In 2013, New York voters approved a law allowing multiple casino developments throughout upstate New York in order to bring more jobs to the financially-depressed region. Now it seems the casino developers are aiming to build their mega gambling and entertainment complexes near college campuses, where they know there are large,...
When I think of heroes, I think of people who have achieved great feats. Women who get abortions don’t qualify in the slightest, regardless of your opinion on the legality and morality of abortion.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn reports for Campus Reform:
University celebrates ‘abortion heroes,’ commends illegal abortions
The University of North Carolina – Wilmington...
The magazine’s most recent cover story is about the near-impossibility of firing public school teachers.
From the Washington Post:
A Time magazine cover enrages teachers — again
Time magazine has done it again: It published a cover that has enraged teachers around the country, triggering protesting e-mails...
Black conservative pundit Sonnie Johnson thinks so. It’s something I’ve always thought, too. Of course, not all of rap music’s content jives with conservative values, like the misogyny and glorification of drugs. However, rap is certainly pro-capitalist, individualist, and skeptical of government.
Taylor Walters writes for Campus Reform:
Rap is aligned with conservative...
Posters, chants, and bra burning won’t stop rapists, but a bullet will.
Chelsea Gruenwald writes for The College Conservative:
I Carry, Therefore I am Female
Thirty years ago, one gun shop’s customers were 90% male, but today they report an even split between men and women. This increase in female gun use and interest...
The 22-year old D.C.-area substitute teacher performed oral sex on a 17-year old student on her first day at work. Her first day.
D.C. Substitute Teacher Arrested After Performing Oral Sex On Student
D.C. substitute teacher Symone Greene, 22, is charged with felony, first-degree...
I think Reagan did more for everyone than Obama has.
Maggie Lit of Campus Reform reports.
Black, Democrat prof: Reagan did more to help black education than Obama
A black, Democratic professor blames President Obama for the disenfranchisement of historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), and credits Ronald Reagan for taking a stand for...
Thoughts and prayers.
Virginia remains identified as those of missing college student
Human remains found in Virginia were identified on Friday as those of missing university student Hannah Graham, and prosecutors are focusing on more charges against the suspect in her disappearance, authorities said.
Graham, a University of Virginia sophomore, was last seen on...
When will the censors begin attacking DormChat?
Anthony Ha reports for TechCrunch:
College Messaging App DormChat Takes On Yik Yak With Backing From ff Venture Capital
DormChat aims to give people a new way to message each other that’s location-based and anonymity-optional — and it’s starting with college students.
The iOS app was released earlier...
Nice going, psuedo-Walter White.
Teacher’s aide arrested for bringing meth pipe and brass knuckles onto campus
An employee in the South San Independent School District lands behind bars.
Police say 32-year-old Jacob Contreras brought brass knuckles and a meth pipe onto an elementary school campus.
He worked at Frank Madla Elementary School for one year....
This is huge, folks. UT Longhorns athletes will each earn about $10,000, half of which goes to covering expenses and half of which is compensation of using the athlete’s image. The article doesn’t specify is the payment is yearly or just a one-time lump sum.
From Dallas News:
Texas athletic director: With new...
What is going on with the Wendy Davis campaign? This is the definition of political implosion.
Alex Griswold reports for the Daily Caller:
Wendy Davis Tweets A Pic Of ‘Supporters…’ Turns Out They’re College Republicans
Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has landed herself in yet another embarrassing situation when...
Remember this from the summer? A Princeton professor was accused by a homeowner of stealing his lawn signs. The professor, John Mulvey, said he was merely picking up debris.
A judge sentenced Mulvey to 120 hours of community service. What does he have to do? Teach finance or computer science. Not bad...
Will the 1,000 show up to block Will from entering the campus? That would be something to watch.
Tyler Kingkade writes for Huffpo:
Nearly 1,000 Students, Faculty Demand Miami University Cancel George Will Speech
Miami University of Ohio has no plans to cancel a speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will, despite protests over...
More importantly, shouldn’t there be a class on how to get a date in the first place?
Maggie Lit reports for Campus Reform:
Public university offers ‘breakup training’
A SUNY school is teaching students how to properly end a relationship as part of an initiative begun this year in response to increased Title IX...
According to the leftists at Slate, going to college should make you rich. Anything that happens after–no matter.
From the article:
Even When They Go to College, the Poor Sometimes Stay Poor
Over the weekend, the Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien published this killer graph that captures just how unequal the economic playing field is...
Wendy Davis, here’s looking at you.
Haley Waring writes for the College Conservative:
Negative Ads: How Far is Too Far?
The Internet and news circuits have been a buzz the last few days over a Texas gubernatorial campaign ad.. The ad, paid for by the Wendy Davis Campaign, highlights the fact that her opponent,...
I’ll skip down to where Joe Patrice of Above the Law criticizes HuffPo’s listicle item by item.
Another Stupid Defense Of Law School From HuffPo
1. Know Your Rights: Or pay attention in your high school government class and you’ll know just as much as a law student about your rights. But th...
So desperate, they’re resorting to pseudo bio-warfare.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn reports for Campus Reform:
‘Progressive Socialist’ claims he has Ebola, licks conservatives at Clinton speech
self-described progressive socialist in Michigan attacked a group of conservative students outside of a Hillary Clinton speaking engagement by attempting to lick them while yelling that he has Ebola.
Clinton spoke...
According to eyewitnesses, the ruckus began when drunk students began throwing things–apparently, anything they could drunkenly get their hands on. Police showed up in riot gear and used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Arrests, injuries reported in riot at New Hampshire college during autumn festival
Police in southwestern New Hampshire used tear...
I just really liked the headline from this Washington Post article.
By Mark Berman:
Syracuse University bravely saves students from exposure to journalism
Michel du Cille, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, was recently in Liberia to cover the Ebola outbreak. He is back in the United States now, and he was supposed to go to...
The Stanford Review is that campus’s conservative publication. They have excellent, well-researched and well-written editorials.
By Harry Elliot:
States, Stockholm Syndrome, and Pseudo-Patriotism
A government has the power, in most cases, to enslave us at a moment’s notice for a war we may not support, and to silence anybody who speaks ill of its...
