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Purdue Staffer Who Said Pro-Life Students Should be Raped Resigns

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Posted by    Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 2:00pm

This is a follow-up to a story we brought you last week. At least this guy did the right thing by stepping down.

JConline reports.

Purdue staffer quits amid storm over rape comments

With Purdue University officials demanding an apology and hours be...

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Wife of Bernie Sanders Left Burlington College in Debt

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Posted by    Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 11:00am

Bernie Sanders’ wife led Burlington College for seven years and according to this report from Politico, she didn’t do a very good job.

What happened at Sanders U.

When Jane Sanders was in charge of a small private college in Vermont for seven years, it sank deep into debt while trying to expand...

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Students Told to Report ‘Incidents of Discomfort’ to Campus Police

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Posted by    Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 8:00am

What do the students do next, retreat to a safe space?

The College Fix reports.

University tells students to report ‘incidents of discomfort’ to campus police

The University of Portland has launched a “Speak Up” webpage that encourages students to report “incidents of discomfort” to its Public Safety department.

“We ask members of our community...

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Video Project Featuring Actors With Guns Shuts Down Campus at Arkansas State

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Posted by    Monday, February 15, 2016 at 5:00pm

The video makers apparently didn’t tell enough people about the project.

FOX News reported.

Student video project triggers university lockdown after guns spotted

Arkansas State University students working on a video project sparked reports of armed men near the student union on Sunday, leading to a lockdown of about an hour at ASU’s...

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Summer Reading Lists Pave Way for Social Justice Agenda

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Posted by    Monday, February 15, 2016 at 2:00pm

You have to get students ready for their progressive college experience.

Breitbart reports.

Shallow Pre-College Reading Assignments Pave Way for Social Justice Agenda

More than 350 colleges assigned a book to their freshmen last summer. That is, each college picked one book as a common reading. That book was sent on a large mission....

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Holy Cross Launches Digital Transgender Archive

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Posted by    Monday, February 15, 2016 at 11:00am

Gender Studies majors across the country would undoubtedly approve.

The Boston Globe reports.

Digital transgender archive launches at Holy Cross

A digital transgender archive was launched Thursday at the College of The Holy Cross, a compendium of historic documents, oral-history transcripts, photographs, and newsletters from years past. Organizers believe it is the first time...

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Do College Admissions Need an Overhaul?

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Posted by    Monday, February 15, 2016 at 8:00am

Jonathan Cole of the Atlantic suggests the current system ends up overlooking some qualified students.

Why Elite-College Admissions Need an Overhaul

March madness is almost here. No, I’m not referring to the college-basketball playoffs; I’m alluding to the anxious waiting of young people and their families of word about their fate from the...

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University of Missouri Considers Legality of Union for Grad Students

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Posted by    Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 3:30pm

Why do grad students need to organize a union other than to flex political muscle?

The Kansas City Star reports.

University of Missouri considering legality of student union

The University of Missouri is looking into whether a graduate student employee union at the university would be legal, interim President Mike Middleton said.

“We believe that...

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College Students Taught America Created ISIS

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Posted by    Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 12:30pm

More left-wing indoctrination in higher education.

The College Fix reports.

College students taught America created ISIS, war on terror worse than 9/11

ISIS was borne out of President George Bush’s decision to send troops to the Middle East after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and in actuality the war on terror has caused...

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Record Number of Students Plan to Attend Protests in College

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Posted by    Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 9:30am

This is exactly what the left wants. They want a return to the 1960’s.

Newsweek reports.

When It Comes To Protests, It’s Like The 1960’s For College Freshmen

A new survey report shows that 8.5 percent of current college freshmen expect to participate in a student protest while in college. That figure is up...

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College Student Threatened Over Trump Sticker on Her Laptop

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Posted by    Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 3:30pm

Republican college students often face this kind of hatred on campus.

The Root reports.

NYC University Student Faces Backlash After Threatening Classmate Over Trump Sticker on Social Media: Report

A student at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., sparked outrage online after threatening to smash a fellow student’s computer because of a Donald Trump...

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Eastern Illinois University Lays Off 200 Workers

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Posted by    Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 12:30pm

The higher ed bubble cometh. This school is finding that out now.

CNN reports.

Illinois university forced to lay off 200 workers

The cuts impact 13% of the school’s employees. Support staff — like those who work in the food, housing, and building maintenance departments — were the hardest hit.

Professors escaped the cuts, but...

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Liberal Intolerance on College Campuses is Finally Getting Noticed

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Posted by    Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 9:30am

Even the Washington Post is writing about it now.

Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college campuses

Okay, maybe conservatives are right to freak out about illiberal lefty militancy on college campuses.

Today’s students are indeed both more left wing and more openly hostile to free speech than earlier generations of collegians.

Don’t...

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Harvard Faculty Donations go Overwhelmingly to Hillary Clinton

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Posted by    Friday, February 12, 2016 at 5:00pm

The Harvard faculty is not feeling the Bern.

The College Fix reports.

Hillary Clinton gets 91% of Harvard faculty donations

Ninety-one percent.

That’s the percentage of campaign donations Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has received from Harvard University’s faculty.

All donations from Arts & Sciences faculty, as well as those from the Kennedy School of Government,...

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College Student’s Conservative Column Leads to Stabbing Threat

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Posted by    Friday, February 12, 2016 at 2:00pm

As we’ve pointed out many times before, it takes real guts to be a conservative college student.

National Review has the story.

Student’s Conservative Op-Ed Draws Stabbing Threat

A student at the University of California–Santa Barbara had to deal with someone threatening to stab him because he dared to write an op-ed with a...

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Purdue Staffer Allegedly Called for the Rape of Pro-Life Students

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Posted by    Friday, February 12, 2016 at 11:00am

The incident is currently under investigation.

Life News reports.

Pro-Abortion University Staffer Calls for Raping Pro-Life College Students

A Purdue University staff member is being investigated after he allegedly threatened to rape pro-life women during an online debate about the campus pro-life club’s recent campaign.

The Purdue Students for Life group has been facing a...

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Harvard Med Students Want More Diversity But Not Asians

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Posted by    Friday, February 12, 2016 at 8:00am

This seems rather “problematic” as the young people say these days.

Campus Reform reports.

Harvard med students demand diversity, but no more Asians please

Harvard Medical School (HMS) students styling themselves the “Racial Justice Coalition” are demanding that their next Dean be “committed to social justice both inside...

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Small College in Minnesota Angers Students by Cutting Foreign Language Majors

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Posted by    Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 5:00pm

The school needed to make some cuts and the students aren’t happy.

Eric Owens reports at the Daily Caller.

HASTA LA VISTA, BABY: Minnesota College Infuriates Students By Cutting Foreign Language Majors

The decision at a small, private liberal arts college in Minnesota to cut costs by eliminating a handful of majors including German,...

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Students Who Took Over Dartmouth Library Face No Discipline

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Posted by    Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 2:00pm

Everyone put on your shocked face.

Dartblog reports.

No Peace and No Justice

Word from the inside says that no students are currently under investigation or facing College discipline for the BLM invasion of Baker Library on November 12:

You will recall that we published two eye-witness reports of the ugly events in the library...

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Princeton ‘Opens Dialogue’ on Racism and Woodrow Wilson

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

Racist progressive Woodrow Wilson attended Princeton and ultimately served as the school’s president.

The Associated Press reports.

Princeton Opens Dialogue on Alumnus Woodrow Wilson, Racism

How do you apply 21st-century sensibilities to the legacy of a man raised in the 19th-century South who achieved greatness in the early 20th century at an institution that...

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Progressive Rutgers Students Protest Milo Yiannopoulos by Smearing Themselves With Fake Blood

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Posted by    Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 8:00am

In the video below, the protest starts right after Yiannopoulos says some students can’t handle new ideas. The protesters actually prove his point perfectly.

Campus Reform has more.

Rutgers students smear themselves with fake blood to protest ‘Most Dangerous Faggot’

Protesters were out in full force Tuesday night during Milo Yiannopoulis’ “Most Dangerous Faggot...

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Largest For-Profit College in America Sold to Group Led by Friend of Obama

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 5:00pm

This makes no sense. Don’t liberals despise for-profit education?

The Daily Caller reports.

America’s Largest For-Profit College Sold To Group Led By Obama’s ‘Best Friend’

Apollo Education Group, the company that owns the large but struggling University of Phoenix, is being sold to private inves...

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