In The Wall Street Journal, Mike Vilensky discusses the increasing number of gay fraternities and lesbian sororities in New York and New Jersey.
When Syracuse University junior Aaron Goldsmith couldn’t picture himself at any of his school’s fraternities, he decided to start one where gay men would be in the majority.
“This is...
Commencement season seems to bring out the crazy, especially on some campuses.
We recently reported that University of California – Berkeley students have to pay to attend their own graduation. Now, some of those students are going green in their demands for ceremonial attire.
Students at the University of California – Berkeley are...
A counter-attack on the campus “War on Men” has been initiated with a civil rights complaint being filed against the University of Oregon.
As Professor Glenn Reynolds notes, “If this flies, a lot of schools will be at risk.”
Former Eugene City Councilor Kevin Hornbuckle has filed a civil rights complaint on behalf...
Recently, the left’s “War on Women” claimed a very influential victim.
We recently noted that Massachusetts’ Smith College announced that International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde withdrew as the school’s 2014 commencement speaker due to faculty and student protests over her organizations policies.
The economics faculty, who are focused on a subject...
Furman University student Lauren Cooley reviews one South Carolina’s new political science course that focuses on our former Vice President.
A government course at the University of South Carolina is led by the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and touts former Vice President Al Gore and his environmentalism causes.
Dr. Don...
With enrollments dropping, degree programs being gutted, and significant faculty cuts at institutions across the nation, it is obvious that there is serious turmoil within the American system of higher education.
The Obama Administration is now responding with its traditional approach, which is to throw money at the problem!
The probability of its...
We recently reported that Lewis & Clark College had received numerous complaints about overreacting when it disciplined two students for using racially offensive language during a small, late-night private party in a dormitory suite last fall.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reports that...
A Harvard survey confirms our report on the rise of Libertarianism across campuses nationwide.
Last week, Harvard University’s Institute of Politics released its 25th “Survey of Young Americans Attitudes toward Politics and Public Service,” providing valuable insight into the political mindset of the millennial generation. Conducted biannually since 2000, the poll traces...
Columbia Spectator student reporter Maia Bix covers a new legislative proposal that would mandate colleges within New York City to prepare monthly sex crime statistics.
New York City Public Advocate Letitia James proposed new legislation on Monday to address sexual assault on college campuses.
The NYC Campus Safety Act would require private and...
Mallory Factor is the John C. West Professor of International Politics and American Government at The Citadel – Military College of South Carolina as well as a Fox News Contributor.
He was recently interviewed by PJ Media’s Ed Driscoll about his new book, Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution–As Told...
Many political pundits are getting an early start to 2016 Presidential election predictions.
Despite a promise not to opine so early, Loyola University student Matthew Lamb explores one potential match-up and makes a startling assertion.
…In this hypothetical match-up, I look at how a possible 2016 match-up of Hillary Clinton vs. Rand Paul...
Swarthmore College is one of the most notoriously liberal bastions in the country.
After four years, student columnist Tyler Becker recounts his experiences as a campus conservative.
…Sometimes I regret calling my column “The Swarthmore Conservative.” While I am a conservative, I have written about more than politics in this column. Certain issues...
A proposed minimum wage hike could make a bleak employment situation for young Americans even more dire.
School officials at college in Illinois are warning that if the state raises the minimum wage, the y will cut hours for student workers, Campus Reform reported.
“Right now, we are able to hire eight part-time...
After the state legalizes the use of marijuana, one Colorado school offers a new, pot-based curriculum.
Its new “studies” program promises to put a new spin on the phrase, “higher education.”
Clover Leaf University in Colorado is offering an entire curriculum devoted to the study of cannabis, Campus Reform reported.
The new marijuana-themed institution...
Grove City College student Claire E Healey files this report on one of the frontlines in the upcoming 2016 presidential election battles: American college campuses.
When Hillary Clinton visited Yale University last month to accept an award, 100 students signed up for a campus group dedicated to supporting likely her 2016 presidential...
Waynesburg University student Nika Anschuetz compares the media treatment given to two of football’s most publicized players.
….Michael Sam has been praised for being the first openly gay football player in the NFL. On May 11, Michael Sam was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round; he was the 249th...
This week’s edition of “zero tolerance insanity” is going to make it challenging for one school’s fencing club to actually practice its sport.
The fencing club at North Dakota State University cannot hold practices on campus as a result of the school’s weapons policy, Campus Reform reported.
Members of the newly formed club...
The results of a new study do not bode well for campus safety statistics, especially in Colorado.
Underage college students are more likely to drive after smoking pot or to ride in a car with a driver who had, according to a recent study Reuters reported.
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts at...
St. Thomas Aquinas College student Mairead McArdle recently decried the protest tactics seen in this video, which shows a group of students at Portland State University storming a panel and while chanting “we will not be silenced in the face of your violence” until the event was shut down.
McArdle has first...
I wonder if Catholic students will be forced to attend?
Starting this fall, incoming students at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government may be mandated to check their privilege at freshmen orientation, a student group has announced.
“The administration has officially expressed its desire to collaborate with us on designing a privilege training...
We recently noted that Amherst College renewed a 30 year ban on sororities and fraternities.
And while there is an unfortunate tendency the limit the constitutional freedoms of students, such as the right to peaceful assembly and association, documents have been revealed that do not, perhaps, make the best case for reinstatement...
Bloomberg’s Steve Matthews and Victoria Stilwell note that the poet e.e. cummings once wrote, “One thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move.”
They then take a look at the current economic data to note that this isn’t true for today’s young Americans, and this is “an historic shift for a...
