The Bush...

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Government Solutions to Student Debt Crisis could make the Problem Worse

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Posted by    Monday, October 21, 2013 at 2:00pm

Phuc Le of the Cornell Daily Sun examines the issue of student loans and government solutions in a new article.

BARELY LEGAL: Government as a Solution to Student Debt Crisis? Not So fast.

While skyrocketing tuition is indeed a problem, finding the right cure requires us to look at the bigger picture. It...

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Do American College Students Want to be Oppressed?

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Posted by    Monday, October 21, 2013 at 11:00am

Stanley Kurtz says yes in a very interesting new article at National Review about climate activism on college campuses.

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll.

The Wannabe Oppressed

What do America’s college students want? They want to be oppressed. More precisely, a surprising number of students at America’s finest colleges and universities wish to appear...

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Megan McArdle – Does Tenure Encourage Free Speech?

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Posted by    Monday, October 21, 2013 at 8:00am

In a new post The FIRE, Nico Perrino featured an interview with Megan McArdle about tenure and free speech.

Does Tenure Really Encourage Free Speech? Megan McArdle Tackles Issues in Higher Ed

Megan McArdle understands the importance of free expression on campus. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, she...

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Student Laments ‘Lack of Leftist Discourse’ at Amherst College

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Posted by    Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 3:30pm

Saying that Amherst College isn’t sufficiently leftist is like complaining that the ocean isn’t as large or wet as it could be.

That hasn’t prevented Meghna Sridhar from taking her argument to the Amherst Student paper.

The Lack of Leftist Discourse

There is a crucial, worrying and endemic lack of leftist discourse at...

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David Petraeus to Join Harvard as Senior Fellow

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Posted by    Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 12:30pm

Hopefully, Harvard will treat Petraeus with more respect than the shameful students at CUNY did.

The College Fix reports.

Petraeus To Join Harvard University

Former general and CIA director David Petraeus is set to become a Harvard Man.

Petraeus has been tapped as a non-resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard...

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Yale Prof Forced to Admit Tea Partiers are Intelligent

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Posted by    Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 9:30am

A professor of law and psychology at Yale set out to discredit the Tea Party but was forced to admit he was wrong.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller has the story.

Prof sets out to prove tea partiers are stupid, admits he was wrong

A Yale University professor conducted a cross-analysis of intelligence...

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8 out of 10 College Professors and Administrators Donate to Democrats

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Posted by    Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 3:30pm

Here’s a bit of news that should surprise absolutely no one. The people who run the classrooms and administrations of American higher education give overwhelmingly to Democrats.

Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.

College Democrats as Professors

We at Accuracy in Academia conducted a study on the political contributions of employees of colleges...

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Bill Ayers Appearance Cancelled Due to Lack of Interest

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Posted by    Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 12:30pm

It turns out not many people are interested in hearing a domestic terrorist brag about his exploits. What a shame.

Nathan Harden, Editor of The College Fix, has the story.

Bill Ayers Bombs: Appearance Cancelled Due to Lack of Interest

Former Weather Underground terrorist and Obama associate Bill Ayers is having trouble with his...

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Debt Downgrade Looms for Brooklyn Law School

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Posted by    Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 9:30am

Did you have a rough week? At least you don’t work in the marketing and development department at Brooklyn Law School.

Paul L. Caron of the TaxProfBlog reports. Hat tip to Instapundit.

Brooklyn Law School Faces Debt Downgrade

Crain’s New York Business:  Brooklyn...

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The 20 Colleges With the Worst Return on Investment

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Posted by    Friday, October 18, 2013 at 8:33pm

The Daily Beast has put together a slideshow of 20 colleges based on what they cost and what graduates can expect to earn.

Here’s their introduction:

The overwhelming majority of soon-to-be college students indicate that they head to college to guarantee higher earnings in the future. To find out which schools are worst...

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Are You Ready for Terrifying Law School Tuition?

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Posted by    Friday, October 18, 2013 at 5:00pm

Tuition for an undergraduate education is already intimidating but according to Staci Zaretsky of Above The Law, tuition for law school is about to take your breath away.

In The Future, Law School Tuition Will Be Absolutely Terrifying

Despite calls for change from the highest of authorities, law school tuition is still too...

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The Rise of Libertarianism on College Campuses

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Posted by    Friday, October 18, 2013 at 2:00pm

The popularity of Libertarianism on college campuses is well known and can be seen in organizations like Students For Liberty and Young Americans for Freedom.

In a new post at Minding the Campus, Duke Cheston examines the issue.

The Rise of the Libertarians

Libertarianism is spreading on our college campuses. An unusually large number...

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Alabama State University Embroiled in Fraud Scandal

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Posted by    Friday, October 18, 2013 at 11:00am

The administration at Alabama State University has some questions to answer.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.

Alabama governor charges black college with major fraud

An audit that found evidence of financial mismanagement at Alabama State University was received poorly by college officials, who stand accused of hampering the investigation and profiting...

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Slate Writer to College Women – Stop Getting Drunk

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Posted by    Friday, October 18, 2013 at 8:00am

I’m not familiar with Emily Yoffe’s work but she makes a valid point in a recent article at Slate. No one is saying that college aged women who drink deserve to be assaulted but this advice makes sense.

College Women: Stop Getting Drunk

In one awful high-profile case after another—the U.S. Naval Academy; ...

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Tufts Prof and Treasury Official Used University Email for Government Business

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Posted by    Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 5:00pm

This isn’t the first time a member of the Obama administration has been caught doing this but you’d think a college professor would know better.

CJ Ciaramella of the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Watchdog: Former Treasury Official Used University Email for Official Business

Another senior Obama administration official used a private email address to...

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