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Princeton Student: “Social media says a lot about who we are.”

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Posted by    Friday, September 27, 2013 at 6:30pm

A start-up company recently launched a Princeton branch for their new social media app directed to helping students meeting others with shared interests .

The release spurred sophomore Shruthi Deivasigamani to thinking about the hold social media has on student lives.

While at a brief glance it might seem like a small, rather...

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Smith College Coed Wants ‘Straight-only’ Sorority; Witch-hunt Ensues

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Posted by    Friday, September 27, 2013 at 3:30pm

It loos like our young men are not the only ones suffering from the enforcement of progressive feminist principles on campus.

One anonymous Smith College coed, who wanted to form a straight-only sorority that would promote an entirely different diversity outreach approach that was favorable to men, is now the t...

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Vassar Minority Student Derides Athletic Diversity Outreach

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Posted by    Friday, September 27, 2013 at 12:30pm

We often cover the negative impact on intolerant diversity rules on students and their organizations on campuses nationwide.

Yet, it seems minority students who are the focus of this “outreach” don’t seem to appreciate the approach either.  Vassar College student Aja Saafeld offers this “diversity perspective”.

I’m brown, I’m queer, I’m Jewish—all this...

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War on Boys in Schools: Math and Science Edition

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Posted by    Friday, September 27, 2013 at 9:30am

American schools have become hostile learning environments for boys and young men.

Yet, some progressive pundits would rather manipulate statistics and bash conservatives than achieve true gender equality. Caroline Kitchens excoriates a vapid and error-ridden report in National Review (hat-tip, Instapundit).

What’s happened to The New Republic? YesterdayOn Tuesday, it published a mistake-ridden...

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Yale Student on the Merits of a Lower Legal Drinking Age

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Posted by    Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 2:00pm

Yale University is often featured at College Insurrection for its “Majoring in Fun” atmosphere.

That being said, Yale Junior Geng Ngarmboonanant makes a very reasoned case for lowering the legal age for drinking:

The merits of lowering the drinking age are relatively clear. We know that college students drink. But the current law...

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Pregnant Harvard School of Public Health Grad Killed In Nairobi Terror Attack

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Posted by    Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 11:00am

Legal Insurrection reported on last week’s tragic terror attacks in a mall in Kenya.

Now, The Harvard Crimson reports that one of its graduates, who was 8-months pregnant, was killed in the incident.

Elif Yavuz, a 2013 graduate of Harvard School of Public Health, was among dozens killed in a terrorist attack that...

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Former Terrorist Bill Ayers to give ‘queering education’ speech at Gettysburg College

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Posted by    Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 8:00am

The last time we checked in with terrorist-turned professor Bill Ayers, he was upset that people were equating the bombings that he and others in the Weather Underground did 40 or so years ago with the April 15 twin bombings in Boston that killed three people.

Now, he is planning to give...

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Wisconsin Grad Student’s Email Slams Intolerant “Diversity Training” Realities

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 6:30pm

Many astute students have already observed that “inclusion” means “excluding white, male students”.

One Wisconsin graduate student, upon coming to that realization, now formally rejects further “diversity training”.

Jason Morgan, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student earning his doctorate there, has told his supervisor he objects to the school’s mandated diversity training for teaching...

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Brown U. Reveals “Nudity Week” with Special Student Performances

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 3:30pm

Earlier this year, we reported that Brown University offered a special workshop aimed at teaching its male students how to find sexual pleasure from their prostates.

Now, perhaps in an effort to make that process easier, the school plans to host “Nudity Week”.

Brown University is set to host a weeklong “nudity” event...

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Head of U. Texas – Pan American Young Democrats is convicted child sex offender

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 12:30pm

Campus Reform offers a very disturbing report about the background of the head of a prominent student group at one Texas university.

Bill “Billy” Wayne Johnson, who is listed on the school’s official website as the primary contact for the student organization, was registered as a sex offender in April of 2010,...

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Constitution-Distributing Student Reveals “Free Speech Zone” Realities

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 9:30am

We recently covered an incident involving a California student told by campus authorities that he could not pass out copies of the United States Constitution outside the student center on September 17, 2013—Constitution Day.

That student, Robert Van Tuinen, offers details on that incident and gives a perspective on the real First...

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Parent complaints force Tennessee school to end religious site field trips

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 6:30pm

What’s up with Tennessee?

We recently reported that parents had to complain to get pork back on the menu, after one Tennessee school tried to pull it from their program.

Now, a Tennessee school district is revis...

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Student Purgatory: Wyoming Catholic College Bans Cell Phones

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 3:30pm

One student recently opined that smartphones are dumbing down communications.

That won’t be a problem for scholars at a Wyoming institution, however:

Students at Wyoming Catholic College must surrender their cell phones to school administrators again this year due to the school’s technology policy, which requires all phones be locked in a box...

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George Washington U. Student Now Wants Guns for Campus Cops

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 12:30pm

In the wake of the slaughter at the Navy Shipyard, one area student has developed a better appreciation for some of the unintended condequences of gun control laws:

Jarred Stancil, an international affairs sophomore at George Washington University, wants campus police officers to carry more than pepper spray and handcuffs. In the...

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Catholic Co-Eds Forced to Attend UCLA Condom Use Program

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 9:30am

File this story under “Sexual Scholarship”:

Alec Torres, the William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute, reports on a recent brouhaha at UCLA’s freshman orientation:

When two freshman sisters at UCLA were told their mandatory orientation on sexual harassment would include a section on sex education, they respectfully requested exemption from that...

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Hillsdale College Student: How The Syria Conundrum Could Have Been Avoided

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 6:30pm

As Syria’s Bashar Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin continue to publicly undermine the Obama Administration’s handling of the regional crisis, one student says this embarrassing international situation could have been readily avoided.

Hillsdale College student Dwinnell shares his perspective in TheCollegeConservative:

Regardless of what anyone believes is the “right approach” to the issues...

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U. of Tennessee Student Likens FDR to Titanic Captain

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 3:30pm

American history is often a target of substantial revision by progressive professors.

University of Tennessee student Adam Prosise, a senior in economics, takes a look at the Presidential administration of a perennial liberal favorite and draws an intriguing analogy:

The captain of the Titanic, Edward Smith, decided to cut through icy northern waters...

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Hamilton College sponsors “I Love Female Orgasm” workshop

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 1:30pm

Hamilton College in upstate New York certainly has a fascinating set of priorities.

It has driven the study of Western Civilization from its campus.  And organized racially-segregated diversity discussions.

Now, it is sponsoring an intriguing, new, biology-oriented program hosted by Hamilton’s “Womyn’s [sic]...

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U. of Iowa Establishing a Conservative Women’s Book Club on Campus

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 12:30pm

We recently reported that the campus leaders at University of North Carolona- Chapel Hill find conservative women unworthy to speak at their school.

On the other hand, conservative women may find the University of Iowa a less hostile environment:

One University of Iowa student is working toward creating an organization to empower conservative...

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Patrick Henry College Prof: Rape, Domestic Violence, Bullying Not Real Crimes

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Posted by    Monday, September 23, 2013 at 9:30am

Christian Patrick Henry College may be giving Florida Atlantic University some competition in the “Nuttiest Professor” category, after one of its faculty members offered a fairly insulting view how sex crimes are an invention fundamentalist Christians.

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U. of Idaho Student Says Smartphones Dumbing Down Communications

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Posted by    Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 5:00pm

Smartphones are an ubiquitous part of many American college campuses.

However, University of Idaho student Ryan Tarinelli says his fellow scholars are too smartphone dependent:

One can’t walk across the University of Idaho campus without seeing students hooked to their smartphones. But it’s not just college students that are entranced by smartphones, 56...

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Successful Entrepreneur Gives 20-Year Olds Some Savvy Advice

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Posted by    Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 2:00pm

Jason Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc, which provides documents and resources to start, develop and expand small businesses.

His site has over 30 million members and 25 million monthly visitors, and in a recent Forbes article, he offers some savvy perspective to young Americans hoping to also be successful.

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