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Malia Obama to Attend Harvard in 2017

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Posted by    Monday, May 2, 2016 at 5:00pm

President Obama’s daughter Malia is apparently taking a year off before attending Harvard in 2017.

The New York Times reported.

Malia Obama to Attend Harvard, but Not Until 2017

Malia Obama, the older daughter of President Obama, plans to attend Harvard University beginning in the fall of 2017, the White House announced on Sunday,...

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University of Louisville to Remove Confederate Statue

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Posted by    Monday, May 2, 2016 at 2:00pm

The erasure of history from college campuses continues.

FOX News reports.

Kentucky Confederate monument to be removed after 120 years

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Confederate monument will be removed from a spot near the University of Louisville campus where it has stood since 1895.

The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for...

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Minority Students at U. Kansas Want Their Own Student Government

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Posted by    Monday, May 2, 2016 at 11:00am

Minority students at the University of Kansas want a separate student government of their own. Isn’t that segregation?

The Associated Press reports.

Kansas Minority Students Seek Parallel University Government

Minority students at the University of Kansas, frustrated by what they see as a lack of attention to issues they care about, are pushing for...

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University Cancels Video Game Panel For Including Too Many Men

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Posted by    Monday, May 2, 2016 at 8:00am

Do any events on college campuses ever get cancelled for including too many women?

Reason reports.

USC Cancelled an Awesome Video Game Panel for Including Too Many Men

The University of Southern California cancelled its planned “Legends of the Games” event after the lone female participant signaled that she wouldn’t be able to attend....

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Hillary Supporting Harvard Student Says He’s Treated Like a Republican

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Posted by    Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 3:30pm

This letter to the New York Times from a Harvard student who supports Hillary will surprise you.

An Outlier at Harvard: ‘I’m a Hillary Supporter’

To the Editor:

Re “Daring to Back Clinton” (Metropolitan section, April 17), about the isolation felt by Columbia students who support Hillary Clinton:

At the age of 12, I canvassed...

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Women Are More Likely Than Men to Get a Bachelor’s Degree

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Posted by    Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 12:30pm

We always hear about the gender pay gap that favors men. What about the degree gap which favors women?

The Washington Free Beacon reports.

Women 31% More Likely to Receive Bachelor’s Degree Than Men

Women are 31 percent more likely to have earned a college degree by the time they turn 29 years of...

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Michael Bloomberg Denounces Safe Spaces in Commencement Speech

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Posted by    Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 9:30am

Who would have thought that even a fan of the nanny state like Michael Bloomberg doesn’t like safe spaces?

Mediaite reports.

Michael Bloomberg Denounces ‘Safe Spaces’ in University Commencement Speech

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered the commencement address today to graduating University of Michigan students, and he took the opportunity to tear...

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Conservative Group Denied Recognition at Drake University

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Posted by    Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 3:30pm

Have you noticed that this never seems to happen to liberal groups?

The College Fix reports.

Conservative group called ‘hateful,’ denied official recognition at Drake University

A budding conservative-leaning and pro-free market student group at Drake University called Turning Point USA was recently denied official recognition by the student government over concerns its messages are...

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College Disinvites Speaker for Disrespecting Obama

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Posted by    Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 12:30pm

This happened across the pond but you can imagine it happening here, can’t you?

Reason reports.

Speaker Disinvited from College Event after ‘Disrespecting’ Obama

It is no longer okay for politicians to be disrespectful toward President Obama—if they wish to speak on campuses, that is.

Students at King’s College in London no-platformed Boris Johnson, the...

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Campus Rape Statistics Continue to be Skewed

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Posted by    Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 9:30am

The statistics are usually off because people are trying to advance the idea of rape culture.

Minding the Campus reports.

Campus Surveys Inflate Rape Statistics

Calls for additional or new “campus climate surveys” have been a regular feature the post-2011 war on campus due process. The White House has produced a template that colleges...

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Colleges Suffering New Outbreaks of Mumps

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Posted by    Friday, April 29, 2016 at 5:00pm

Unfortunately, colleges are sometimes hotbeds for spreading illnesses.

ABC News reports.

Harvard Mumps Outbreak Jumps to 41; Second Outbreak Reported at Connecticut University

At least 41 people at Harvard University have been diagnosed with the mumps, according to university officials. The news comes as a second outbreak has been reported at Sacred Heart University...

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Black Students at Salisbury University Caught in Racism Hoax

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Posted by    Friday, April 29, 2016 at 2:00pm

Don’t students who do stuff like this realize they discredit real instances of racism?

The College Fix reports.

Fake hate: Black students behind racist drawing at Salisbury University library

Officials at Salisbury University (Maryland) have identified several black students responsible for a racist image discovered at the school’s Blackwell Library earlier this month, which featured...

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Boston College Students Think Core Curriculum is Too Eurocentric

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Posted by    Friday, April 29, 2016 at 11:00am

As Campus Reform points out, this charge is totally bogus.

BC students demand change to ‘Eurocentric’ core curriculum

Students at Boston College (BC) are petitioning administrators to change the school’s core history requirement because it is too “Eurocentric.”

“After careful analysis of the core curriculum at Boston College, we, the students, have come to...

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Free College Will be Worse Than What We Have Now

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Posted by    Friday, April 29, 2016 at 8:00am

Nothing is free. Smart people know this and also know making college free is a bad idea.

From Real Clear Politics.

Is College Too Pricey? Wait Till It’s Free

As he panders for the youth vote, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders promises free tuition at public colleges and universities because, he says, “a college...

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Scripps College ‘Unofficial Survival Guide’ Justifies Hatred of White People

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Posted by    Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 5:00pm

It’s funny that the social justice warrior crowd is seemingly OK with this.

Campus Reform reports.

Scripps ‘Unofficial Survival Guide’ claims ‘hatred of white people’ is ‘legitimate response to oppression’

Last summer, two Scripps College students spent approximately 500 hours creating a 217-page “ Unofficial Scripps Survival Guide” intended...

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Campus Free Speech Threatened by New DOJ Letter

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Posted by    Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 2:00pm

The Obama administration doesn’t have a great record when it comes to supporting free speech on campus.

The FIRE blog reports.

New DOJ Letter Threatens Campus Speech, Warns Former OCR Attorney

Free speech on college campuses was dealt a significant blow last week when the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a findings letter against...

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Believing in Two Genders Now a ‘Hate Crime’ Under Investigation at Marymount University

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Posted by    Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 11:00am

Stating reality as it has been known for thousands of years is now a hate crime?

The College Fix reports.

Believing in two genders is a ‘hate crime’ under police investigation at Catholic college

‘You can have your opinion’ as long as it doesn’t ‘deny my existence’

It’s uncommon at Jesuit universities these days for...

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College Student Sues School After Suspension for Consensual Sex

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Posted by    Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 8:00am

We’re going to see more of this in the future as students fight for their future.

The FOX News Insider reports.

‘His Life Was Derailed’: College Student Sues After Suspension for Consensual Sex

A Colorado college student spoke out exclusively on The Kelly File tonight, saying that he was suspended from Colorado State University-Pueblo...

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Poll Shows Majority of Millennials Reject Capitalism

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 5:00pm

This goes a long way to explaining the support enjoyed by Bernie Sanders on college campuses.

The Washington Post reports.

A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows

In an apparent rejection of the basic principles of the U.S. economy, a new poll shows that most young people do not support capitalism.

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Steven Crowder Goes Off On Social Justice Warriors at UMass

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 2:00pm

Steven Crowder, Milo Yiannopoulos and Christina Hoff Sommers made an appearance at the University of Massachusetts this week and before they could even begin their discussion, leftist critics in the audience tried to shout them down.

Crowder shut them down in an epic rant you can watch below.

Strong language warning.

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Government Now Funding Search for Microaggressions

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 11:00am

What a ridiculous waste of time and money. Don’t we have more important issues to deal with?

Minding The Campus reports.

Feds Fund Search for Microaggressions

Earlier this month, The Washington Free Beacon, the conservative online newspaper, reported that the National Science Foundation was spending over half a million federal dollars “to videotape male...

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White House Wants to Spend $100 Million on ‘Free’ Community College

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 8:00am

Free community college only costs $100 million dollars? What a great deal.

Inside Higher Ed reports.

White House Push on Free Community College

Local and state-based free community college programs have grown rapidly across the country in the past year since President...

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