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Bisexual Professor Targeted for Disagreeing With Gay Marriage

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Posted by    Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 12:30pm

It doesn’t matter if you’re part of a protected class. All bets are off if you disagree with the hive.

Life Site News reports.

Bisexual prof. raised by lesbians who supports traditional marriage faces loss of tenure

Robert Oscar Lopez isn’t your typical social-conservative professor: he was raised by his mom and her lesbian...

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Crybullies is The Perfect Word to Describe Today’s College Protesters

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Posted by    Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 9:30am

Roger Kimball of the Wall Street Journal has a great new column about what’s been happening on college campuses this week.

The Rise of the College Crybullies

As one left-wing professor wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “After the Vietnam War, a lot of us didn’t just crawl back into our literary...

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U. Colorado Boulder Cancels Solidarity Rally When Black Students Object

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Posted by    Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 3:30pm

It almost seems like some of these campus protesters don’t want unity or solidarity.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

Boulder Class Cancels Solidarity Rally After Black Students Object

Students in a class at the University of Colorado at Boulder gave up a planned rally to support protests...

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Claremont College Paper Denounces Campus Protests in Editorial

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Posted by    Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 12:30pm

It took guts for these students to defy the narrative. Kudos to them.

We Dissent

The student protests that have swept through Claremont McKenna College (CMC) over the past few days—and the ensuing fallout—have made us disappointed in many of those involved.

First, former Dean Mary Spellman. We are sorry that your career had...

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Clarion University Cancels Play Over White Actors

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Posted by    Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 9:30am

We’ve actually come to this. Political correctness is ruining the performing arts, too.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

Clarion University forced to cancel play over actors’ race

Student actors and the stage crew at Clarion University arrived Tuesday evening for one of the final rehearsals before next week’s campus opening of “Jesus in India” only...

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Student Govt. at University in Minnesota Claims Remembering 9/11 Would Violate Safe Space

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 3:30pm

If you thought the news from college campuses this week couldn’t get any worse, you were wrong.

Kasey Carpenter reports at Campus Reform.

UMN student govt: 9/11 remembrance would violate our safe space

On Tuesday, November 10, the Minnesota Student Association (MSA)–the undergraduate student government at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UMN)– rejected a...

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Writer for Ms. Magazine Compares Rape on College Campuses to ISIS

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 2:00pm

With the piece below, we have officially moved into the category of dangerously stupid. How was this garbage allowed to be published?

The writer, Amy Lauricella, clearly needs to do more research.

Institutionalized Rape: It’s Not Just an ISIS Problem

The horrors of the Islamic State are becoming increasingly well known. This month, The...

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Radical Campus Protests Smack of Proto-Fascism

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 11:00am

In a new column at the Fiscal Times, Ed Morrissey notes that what we’re seeing on college campuses right now is reminiscent of a darker time in world history.

Yale, Mizzou and Others—Training a Generation of Proto-Fascists

After a claim that someone had created a fecal swastika on a bathroom wall – another...

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Student Can’t Explain How to Pay for Entitlements College Protesters Are Demanding

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 8:00am

This video is so painful to watch. An organizer of the #MillionStudentMarch is asked by Neil Cavuto of FOX Business who is going to pay for the free college and other perks these students are demanding.

Her whole argument is taking money from the rich and giving it to the government. If...

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Glenn Reynolds: College Students Are Showing We Need to Raise The Voting Age

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 5:00pm

Our friend Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has written a new column for USA Today which is well worth reading.

After Yale, Mizzou, raise the voting age — to 25

In 1971, the United States ratified the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. In retrospect, th...

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University of Missouri Prof Resigns Over Outrage for Failing to Cancel Exam

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 2:00pm

Wait, you mean students at the University of Missouri are expected to take exams when a protest is going on? What an outrage.

Peter Hasson reports at Campus Reform.

Mizzou prof. resigns following outrage over his refusal to cancel exam

Dr. Dale Brigham, considered one of the most beloved professors at the University of...

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Conservative Professor Becomes Target at Vanderbilt University

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 11:00am

Professor Carol Swain is a conservative Christian so she must be a bigot, right?

Trey Sanchez reports at Truth Revolt.

Now at Vanderbilt: Conservative Professor Targeted by Offended Students

The safe spaces of students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee are being threatened by a black conservative professor of law who is outspoken about...

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Viral Video Parodies Extreme Political Correctness on College Campuses

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 8:00am

This short film is making the rounds on the internet for its harsh yet accurate portrayal of the extreme left wing political correctness which has taken hold on so many college campuses.

Watch it all below.

 
 
 

Prager University – Student Debt is a Game of Loans

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 5:00pm

In the latest video from Prager University, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA explains how politicians and universities wash each other’s hands with cash from taxpayers.

Watch it all below.

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University Employee Allegedly Embezzled Over $50,000 From School in Less Than a Year

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 2:00pm

An administrative assistant at Coastal Carolina University may have blown through over $50,000 in less than a year using a school credit card for personal expenses.

Someone’s in big trouble.

WTBW News reports.

Coastal Carolina University employee embezzles more than $50K, report states

A Coastal Carolina University staff member is accused of embezzling more than...

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Majority of Students Surveyed Say Using Offensive Words an Act of Violence

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 12:30pm

As the last few days have demonstrated, this issue is completely out of control.

The College Fix reports.

Using offensive words an ‘act of violence,’ majority of students surveyed say

Using offensive words is an “act of violence,” according to a majority of students recently surveyed in a nationwide poll.

These numbers indicate a growing...

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Marco Rubio Says Student Loans Are Worse Than Indentured Servitude

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

Considering how expensive college has become, it’s difficult to disagree.

Watch Rubio’s recent comments below.

CNS News reports.

Rubio: ‘A Student Loan Is Worse’ Than Indentured Servitude

During an appearance at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said taking out a student loan is worse than...

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Southwest Minnesota State University Wins FIRE’s Speech Code of the Month

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 8:00am

If you go to this school, you better be careful when you’re telling Jokes.

Samantha Harris of the FIRE blog reports.

Speech Code of the Month: Southwest Minnesota State University

FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for November 2015: Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU).

SMSU’s Prohibited Code of Conduct for students bans “cultural...

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UMass Amherst Group Holds ‘Stop White People’ Multicultural Luncheon

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 5:00pm

Nothing racist about the name of this event, huh? One white student tried to attend and got turned away.

The College Fix reports.

White student turned away from ‘Stop White People’ multicultural luncheon

A white student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst who recently attempted to attend a “Stop White People” multicultural campus luncheon was...

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Yale President Apologizes for Failing to Make Minority Students Feel Safe

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 2:00pm

It’s truly astounding that we’ve come to the point where college students think their higher education experience is supposed to happen in a “safe space” and administrators agree.

Paul Mirengoff reports at Powerline.

Yale President Apologizes to Minority Students for Failing to Make Them Feel Safe

In...

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UVA Frat Files $25 Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Rolling Stone

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 11:00am

The fallout from the false rape story continues. I hope these students end up owning Rolling Stone.

The Washington Post reports.

U-Va. fraternity files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone

The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine, which published an...

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University of Colorado Boulder Students Try to Explain Socialism

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Posted by    Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 8:00am

Dan Joseph of MRCTV visited this university during the last GOP debate and asked students to explain socialism and their support for Bernie Sanders.

You are so not ready for this.