He came to Cornell last year to deliver a speech, and the reception afterwards was held at a fraternity house. More candidates should do this.
Scott Brown Frats It Up. It Goes Exactly As You’d Expect.
New Hampshire GOP candidate Scott Brown ditched the usual campaign trail s...
The real issue here is not that colleges aren’t teaching core requirements like U.S. history or Economics 101. It’s that high schools aren’t teaching these low-level courses. Why should colleges be teaching students what they should have learned in high school, or even middle school?
Douglas Belkin reports for the Wall...
Free markets, folks, free markets.
From Buzzfeed:
This 22-Year-Old Quit Being A Kindergarten Teacher To Twerk Professionally
This is Jessica Vanessa, a former assistant kindergarten teacher from Florida.
The 22-year-old didn’t mind her teaching job, but it was bringing in peanuts compared with what she could make twerking on Vine for her 2 million followers.
“What...
Is Ebola hysteria infecting college admissions? The school in question is Navarro Community College, a two-year institution about 60 miles outside of Dallas.
Dan Mangan reports for NBC News:
Texas College Rejects Nigerian Applicants, Cites Ebola Cases
At least two students from Nigeria who applied to a Texas college were told they wouldn’t be...
Okay, 28 Harvard Law professors are coming out against these new sexual assault policies.
Maybe the current administrators, legislators, and student mobs crafting these new rules and guidelines should listen to what they have to say. I don’t know, they might know a thing or two about due process.
Even Alan Dershowitz, Harvard...
Coddled, spoiled, and sheltered for their entire young lives, too many children and young adults today are the psycho-social products of what some are now referring to as “hyper-parenting.” We already know what it means and how it manifests itself not only in parent-to-child relations but also in broader social contexts...
You read that right. They’re still receiving their pensions after Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation “reforming” the state pension system back in 2012.
Adam Andrzejewski of Forbes has the story:
In Illinois, Substitute Teaching For One Day Reaped Nearly $1 Million in Taxpayer-Funded Pension Money
In 2011, the Chicago Tribune exposed a pair of...
Is this just some liberal progressive fantasy where school children are encouraged to explore the arts rather than math and science, or is there some credible thought and science behind this proposal?
Joanne Lipman writes for the Wall Street Journal:
A Musical Fix for American Schools
American education is in perpetual crisis. Our students...
I don’t think college students and professors have a “moral obligation” to disseminate knowledge via editing Wikipedia as Professor Jemielniak suggests, but the rest of his argument makes sense. Wikipedia is a powerful tool that can only be made better if more and more people use it and edit it.
Dariusz...
Folks, never plagiarize.
Army War College Revokes Sen. John Walsh’s Degree
The U.S. Army War College revoked Democratic Sen. John Walsh’s master’s degree after an investigation completed Friday concluded that he plagiarized a research paper required to graduate.
The college assigned an academic review board to the probe in August after The New York...
“We engage in education, not discrimination.”
Those are the words of the attorney representing California’s public university stem, which has officially “derecognized” 23 Christian student clubs on 19 of its campuses. These clubs belonged to the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and required of members to believe in Jesus and abstain from sex...
I never understood this erotic/sexual assault type of hazing. What’s the joy in joining a group if the only way to get in is to submit oneself to humiliating and depraving acts?
Sean Carlin reports for the Associated Press:
7 charged in high school football hazing case
Seven students were charged with sex crimes...
I wonder what they thought they were going to achieve by trashing the newspapers.
Greg Piper of The CollegeFix has the story:
LATEST REASON TO THROW AWAY STUDENT NEWSPAPERS: GREEK LIFE EMBARRASSMENT
Apparently unfamiliar with Justice Louis Brandeis’s famous quote that the best response to speech you hate is “more speech, not enforced silence,”...
Even at my undergrad business school there is a lot more interest in consulting than in investment banking. The Economist article explains why.
Banks? No, thanks!
“AN INVESTMENT banker was a breed apart, a member of a master race of dealmakers. He possessed vast, almost unimaginable talent and ambition.” So wrote Michael Lewis...
It actually would reduce water usage, so there’s no fighting them on that point. People are free to make up their minds and do with their bodies as they please, so we shouldn’t demonize this type of thing. But, yes, it is funny.
Also, anyone who doesn’t wear sandals, flip flops, or...
Legal and College Insurrection have been closely following Good2Go, most recently with its shut down earlier this week. Now the app’s developers are vowing to relaunch in the spring after modifying the app to make it purely educational not retain any user information.
Greg Piper writes for The CollegeFix:
NEXT VERSION OF GOOD2GO...
The banner read “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal.”
The Phi Delta Theta chapter house was removed by the national organization, not the university.
I think this is a good example of one way to combat the sexual assault problem on campuses across the country.
Texas Tech Frat Loses Charter Following ‘No Means...
It’s an often-debated point in the discussion of the problem of sexual assault on campus. One side argues that we live in a rape culture where rape is actively encouraged in just about every way possible, and the other side argues that while we don’t live in a “rape culture” college...
I think even Joe Biden has a better claim to that title than Eric Holder.
From The CollegeFix:
HARVARD PROFESSOR CALLS ERIC HOLDER ‘MORAL COMPASS’ OF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
Sometimes you’re just left speechless, like when this happens, via the Huffington Post:
Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation announcement in September spurred an outpouring of mixed emotions...
The gross number of students taking and passing AP exams has increased over the past ten years, but overall pass rates are low.
Not to mention that over the past ten years AP exams have become much easier to pass because of all the review books and free online tutorials available.
From U.S....
Evil capitalists: 1, Liberal College Students and Faculty: 0
All over campus, students, faculty, and administration are celebrating “Cornell Engaged,” the project David Einhorn donated $50 million to help fund. Just yesterday I thought I heard them all cursing the capitalists pigs of Wall Street who simply push money back...
Logan had been busted for selling LSD and club-drug favorite Molly, but the campus police offered him a way to keep the school’s administration and his parents out of the know: becoming an informant.
During a surprise visit to see their son, Logan’s father and stepmother found him dead in his dorm...
