The University of Tennessee is the next in a long line of institutions rebranding sports teams and mascots.
The power-that-be probably did not realize that losing “Lady” from women’s sports team names would stir such controversy.
Sports columnist Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post chimes in on the University of Tennessee’s decision to...
Looking at a piece on Jonathon Gruber and the credentialed class, Dr. Glenn Reynolds noted, “I’m beginning to feel that America’s educational system hasn’t produced the best-possible governing class.”
Daniel Pellegrino, a student at Franklin and Marshall College, would probably concur with this assessment. He recently reviewed a Dartmouth’s “scholar’s” tasteless query...
At the University of California-Davis, indoctrination starts even before class begins.
The University of California, Davis, requires students to complete an online activity in which they must identify certain words and phrases as “problematic” before they register for classes. Students are prompted to match “I’d hit that,” “I raped that exam,” “bitch,”...
Yale’s School of Medicine recently launched a “Task Force on Gender Equity”.
Meanwhile, a doctor who was removed as director of the cardiovascular research center over accusations of sexual misconduct, indicates he is being defamed while the school pursues a sex harassment case against him.
… Monday, Yale President Peter Salovey, Provost Ben...
I cannot wait to see what happens at Harvard when the campus “Big Oil is Evil” activists learn of their school’s latest endowment activity.
I sense another kind of “Black Mass” may be organized.
Harvard University’s endowment...
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the fraternity whose icy ‘torture’ of pledges that evoked Tarantino films and has led to its moniker of “America’s Deadliest Frat”, is now facing another new crisis.
The University of Arizona put the fraternity on an interim suspension while it investigates a report that members attacked a Jewish frat.
According...
The impact of the Nov. 4th election tsunami is still being assessed.
Matt Dragonette, a junior at the University of Maryland, reviews the reasons for the biggest upset of the evening: Republican Larry Hogan win in Maryland’s gubernatorial election over incumbent Democrat Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown.
…Central to Hogan’s campaign was his use...
The new bathrooms pair nicely with the pagan student club that has just been approved.
Loyola University Chicago’s student government is considering whether to recommend all restrooms on campus be made “gender-neutral.”
What’s not clear from the sponsor, however, is whether multi-stall restrooms would be open to men, women and trans students for...
Hoping to add to its numbers, a prominent teachers union wants another big perk: free tuition.
Despite massive losses by the candidates it supported, the National Education Association is proceeding headlong this week with its “Degrees Not Debt Week of Action.” The week of political theater seeks to rally support for new...
West Virginia University (WVU) has suspended all fraternity and sorority activity after a student, who was originally found unconscious at a frat house, has died.
Nolan Burch, the 18-year-old student at West Virginia University (WVU) who was found at a fraternity house unconscious and without a pulse early Thursday morning, has died.
WVU...
President Obama recently announced Loretta Lynch as his nomination to replace the soon-to-be former Attorney General, Eric Holder
Sam Leanza, a student at Concordia University, takes a look at the nominee and the why she is being selected now, when her background shows her to be a potentially better fit that Eric...
It’s so nice to report an American university doing something nice related to our country’s veterans…especially around Veteran’s Day.
George Washington University is launching a bachelor of science in nursing program for military veterans, school officials announced.
The veterans BSN program, which will start in the spring 2015 semester, is designed to support...
Colleges are now looking to close some legal loops that allow financial advisers to contact athletes who are promising pro prospects and lead them into making bad decisions regarding their money.
The Wall Street Journal‘s Julie Steinberg has this report:
…It is illegal in most states for sports agents to provide gifts or...
In the wake of a very aggressive police search, one university is standing up for its students’ civil liberties.
Lindenwood University in Missouri demanded a “written apology” from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department after “close to 15″ officers detained two student journalists for 90 minutes, searched their vehicle...
File this story under “Unintended Consequences.”
“Home schooling has steadily risen in North Carolina since it was legalized in 1985 by the state Supreme Court,” T. Keung Hui reported on News Observer.com on August 13, 2014. “Twenty-five years ago, there were about 2,300 home-schooled students in North Carolina.”
“But concerns about school violence,...
Given the failure to scientifically prove that man-made global warming occurs, a professor has just proposed a new theory based on the second greatest evil for progressives….after conservatives.
War.
University of Georgia professor James Porter said at a recent lecture that “war is more destructive to the environment than any other normal activities...
Mexican authorities have made some disturbing findings in their search for the reasons behind the mass execution of 43 students, who were recently reported as missing.
Forty-three college students kidnapped by police under orders of a mayor in southern Mexico were probably killed by a drug gang that tried to destroy all...
Formerly-quarantined nurse Kaci Hickox may have won her freedom from Ebola-based restrictions in court, but it appears that her win may have curtailed the educational plans of her boyfriend.
The boyfriend of...
Brown University officials report that a student who complained of memory loss after drinking punch at a fraternity party tested positive for a date-rape drug, while tests on another student are pending.
The fraternity that hosted the party has now been suspended.
The student’s test indicated the presence of GHB (gamma hydroxybutrate); a...
A San Diego State University student plunged to her death after responding to a dare.
Sadly, this tragedy comes hard on the heels of the meningitis-caused death of Sara Stelzer, who belonged to the same sorority.
A San Diego State University student died Friday morning after she fell from the roof of a...
The athletic director of the University of Michigan resigned amid several controversies during Michigan’s football season, including his decision to send a concussed quarterback in back into a game this September.
The Dave Brandon era in the Michigan athletic department officially ended Friday afternoon. The university’s 11th athletic director handed in his...
As the Democratic Party assesses the reasons for its historic failure this November, it may want to consider the views of the millennials who failed to go to the polls.
If you have lost a George Washington University journalism major, then you have probably lost the rest of the millennial generation.
Robin Jones...
