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Southern Methodist U. Student: Protecting Citizens and Second Amendment

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Posted by    Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 5:00pm

Eastern Florida State’s rescinding its ban on guns after a student was attacked is a hopeful sign that the tide is turning on campus attitudes toward the Second Amendment.

Southern Methodist University student Hayley Waring offers some related observations, based on another incident.

Have you heard or read about the terrible shooting that...

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Dartmouth Skier Dies During Cross-Country Race In Vermont

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Posted by    Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 2:00pm

A member of Dartmouth College’s ski team collapsed and died over the weekend while competing in a cross-country ski race in Vermont.

Torin Tucker, 20, a junior from Sun Valley, Idaho, was climbing an uphill stretch of a rugged 25-kilometer course in northeast Vermont on Saturday morning when he fell to the ground....

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Baltimore teachers upset over union demands regarding emails, mailboxes

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Posted by    Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 11:00am

Baltimore teachers believe a clause in a new union contract is designed to silence dissenters.

Based on the report filed by Rachel Stoltzfoos in The Daily Caller, they have plenty of reason to be concerned.

The Baltimore Teacher’s union has demanded exclusive rights to teachers’ interdepartmental emails and mailboxes in a new contract...

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Obamacare for the Higher Education System

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Posted by    Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 8:00am

A look at the current set of comments to Obama administration’s proposed college rating system reveals much confusion about program goals and a great deal skepticism about its viability.

It’s like Obamacare for Higher Education!

The Obama administration on Thursday released hundreds of pages of formal comments on its proposed college rating system,...

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Harvard Student Makes Convention-Flouting Case for Cannabis

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Posted by    Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 5:00pm

Harvard senior Joshua Lipson makes the case that his fellow scholars need to get “into the habit of occasional rule-breaking and convention-flouting” by using marijuana.

Perhaps he is considering continuing his education at Humboldt’s Marijuana Institute?

Every election season, Harvard’s undergraduate population bubbles over with enthusiasm for Barack Obamas and Elizabeth Warrens—standard-bearers of...

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Yale’s Latest Sexual Misconduct Report Offers Troubling Details

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Posted by    Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 2:00pm

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has an analysis of Yale University’s latest campus sexual misconduct report.

Some of the details, or lack thereof, are drawing reasonable concerns about the rights of the accused.

Yale University’s latest Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct relays details about 70 complaints of sexual misconduct...

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UCLA’s student’s wish list for Waxman’s replacement

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Posted by    Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 11:00am

As Professor Jacobson noted, Henry Waxman is leaving his seat in Congress after 40 consecutive years as a representative for a West Los Angeles.

The district includes the University of California – Los Angeles. Student Maia Ferdman offers her thoughts...

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Mexican university offers class on becoming an American citizen

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Posted by    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 6:30pm

Give the subject matter covered in some of our country’s college courses, perhaps a few American professors might benefit from a Mexican university’s new “Becoming a U.S. Citizen” program.

A Mexican university with a branch campus in San Antonio, Texas will now offer the first-ever college-level course in how to become a...

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William and Mary Student: Obama Refused to Tackle Super Bowl Interview Questions

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Posted by    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 3:30pm

Fox New Channel’s Bill O’Reilly met with President Barack Obama for a brief interview before the start of the Super Bowl.

Elizabeth Marcello, student at the College of William and Mary, says that...

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UC Berkeley Prof Requires Students Tweet On Islamophobia

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Posted by    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 12:30pm

Showing today’s students can be savvy about both social media and academic agendas, some University of California – Berkeley students are upset over one professors latest class requirements.

UC Berkeley students enrolled in an Asian American Studies course called “Islamophobia & Constructing Otherness” are required to create Twitter accounts and Tweet about...

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Hillsdale professor rips Common Core as “superficial, biased, embarrassingly dumb”

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Posted by    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 9:30am

We recently reported that anarchitect of the new federal education program Common Core Architect admitted partnership with the Obama campaign team.

This may readily explain a Hillsdale college professor’s devastating assessment of its quality.

A Hillsdale College professor has penned a book he hopes will serve as a user’s guide for parents, citizens,...

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California agency looks to regulate new providers of tech training

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Posted by    Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 6:30pm

It never fails: Whenever one group of innovators develops a profitable way to bypass regulations, regulators figure out new ways to impose rules and restrictions on them.

The latest case involves the ever expanding California bureaucracy and firms offering innovative tech training.

A new type of educational provider has quietly sprung up in...

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San Diego Student Says Campus Smoking Ban Undermines “Diversity”

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Posted by    Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 3:30pm

File this story under “When Worlds Collide”.

One of the most sacred cows on college campuses today is the “Diversity Program.” And a favorite target for progressive activists is second-hand smoke.

However, San Diego State University student Simon Shieh argues that recently enacted campus no-smoking rules undercut diversity.

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UConn responds to Title IX lawsuit about mishandled sex assault complaints

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Posted by    Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 12:30pm

The University of Connecticut has responded to a Title IX lawsuit claiming that it mishandled several reports of sexual assaults on its main campus.

Kathleen Megan of The Hartford Courant files this report:

In court papers filed Monday, the University of Connecticut denied some of the key...

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Could unionized Northwestern football team spell end of women’s college sports?

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Posted by    Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 9:30am

We recently reported that Northwestern University’s football team was weighing options to unionize.

Breitbart contributor C. Edmund Wright extrapolates what this could mean for Title IX-based sports team requirements that have expanded women’s teams to the detriment of men’s.

It’s been almost comical to watch the liberal sports media’s obvious arousal over what...

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George Mason U. students know Bieber better than SOTU

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 6:30pm

Perhaps the best way to look at the following video is that it is proof President Barack Obama no longer occupies a special place in the hearts and minds of young Americans.

MRCTV’s Dan Joseph went to George Mason University and interviewed students on two of the week’s biggest news events: Justin...

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Harvard, Berkeley profs’ study disproves Obama’s income inequality assertions

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 3:30pm

At this point, many Americans are dubious of President Obama’s statements on many subjects.

In fact, two new studies (including one lead by a group of Harvard and UC Berkeley economists) undermine the President’s State of the Union remarks about “income inequality.”

One study found that the ability of the poorest children to...

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Labor law experts say college athletes have right to unionize

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 12:30pm

We recently reported that members of the Northwestern University football team are weighing the option to unionize.

According to labor law experts, the student players may have a case.

A recent play by some college football players to unionize is within the realm of possibility – as long as they convince the National...

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Columbia Art Students Battle “Patriarchy” with Lesbian Porn Film

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 9:30am

A group of feminist activist art students at a prestigious institution have decided to make a lesbian porn film to fight our male-dominated culture.

Perhaps they did not realize the target audience for such films is usually not lesbians?

Feminist art students at Columbia University claim to have struck a mighty blow against...

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Lafayette College Offers a More Sophisticated “Sex Week 2014”

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Posted by    Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 6:30pm

Some schools offer aphrodisiac cooking classes and porn stars as part of their “Sex Week” celebrations.

Lafayette College in Pennsylvania has events that seem a bit more mature — in the good sense of the word.

A look at the Sex Week 2014 schedule for the school shows some science will be discussed:

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Campus feminists staging another “Wikistorm”

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Posted by    Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 3:30pm

As Professor Jacobson recently reminded us in a post on Seattle Seahawks’ Richard Sherman, Wikipedia is crowd-sourced and its information is subject to a high degree of manipulation.

However, for a cadre of progressive activists, Wikipedia is the also bane of feminists.

Feminist groups at more than a dozen universities are planning to...

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Top 20 Colleges With Most On-Campus Drug And Alcohol Arrests

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Posted by    Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 12:30pm

Professor Jacobson has even more reason to be proud of Cornell University!

His school is not depicted anywhere on a set of maps from Rehabs.com, which shows where college students face the most arrests for drugs and alcohol.

Here is one of the generated images:

“We wanted to find interesting data that’s been under-explored,”...

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