In a new video for Prager University, history professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton explains how America’s early settlements tried social communism but decided against it due to starvation.
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Was America once socialist? Surprisingly, yes. The early settlers who arrived at Plymouth and Jamestown in the early...
It’s interesting that you rarely hear about incidents like this in the mainstream media.
Campus Reform reports.
UPDATE: Jewish frat covered in anti-Semitic graffiti at Brown University
UPDATE: The Brown Daily Herald reports that the graffiti in Marcy House said, “Gay will die,” and “Holocaust 2.0.”
Both Beta Rho Pi and Zeta Delta Xi released...
Early reports offer no possible motivation for the students’ actions but we’ll be following this story.
FOX 5 in DC reports.
3 arrested after bomb-making materials found in George Mason University dorm room
Three students have been arrested after a drug and explosives investigation on the campus of George Mason University.
Officials say there is...
This professor used a bad word in class as part of a lesson which sparked an investigation. Now it’s over and she’s keeping her job.
FOX News reports.
University of Kansas professor keeps job after using racial slur in class
A four-month investigation into a University of Kansas professor who used a racial slur...
This is just further proof that the left is never satisfied. Something will always be wrong.
The Daily Caller reports.
University Of New Mexico Seal Denounced As Racist For Not Having Indians On It
Student activists at the University of New Mexico (UNM) are demanding that the school abolish...
Are these students really so fragile that they need 24 hour counseling?
The College Fix reports.
American University candidates promise snowflakes 24-hour counseling, more ‘inclusion’
It’s election season at American University, and candidates for student body president are telling students exactly what they want to hear: Your lives are hard, and we care.
The Eagle reports...
Wow. Talk about strict rules of conduct.
The Jerusalem Post reports.
Palestinian university expels student for hugging fiancé
In the first case of its kind, a Palestinian university on Sunday expelled a student who hugged his fiancé on campus.
The Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie in Tulkarem accused the student of “immodest conduct” during a...
Oops. Somebody in the school’s admissions department messed up.
Time reports.
University Mistakenly Congratulates Students Who Never Applied
About 4,000 students living in the Virginia area recently received an email from the University of California at Santa Cruz congratulating them on admission—an impressive accomplishment, no doubt, considering they never applied to the school.
A regional...
Too many people at Yale are having a crisis.
The New Haven Register reports.
Yale grad students say mental health care in ‘crisis’, university adds therapists
Alyssa Battistoni, a fourth-year doctoral student in political science at Yale University, felt depressed two years ago and went to Yale Health to seek out a therapist.
While mental...
Here’s a glimpse at something that’s happening on campuses around the country.
The Cornell Review reports.
Social Justice in the Classroom at Cornell
There is no way to deny that each and every day I wake up on this beautiful campus, I’m proud to be a Cornellian. The opportunities that we all have here...
Why? Because she supports Israel. These students are so pathetic.
The Blaze reports.
Brown University Students Protest Black Transgender Speaker — but for a Completely Unrelated Reason
A speech by an LGBTQ activist at Brown University was cancelled after students protested the event because it w...
Another college becomes part of the anti-free speech movement.
The College Fix reported.
Williams College president doubles down on banning opinions he doesn’t like from campus
The president of Williams College isn’t very good at debating.
It explains his half-assed reply to the head of the National Association of Scholars, who questioned Adam Falk’s decision to ...
Students have to be very careful about what they say at this school.
The FIRE blog reports.
Speech Code of the Month: Grinnell College
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for March 2016: Grinnell College in Iowa.
FIRE recently downgraded Grinnell College to our poorest, “red light” speech code rating for a “bias-motivated...
Everyone is going to pay a little more at some schools in Minnesota so a few can enjoy Vegan food.
ABC 5 reports.
Demand for Vegan, Allergen-Free Foods on College Campuses Drives Meal Price Increases
Some universities in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system will see price incre...
The University of Missouri has to do something, their enrollment is tanking.
FOX News in St. Louis reports.
University of Missouri approves of outside review of system
The University of Missouri approves of a proposed outside review of the system’s operations and rules.
Vice President for University Relations Steve Knorr said the university supported the...
Items include a $500,000 diversity budget. That’s realistic, huh?
Robby Soave writes at the Daily Beast.
Freedom of Thought Is on Life Support at the University of Arizona
Are student-protesters trying to bankrupt their universities? If activists at the University of Arizona get everything they want—including a whopping $500,000 diversity budget—the administration would have...
We’ve come to this. Students demanding less freedom.
The Red and Black reports.
Backpackin’ heat: University community takes stand against campus carry
Professors use trigger warnings to alert students of explicit or sensitive materials contained in syllabi, powerpoint slides and assigned textbooks.
“And now I’m afraid I’m going to need literal trigger warnings when I’m...
This guy is going to be put away for a long time.
The Daily Caller reports.
Cincy Professor Admits To FBI He Traded Child Porn ‘Every Day’ For Years
A professor at the University of Cincinnati (UC) is looking at a stiff prison term after FBI agents arrested him and he told them he’d...
This is not the sort of award decent, fair minded people would want to get.
The College Fix reports.
Dubious distinction: California colleges tally most incidents of campus antisemitism
Something to be “proud” of: California universities have the notable feature of experiencing the most episodes of antisemitism on American campuses for the calendar...
In the future, everyone will be a victim for 15 minutes.
Colleen Flaherty reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Climate Concerns Among LGBT Physicists
Physics is often characterized as having a tough climate for women, of whom there are still relatively few working in the field (even compared to the other sciences). But the American...
The game was also accused of promoting fat-shaming.
Campus Reform reported.
UC Davis students ‘heavily traumatized’ by ‘anti-Asian,’ ‘fat-shaming’ sumo wrestler game
The student government at the University of California-Davis (UC Davis) quickly saved face after its constituents scorned the governing body for renting out a pair of sumo suits for an annual campus...
This doesn’t sound Orwellian at all, does it?
The Gazette reports.
Iowa State University building equality, diversity team
Iowa State University will debut a new equal opportunity director next month, marking its second administrative hire under the diversity and inclusion umbrella since fall.
Margo Foreman, associate director of the Office of Equal Opportunity at Indiana...
