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Barnard College Dedicates Wall in Student Center to Trigger Warnings

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Posted by    Monday, February 22, 2016 at 2:00pm

Trigger warnings are super serious according to some students at Barnard College.

Eric Owens reports at the Daily Caller.

Girls At $62,741-Per-Year College Demand Trigger Warnings About The Real World

A student group at a fancypants women’s college on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has dedicated a whole wall of its student center to an...

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Duke Students Protest ‘Incarceration Themed’ Party And Compare US Prisons to Holocaust

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Posted by    Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:00am

Comparing American prisons to the Holocaust is much more offensive than an incarceration themed party.

The College Fix reports.

Duke protesters irate at ‘incarceration-themed’ party, compare US prison system to the Holocaust

In an age where everything where just about everything is somehow offensive, now even a party where bad guys are the subject...

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Republicans Push Back on Campus Political Correctness

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Posted by    Monday, February 22, 2016 at 8:00am

It’s about time someone stood up for freedom of speech on campus.

The American Interest reports.

GOP Senators Push Back on Campus PC

A growing number of GOP lawmakers are expressing alarm about the Department of Education’s actions, cheered by the campus left, to curtail free speech and due process for college students. The...

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BLM Activists at Mizzou Say Supporting Constitution is White Supremacist

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Posted by    Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 3:30pm

What a poisonous message to send to college students.

Campus Reform reports.

BLM visits Mizzou, says supporting Constitution is white supremacist

During an event at Thursday evening #BlackLivesMatter founders Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi told Mizzou students that the goal of the Constitution was to make an agreement between factions known as states, which...

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Are Colleges Doing Enough About Anti-Semitism On Campus?

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Posted by    Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 12:30pm

The disappointing truth is that colleges aren’t doing nearly enough about this problem.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Shocking anti-Semitic trend on campuses: Are colleges doing enough?

Students at the University of Wisconsin are complaining about a lack of action from administrators following an anti-Semitic incident in one of the school’s residence halls. A student posted the now...

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Black Democrat Student is Called ‘Uncle Tom’ for Defending Free Speech

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Posted by    Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 9:30am

This is racism, straight up.

The College Fix reports.

Black, Democrat student called ‘Uncle Tom’ for defending free speech

Uncle Tom. Ben Carson. Clarence Thomas.

Those are just a few of the names 20-year-old Zach Wood said he has been called by peers this school year as a student at Williams College, an elite New...

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Student Loan Forgiveness Can Lead to a Hefty Tax Bill

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Posted by    Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 3:30pm

You can pay now or pay later but you will pay.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Student loan forgiveness = Big tax bill

Congratulations! You did it. It took four long years of studying and hard work, but the day has finally come and you have earned your degree. Sure, you had to take out...

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Student Protests Follow Milo Yiannopoulos Campus Speaking Tour

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Posted by    Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 12:30pm

Delicate college students can’t handle the truth Milo speaks.

Josh Logue reports at Inside Higher Ed.

The Next Ann Coulter

In a packed auditorium Wednesday, several students at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities interrupted ultradivisive conservative writer and speaker Milo Yiannopoulos with blaring air horns. Outside, more student protesters held signs reading “End...

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Pagans Join Increasingly Diverse Pro-Life Youth Movement

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Posted by    Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 9:30am

Pagans, Christians and atheists united by pro-life issues? Who knew this was possible?

The College Fix reports.

Pagans join increasingly diverse pro-life youth movement led by atheists and feminists

‘I hope that our courage will awaken other fellow pagans to do the right thing’

A movement long dominated by conservative Christian voices is making room...

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Donations Drop at University of Missouri Due to Protests

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 5:00pm

This is where things get serious for university officials. It’s all fun and games until the fundraising dries up.

Fox News St. Louis reports.

Donations drop following unrest at University of Missouri

A University of Missouri official says about $2 million in donations have been lost in fallout from the Columbia campus unrest...

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Washington University Sex Week Includes Kink and Contraceptives

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 2:00pm

If rape culture is such a big problem on campuses, why are there events like this?

Campus Reform reports.

Wash. U. students learn about kink, make crafts from contraceptives at Sex Week

This week is “Sex Week” at Washington University in St. Louis, where students can learn about sex toys, “the politics of pleasure,”...

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Georgia House Passes Campus Carry Despite Democrat Opposition

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 11:00am

Good news for student gun owners out of Georgia.

Breitbart reports.

Campus Carry Passes House Committee In Georgia Amid Democrat Protest

On February 16, Campus Carry legislation passed in Georgia’s House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.

Democrats “protested” the vote, claiming committee chairman Alan Powell called up the legislation for a vote without giving...

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Harvard Law Students Take Over Student Center

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 8:00am

The problem is a hall named after someone who owned slaves.

The Harvard Crimson reported.

Law School Activists Occupy Student Center

Student activists began to occupy a portion of Harvard Law School’s Caspersen Student Center Monday evening in an effort to create a space on campus...

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University of Texas Head Unhappily Complies With Campus Gun Rules

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 5:00pm

The left will continue to fight new campus carry laws. You can tell how much they despise this.

ABC News reported.

University of Texas Head Begrudgingly OKs Campus Gun Rules

Concealed handguns will be allowed in University of Texas classrooms but generally banned from dorms under rules begrudgingly approved Wednesday by the school’s president,...

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Campus Crime Alert at University of Iowa Includes Trigger Warning

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 2:00pm

Don’t the people behind this sort of thing see how silly it looks to average people?

The College Fix reports.

University of Iowa puts trigger warning on campus crime alert

The University of Iowa put a trigger warning on a campus crime alert informing students about a man filming a female student taking a shower.

The alert,...

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U. Montana Football Player to Get $245K Settlement After Being Cleared of Rape

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 11:00am

A jury found this former student innocent of a rape accusation and he’s getting a large settlement.

FOX News reports.

Montana to pay ex-quarterback $245G over rape investigation

Montana will pay a former University of Montana quarterback $245,000 to drop his claims that school officials mishandled a rape investigation against him that drew national...

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Georgetown Prof Unhappy With School’s Show of Respect for Scalia

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 8:00am

The death of Justice Scalia has really brought out the worst in some people.

The Daily Caller reports.

Georgetown Professor Complains After School Shows Respect For Antonin Scalia

Given that Scalia earned his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown, it would seem fitting for the school to honor such an illustrious alumnus after his passing. Georgetown...

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Colleges Ignore Congressional Request to Change Speech Codes

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 5:00pm

As long as academia remains in control of progressives, this will be an issue.

Campus Reform reported.

33 schools ignore Congressional request to change restrictive speech codes

Thirty-three public colleges have elected to ignore a deadline to respond to the House Judiciary Committee’s request to adopt new speech codes on campus.

Bob Goodlatte, who chairs...

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Prager University – A Progressive’s Guide to Political Correctness

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 2:00pm

In a new video from Prager University, George Will offers a step by step guide to political correctness from a progressive point of view.

Watch below.

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Is there a point where the “P.C. Police” are satisfied? Are there ever “enough” rules governing the jokes we tell, the mascots of sp...

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Mizzou Denied Funding Increase Over Racial Protests

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 11:00am

This isn’t social justice, it’s just plain old regular justice.

Red Alert politics reports.

Following racial protests, Missouri legislature denies funding increase for Mizzou

Last week, lawmakers at the statehouse in Missouri denied a budget increase to the University of Missouri over the handling of campus protests that led to the resignation of university president...

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BLM Activists at Cornell Claim Climate Change is Racist

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 8:00am

When you get down to it, is there anything that isn’t racist?

National Review reports.

Black Lives Matter at Cornell: Climate Change Is Racist

The co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement gave a speech at Cornell University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture earlier this month, where they taught students important lessons...

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Mizzou Prof Melissa Click Had Confrontation With Police Last Fall

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Posted by    Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 5:00pm

This woman somehow still has a job at the University of Missouri.

Our sister site, Legal Insurrection reported.

Video: Mizzou Red-Headed Social Justice Warrior Prof. in police confrontation

You remember Mizzou Prof. Melissa Click, don’t you?

She’s the world’s most famous red-headed social warrior professor who gained internet f...

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