Given the First Amendment struggles of student religious groups on campus, it could be argued that atheists have their argument backwards.
However, a group of non-believers is proceeding with a special anti-bullying plan just for them:
Saying atheists are bullied and ridiculed, the Secular Student Alliance this fall launched a “Secular Safe Zones”...
As many high school students are beginning the arduous process of filing college applications, Business Insider has published a handy list…of the top 20 universities around the world that produce the most employable graduates.
The good news: Eight of those schools are in the United States.
The bad news: Many of those schools...
File this story under “Gay Pride.”
The following contains graphic material. Please be advised.
The notoriously raunchy and popular homosexual sex advice columnist and pundit Dan Savage visited the University of Oregon in mid-October, and more recently it was revealed thanks to a public records request that he was paid $24,000 for his talk, which...
Check out the latest offering from Prager University:
Is Evil Rational?
Nowadays, it’s fashionable to use the terms “rational” and “irrational” (or “sick”) to describe good and evil. Mass murderers are routinely described as “irrational madmen,” while extraordinary acts of goodness are deemed “rational.”
But is this accurate? Are “reason” and “goodness” the same...
Question: How do you know when liberals have run out of all logic and reason during a discussion on any subject?
Answer: When they start pulling out the dreaded “race card” in any of its varied forms.
Newsbusters reports on dialog between Washington Post Magazine humorist Gene Weingarten and his feminist friend Gina...
The bias toward conservatives on campus at many campuses is so great that one school as had to make it a policy change to seek our conservative professors for hire.
Now, conservative students at a school in a deep blue state share their stories.
Danny Mackey has been called a racist, a sexist...
Earlier this year, we covered a story about a California boy “identifying as female” using the girls locker room at his high school.
Subsequently, in July, the state legislature passed AB 1266, requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and participate on sports teams that match the gender they...
College presidents are discovering that lavish lifestyles come with a cost…high stress.
It looks like many of them are following the national trend of downsizing.
A college presidency was once considered the pinnacle of the profession, a position that could be enjoyed for decades.
That was before the decline in taxpayer support of state...
After being wooed with free pizzas and other perks, college students who flocked to vote for President Obama are now getting the bill for their support.
And most are quite shocked about how high it is:
It was a health care shocker for college students in New Jersey who found out that they...
The grades of coming in for Obama’s vaunted College Affordability Plan.
Like Obamacare, the grades seem to be a bit shy of the “solid B plus” mark.
For example, The Cornell Daily Sun editorial board is worried implementation could “do more harm than good.
In a Forbes op-ed published this week, “Rating President Obama’s...
One famous supporter of President Obama is no longer singing his praises:
Maya Angelou, a well-known author and poet who’s been a major supporter of President Obama, now says he’s faltering on education, unwittingly driving away children from reading due to onerous standardized testing.
Ms. Angelou was one...
It appears that University of California student activists had their demands of sanctuary for undocumented students met, as UC President Janet Napolitano announced the system would give out $5 million for illegal immigrants to obtain special counseling and financial aid.
The New York Times reported that the announcement came as a way...
Two is not always better than one.
A new study shows that if you combine two disciplines in your dissertation, you can expect to earn less than you would otherwise in the year after finishing your doctorate.
Everyone, it seems, loves the idea of scholars interdisciplinary work. But does academe reward those —...
A Virgina high school student accidentally took her stepbrother’s gun to school when she borrowed his car, and subsequently crashed into “zero tolerance” weapons rules.
A Virginia high school student was given a two-week suspension after making a critical mistake — she drove her stepbrother’s car to school instead of her own.
Sixteen-year-old...
Legal Insurrection has been covering the fallout from an Brown University event at which NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was shouted down by protesters against NYC’s stop and frisk policy.
Brown biology professor Ken Miller asserts the shout-down was not “glorious”, but shameful. He recounts his experience at Brown in 1966 listening...
Most know the concept of the “Glass Ceiling” that prevents some people from getting the best jobs or education.
Scott Stern,a junior at Yale University’s Branford College, has some keen observations about the school’s “Glass Floor”.
A little less than a month ago, Richard Reeves, a Senior Fellow...
If the Obamacare exchange roll-out is any indication, colleges should start preparing for ensuing chaos during the implementation of the Obama administration’s new college programs.
The Obama administr...
One of the casualties of the campus “War on Men” has been the dating life of Young Americans.
Cosmopolitan is trying to help the situation by offering a two lists where women have the greatest and least chance to meet eligible bachelors….perhaps at a politically correct Halloween party.
The good news: Women now...
It the wake of federal requirements under Title IX, schools are reworking their code of conduct to address sexual harassment and assault.
University of California – Los Angeles is no exception. It’s student leaders recently voiced their concerns about the school’s new code of conduct. Now, the Daily Bruin editorial board demands...
File this story under “Expert Opinion”:
William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, a novel that was adapted into one of the highest-grossing films of all time, took aim at his alma mater Georgetown University in an interview with The Washington Post this week. A story prominently featured on the Drudge Report...
As October concludes, it ends the official season of breast cancer awareness and fundraising events.
Annica Benning, a student at Arizona State University, shares her concerns about what the whole operation has become:
Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the nation, and spreading awareness of and raising money for...
As Halloween dawned, one Connecticut university’s threat to punish students for wearing “offensive” costumes magically disappeared.
Administrators at Quinnipiac University warned students not to dress up for Halloween as culturally insensitive characters, including Mexicans, gangsters or “promiscuous nurses.”
But the private Connecticut university later backed off its claim that offend...
