The suicides of football star Junior Seau and major league baseball’s Ryan Freel have been attributed to head injuries sustained during their athletic activities, a condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
These are only two of many cases of brain trauma that has led the National Institutes of Health to give Boston...
Students at one California school have tested positive for tuberculosis, and other schools across the nation have also recently experienced TB scares.
Forty-five students at one southern California school tested positive for tuberculosis exposure, sparking a fear that’s led administration and health agents on Friday to call for testing off all 1,800...
It is argued that the only one being discriminated by A&E is the “Duck Dynasty” star that offered his unfiltered opinion on homosexuality, after they placed the opinionated Phil Robertson on “indefinite hiatus” in the wake of his now famous magazine interview.
At the same time, there is an interesting lawsuit developing...
Campus “diversity police” have struck again, this time targeting an Afrobeat band.
The crime? The lead singer did not have the correct level of melanin to meet the elite definition of “black.”
….[An] African-American singer was deemed “not black enough,” and her Caucasian band mates were rejected because of their “insufficient representation of...
The Israeli international scientific collaboration with American institutions seems immune from the boycott and divestment efforts being chronicled by Professor Jacobson.
Elizabeth Redden of Inside Higher Ed files this report.
When the physicist Stephen Hawking cited the academic boycott as his reason for c...
American students are carrying over $1 Trillion in education debt, but that doesn’t mean they have to pinch pennies like Ebenezer Scrooge during the holidays.
The Wall Street Journal offers some savvy spending tips so the season...
The Midwest Marxist Conference was recently held at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and the teachers who attended spoke about the bond between the radical socialists and their Teachers Union.
Rebel Pundit has a report with analysis:
…One teacher, who spoke in an afternoon session, described his tactics to overcome the problem...
Business schools are now reaching out to military officers, saying veterans lend leadership experience and global perspective to classroom discussions.
In The Wall Street Journal, Scott Poitevent of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business (a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School as well as a...
Our last few reports on Georgetown University featured a member of Egypt’s Nazi Party and a Condom bandit.
However, as an essay by Georgetown student Angela Morabito shows, there is both class and common sense at the...
The University of California, Los Angeles has the most driven students in the world, according to data compiled by ViewsOnYou.
No, not because the southern California rely in automotive transportation, either! Peter Jacobs of Business Insider has the full report and list of other schools with highly motivated scholars.
The London based startup...
We recently reported that left-wing academic Catholics strenuously objected to Catholic University’s recent acceptance of a $1 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation to help fund a new school of business.
However, instead of doing penance for the act, the institution has blasted the effort as a means to “manufacture controversy”.
On...
The Pittsburgh edition of Craigslist recently posted an intriguing ad from someone who seems to want a Harvard degree without all that pesky scholarly work.
The ad has since been rescinded; perhaps the advertiser discovered that with “A” as the most common grade, being successful at that school wasn’t too hard...
A Canadian professor gave students an early Christmas gift during finals week…accidentally.
Twas the final before Christmas, and all through the hall,
It seemed that a gift had been given to all.
For one professor had shared, along with the test,
A partial list of which answers were best.No, it’s not just a nightmarish twist...
It’s isn’t just Harvard students who are upset over the bomb threat hoax during their finals week.
Hillsdale College student Thomas Novelly is also angry.
After I heard this story, I was mad. Wait, scratch that: I was furious, for multiple reasons.
I thought to myself, “Is this normal now?”. Are bomb threats going...
Given how many times those attempting to navigate the Obamacare health exchange websites have probably invoked “Jesus Christ,” “God” and “Heaven”, a UCLA professor’s assertions about Christ and Obamacare may have a little merit.
Samantha Watkins, a student at Point Loma Nazarene University, has a report on Robert Chao Romero, an ethnic...
We recently reported the tragic death of Chun Hsien “Michael” Deng, a New York City college freshman was fatally injured during a fraternity hazing ritual that required blindfolded pledges wearing weighted bags to navigate a path while being repeatedly knocked to the ground.
As a result, the fraternity has revoked its affiliation...
Priorities!
With outbreaks of various infectious diseases occurring on campuses nationwide, administrators at the University of Maryland are mandating student healthcare plans cover sex change operations.
The Diamondback, the University of Maryland’s student newspaper, is reporting that sex change operations may soon be required coverage under the university’s student health insurance plan. The...
Months after Professor David Guth’s tweets wishing death for the children of NRA members led to his suspension, the University of Kansas Board of Regents adopts a new policy defining punishments for “improper use of social media”.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has the details:
In September, the University of Kansas suspended...
We have covered the questionable topics deemed as scholarship at several colleges, the high jobless rates for recent grads, and other signs that would lead reasonable people to question how worthwhile higher education truly is.
The Higher Education Bubble has now burst to the point, Professor Tony Woodlief ponders the college savings...
Harvard’s Alan Y. Wang is a Crimson editorial writer who is a student of economics.
He has some intriguing observations about his field of study.
It seems as though economics is fighting for its right to stay in the exclusive group of fields deemed worthy enough to be called “science,” where subjects such...
Parents in one rural Michigan school district are outraged at the local teachers union’s involvement in a case that transparently demonstrates union priorities lie with the members and not the students.
The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has the details:
Michigan’s largest teachers union will force...
A Boston-area college is shaking up its policy…regarding dancing.
Yet, it is good to see school administrators remain sensible to the clear differences between dancing and twerking!
Students at Eastern Nazarene College just outside of Boston can dance on campus without fear of punishment now, but there still will be absolutely no twerking.
Officials...
