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New study shows vast majority of college presidents don’t want guns on campus

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Posted by    Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 3:30pm

While a new study shows that huge majority of America’s college presidents oppose allowing guns on campuses, it seems to ignore that many campus deaths are related to other causes:  Stabbing, bow and arrows, and “marijuana intoxication”, to name but a few.

Furthermore, more and more students are appreciating the value of...

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Six universities get $9 million in EPA funding to study “cleaner cookstove technology”

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Posted by    Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 12:30pm

More American tax dollars are going up in smoke, as the combination of “global warming concerns” and “air quality issues” give the government an excuse to spend millions on cookstove research.

As an extra bonus: The air quality issues pertain to that in other countries.

Researchers at universities in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois...

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Stanford condemns old, frat-based emails from graduate who is now Snapchat CEO

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Posted by    Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 9:30am

Stanford University shows that the trend of campus fraternity-shaming continues unabated.

The school is boldly condemning emails sent in 2009 and 2010 from Snapchat Inc. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel, who was then a student at the institution.

Shockingly, the emails focused on sex and alcohol; the content is tied to “hate language,”...

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Wesleyan U. Student Mocks Left’s Useless “Hashtag Cavalry”

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 6:30pm

Over a week ago, Elliot Rodger went on a spree killing that killed six University of California – Santa Barbara students and shocked the nation.

Subsequently, progressives laid the blame on a variety of causes…except for...

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Tennessee College Cutting Staff in Wake of Declining Enrollments

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 3:30pm

The Higher Education Bubble continues to burst.

This time, a Tennessee college is slashing positions in the wake of declining enrollments.

Bryan College in Tennessee is eliminating 20 full-time employee positions as it faces enrollment decline, The Times Free Press reported.

School President Stephen Livesay announced Friday that 20 of 173 full-time positions will...

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Stanford’s Student Government Reasserts its Right to Suppress Campus Free Speech

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 12:30pm

We recently reported that after Stanford University’s student government refused to help fund an upcoming traditional marriage conference, calling the topic “hate speech,” campus administrators agreed to foot the bill for the security required for the event.

And, despite numerous complaints about its thuggery, the student bureaucrats assert that they did nothing wrong. ...

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Duke’s Porn Princess Complains, “I Don’t Feel Respected”

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 9:30am

The last time we checked on Duke University’s former student, Porn Princess Belle Knox, her example of entrepreneurial educational funding was an supposedly an inspiring example to other scholars.

However, the adult film actress seems to be having a few regrets now.  It’s doubtful that this development will get nearly the same...

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UC Berkeley students urge Nancy Pelosi to take her own commencement speech advice

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 6:30pm

San Francisco Representative and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delivered the commencement address at UC Berkeley.

The reviews are in…from the independent conservative students of that campus. The members of the California Patriot staff agree: She offered good advice, which the Democrats would do well to take.

…Pelosi certainly cannot be...

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In wake of UCSB slayings, U. Arizona student proposes concealed carry as solution

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 3:30pm

After Elliot Rodger’s alleged slaying of six people and himself near the University of California-Santa Barbara campus, University of Arizona student Julianne Stanford weighs in on allowing campus concealed-carry for students as a way to prevent mass killings at schools.

…. Where it’s lawful, can students and faculty be trusted to effectively...

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Temple University Fails to Condemn Professor’s Anti-Semitic Diatribe

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 12:30pm

Temple University is defending a professor who questioned the deaths of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and engaged in “anti-Semitic discourse” by saying he is entitled to promote his controversial ideas.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo has the details.

Adjunct Temple University Professor Alessio Lerro came under fire from Jewish scholars...

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Oklahoma’s New Law Protects Freedom of Association Rights for Religious Student Groups

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Posted by    Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 9:30am

Religious student organizations at public colleges and universities in Oklahoma will have their “freedom of association” rights more robustly protected on campuses under new state legislation.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reviews the new rules.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed HB 2873 (PDF) into law this week after both houses...

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Harvard Grads Place Red Tape on Caps in Sexual Assault Policy Protest

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Posted by    Monday, June 2, 2014 at 6:30pm

We reported that Harvard University was one of 5 Massachusetts institutions under federal investigation for its mishandling of sex assault cases.

Now, its students are expressing their unhappiness with the school’s handling of these cases in a graduation protest.

Dozens of Harvard University seniors marked their graduation caps with red tape in support...

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Loyola Student Describes Prof’s “Migrant Trail” Game Featuring Illegal Border Crossing

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Posted by    Monday, June 2, 2014 at 3:30pm

For many years kids have amused themselves with a history-based video came named “Oregon Trail”.

Loyola University student Dominic Lynch shares details about one professor’s modified version of this classic.

…A New York University professor has developed a video game called “The Migrant Trail,” in which students can experience the perils of what...

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Colleges Combine Career Centers and Development Offices to Push Student Employment

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Posted by    Monday, June 2, 2014 at 12:30pm

As the job market continues to be difficult for young Americans, many schools have been folding their career centers into their development offices with their well established alumni and parent networks.

Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal has the details.

Looking for the career-services office? Check with the fundraising and alumni-relations department.

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DePaul Administrators Nix Israel Divestment

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Posted by    Monday, June 2, 2014 at 9:30am

At Legal Insurrection, Professor Jacobson promoted awareness of last week’s anti-Israel all-campus student divestment vote.

However, the measure passed (but only 10 percent of the students weighed in). Now administrators are are about to give the supporters of the measure a lesson in economics.

Loyola University student Matt Lamb offers this analysis.

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Which Schools and Majors Have Best Return on Investment?

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 5:00pm

File this story under “News You Can Use.”

Here in the United States, education comes at a price. As the cost of education climbs and climbs, loans have become increasingly necessary for students interested in pursuing higher education.

As a result, the national student debt currently stands at a whopping 1.2 trillion dollars....

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College Board’s new American History “Framework” bears little resemblance to actual history

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 2:00pm

In Breitbart, Jane Robbins (senior fellow of APP Education of the American Principles Project) and Larry Krieger (a retired AP U.S. History teacher) offer a very troubling review of The College Board’s new “American History Framework”.

Sadly, it looks like any resemblance to real history present will be purely coincidental.

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Black pundit unhappy with the Obama Economy of “Well Educated Baristas”

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 11:00am

When President Obama promised to be “transformative,”  few college students anticipated he would create an economy of “well educated baristas.”

Zero Hedge’s Tyler Durden reviews one black pundits complaint that over half of black graduates get jobs that do not require college degrees, and notes that they are in the same...

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Reality TV film causes pampered Atlantic City public school official to quit

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 8:00am

Atlantic City’s school district is one of the most notorious ones in the country.

We reported on its test-cheating scandal earlier this year.

Now, a TV crew captured another district employee in his “natural environment” that included massages and manicures. Fortunately for Atlantic City’s under-served students, he quit after the video was released.

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Police locate body of U. of Cincinnati student, who was missing for a week

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Posted by    Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 5:00pm

Police located the body of Brogan Dulle, a student at the University of Cincinnati (UC) who had recently gone missing.

According to WLWT, the police said Dulle’s body was in the portion of a building in Mount Auburn vacant and undergoing renovations. The building is also near where Dulle was reportedly last...

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U. of Texas Austin Student Newspaper Interviews San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro

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Posted by    Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 2:00pm

At Legal Insurrection, Professor Jacobson reported that Julian Castro, the Mayor of San Antonio, may be nominated for a Cabinet post to give him the credentials to be Hillary’s Veep pick.

The Daily Texan,...

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U. of Montana, Poster Child for Title IX Sex Harassment Drive, Tuns Around Its Reputation

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Posted by    Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 11:00am

After a series of rapes, the University of Montana became the proving ground for the implementation of stringent, new sex harassment rules issued under Title IX.

It has been working hard to turn around its reputation:

…Missoula, Montana — home of the University of Montana — was thrust into the national spotlight in...

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