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Wesleyan Activists Want Microaggression Reporting System And Social Justice Workshops

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Posted by    Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 9:30am

Higher education has basically been supplanted by leftist activism.

The College Fix reports.

Wesleyan activists demand microaggression-reporting system, ‘mandatory social justice workshops’

Wesleyan University protesters want the school to create an anonymous system for students to report incidents of “bias, including microaggressions, perpetrated by faculty and staff.”

It’s among five demands that the group handed...

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Harvard Police Investigate Vandalism of Black Professor Portraits

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Posted by    Friday, November 20, 2015 at 5:00pm

This Boston Globe report never once speculates that the portraits may have been vandalized by leftist protesters as a hoax.

Harvard police calling defaced portraits a ‘hate crime’

Harvard University police are treating the discovery of strips of tape placed across photographs of black professors outside...

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Safe Spaces at Claremont McKenna College Exclude White Students

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Posted by    Friday, November 20, 2015 at 2:00pm

White students at Claremont McKenna College are being excluded from segregated safe spaces. How is this not racism?

The Claremont Independent reports.

Safe Spaces Segregate the Claremont Colleges

In the wake of last week’s protests and resignations at Claremont McKenna College (CMC), “safe spaces” for students of marginalized identities are popping up all over...

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Scathing Op-Ed Takes Apart Campus Protests

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Posted by    Friday, November 20, 2015 at 11:00am

Kurt Schlichter of Townhall has some advice for conservatives regarding the protests currently happening on college campuses.

Let’s All Laugh As Liberalism Commits Ritual Suicide On Campus

Please don’t tell the students at University of Missouri and Yale and all the other throbbing pustules of academia to stop their insanity. Instead, encourage and...

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Campus #BlackLivesMatter Protesters Demand Positive Coverage From Media

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Posted by    Friday, November 20, 2015 at 8:00am

If the press won’t paint you in a positive light, just bully them into it. Isn’t that the underlying message here?

Mediaite reports.

Campus #BlackLivesMatter Protest Bans Reporters, Unless They ‘Articulate Their Solidarity’

Reporters were banned from a Smith College sit-in supporting the #BlackLivesMatter protesters at the University of Missouri… unless they “articulate their...

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U. Vermont Holds Retreat for Students Who ‘Self Identify’ as White

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Posted by    Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 5:00pm

The left claims to love science yet they believe things like gender and race are a matter of choice.

Katherine Timpf reports at National Review.

University Hosts ‘Retreat’ for Students Who ‘Self-Identify As White’

The University of Vermont hosted a three-day retreat for students who “self-identify as white”...

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New Poll Numbers Are Bad News For Mizzou Protesters

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Posted by    Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 2:00pm

According to a new poll, the people of Missouri don’t have much sympathy for the Mizzou protesters.

The College Fix reports.

POLL: Missouri public holds negative opinions of Mizzou protests, related happenings

A public opinion poll conducted in the state of Missouri a few days ago shows that, by a fairly wide margin, the...

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Georgetown Changes ‘Racist’ Building Names After Protests

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Posted by    Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 11:00am

The politically correct left just scored another win, this time at Georgetown.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Georgetown caves to student protestors: Changes ‘racist’ building names

Georgetown University has become the next campus to give into protests. The Jesuit university has agreed to change the names of buildings named after presidents who owned and sold slaves...

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National Campus Walkout Effort Fails Miserably

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Posted by    Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 8:00am

Campus protesters are trying to keep the momentum and news coverage of their actions going but an attempt at a national walkout fell flat on its face this week.

Black Wednesday: Day of Campus Walkout Ends in Abject Failure

An attempted follow-up to last week’s chaos on U.S. campuses ended in failure after...

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Student Loan Default Can Lead to Drivers License Suspension in 21 States

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 5:00pm

Just another reason to avoid taking out student loans if you can do it.

Red Alert Politics reports.

In 21 states, student loan default penalty is drivers license suspension

Student loan debt can’t be discharged in bankruptcy, and now it can get people fired.

In October, almost 60 health professionals in Tennessee had their licenses...

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UC San Diego to Bail out Struggling Marxist-Inspired ‘Che Cafe’

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 2:00pm

A business inspired by Marxism is failing? How is that possible?

The College Fix reports.

Public university to bail out struggling Marxist-inspired ‘Che Cafe’

A student-run, Marxist-inspired venue at UC San Diego called the Che Cafe Collective that struggled to pay its rent and could not afford safety upgrades will be bailed out by...

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Former Harvard Prof Blames The West For Paris Terror Attacks

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 11:00am

This is the sort of garbage that passes for analysis in left wing academic circles.

Joel B. Pollak reports at Breitbart.

Former Harvard Islamic Studies Professor Blames West for Paris Attacks

Farid Esack, a former professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard University, blamed the West for the Paris attacks in a post on his...

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Dartmouth Administration Apologizes to Library Protesters

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 8:00am

You read the headline correctly. The administration of Dartmouth has issued an apology, not to the students who were trying to study in the library, but to the protesters who made a scene.

Blake Neff reported at the Daily Caller.

Dartmouth Admin APOLOGIZES To Protesters Who Menaced Students

Dartmouth College has responded to intensely...

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Prager University – Campaign Finance Reform Corrupts

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 3:30pm

In the newest video from Prager University, George Will explains how campaign finance reform is actually a ruse for more corruption in politics.

Watch it all below.

Here’s more information.

What corrupts politics more: Millionaires and billionaires? Or the rules that intend to limit the influence of wealthy donors? George Will, author and Pulitzer...

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Conservative Vanderbilt Professor Targeted for Protest Tells Students to Grow Up

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 2:00pm

We recently covered the story of Vanderbilt professor Carol Swain, who has been targeted for protest because she’s a conservative Christian. She has a message for the students who don’t like her.

The Daily Signal reports.

Vanderbilt Professor Facing Protests Tells Students to ‘Grow Up’

A black conservative professor who found herself the latest...

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University of South Carolina Students Demand a Minor in Social Justice

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 11:00am

USC students are demanding their school offer a minor in Social Justice which makes sense since there are so many high paying jobs in that field.

Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.

South Carolina Students Walk Out, Demand Right To Minor In ‘Social Justice’

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Which is More Important on Campus: Freedom or Political Correctness?

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 8:00am

We’re at the point where colleges have to choose between freedom and political correctness.

As Mitchell Blatt notes at The Federalist, you can’t have both.

Freedom Can’t Coexist With Campus Political Correctness

When Chinese President Xi Jinping talked about strengthening “democracy” in a speech to Australian parliament in 2014, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott...

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Yale Students Present New Demands to School President

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Posted by    Monday, November 16, 2015 at 3:30pm

At what point does someone stand up to these bullies and just tell them to go home?

Dave Huber reports at the College Fix.

Yale students bring new demands to school president, administration

Approximately 200 students dubbing themselves “Next Yale” marched on President Peter Salovey’s house Thursday evening to bring him a “new set”...

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“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in diversity and demanding safe spaces.”

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Posted by    Monday, November 16, 2015 at 2:00pm

So says Mona Charen in a great new column at Real Clear Politics.Her title asks a question with an easy answer.

Snowflakes or Fascists?

There was a much-beloved quote circulated among leftists, often attributed to Sinclair Lewis, that “when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...

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Dartmouth Protesters Allegedly Assaulted Students in School Library

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Posted by    Monday, November 16, 2015 at 11:00am

Where is the administration on this? Are these people going to be expelled or what?

Alex Pfeiffer reports at the Daily Caller.

Dartmouth Protesters Assault Students While Screaming Racial Threats

A group of Black Lives Matter protestors at Dartmouth College led a violent protest Thursday, hurling racial insults at students and pushing them up...

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Students at Columbia Claim Activists Are Pressuring Them to Join Protests

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Posted by    Monday, November 16, 2015 at 8:00am

According to a new report from Aaron Short at the New York Post, students at Columbia are being pressured into joining campus protests.

Columbia student activists: Protest with us, or else!

Either you’re with us or you’re against us.

Columbia student activists are pestering peers to attend campus protests and walk-outs in solidarity with...

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American College Student Killed in Paris Terror Attacks

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Posted by    Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 3:30pm

Keep this young woman and her family in your thoughts and prayers.

The Los Angeles Times reports.

Friends mourn Cal State Long Beach student killed in Paris terror attacks

A Cal State Long Beach student was among those killed in the Paris terrorist attacks, according to the university.

Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old design student from...

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