This is taking the “pornification” of schools just a bit too far.
A 19-year-old pornographic model was charged with trespassing and public nudity after taking naked photos of herself at the Catholic high school she once attended.
Valerie Dodds, whose pornographic photos appear on her blog under the stage name Val Midwest, also...
The National Security Agency (NSA) is the biggest spy surveillance organization in the world.
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is now making headlines after he leaked information claiming the the agency was systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data from American citizens.
As a result, one campus specifically mentioned by Snowden...
Santa Monica College’s recent spree shooting, in which the alleged killer is believed to have slain his father and brother, has just claimed a fifth victim:
Two days after a shooting spree shocked the affluent beachfront city of Santa Monica, the rampage claimed a fifth victim Sunday with the death of a...
It’s good to see American justice applied to a woman in the same way as a man, in terms of having sex with an underage partner.
Last year, 26-year-old Sarah Jones, captain of the Cincinnati Bengals cheerleading squad and a one-time English teacher in a Kentucky high school,was indicted by a Kentucky...
“It’s for the victims!”
This rationale is often the impetus for liberty-crushing rules. Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed has details on push-back from institutions whose administrators are evaluating the implications of applying the new sexual harassment prevention rules under Title IX, which have been strongly condemned by free speech advocates.
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When Legal Insurrection has to run a headline like this, you know something is wrong, 7-year old Pop-Tart gun offender loses first appeal.
File this news under “Stating the Obvious”.
Little boys around the nation keep getting in trouble for guns – whether they’re made of plastic, formed by fingers or even fashioned...
There seems to be a new New Testament, based on progressive ideology.
First, a Swarthmore Collete guest lecturer preached about “Queer Christ“.
Now, three Iowa religious study instructors offers a different take on...
Affirmative action is hard. So many racial sub-groups, so little room.
A fascinatng new report urges colleges and other education groups to rework the classification schemes for Asian-American students, and says current practices to aggregate data hide inequities. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has this analysis.
A Michigan congressman is staging a rebellion against Senator Elizabeth Warren’s “Game of Loans“.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich) responded on Wednesday to a protest organized by Campus Progress in which students demanded Congress pass legislation that would freeze interest rates for student loans.
“I would say government has caused the price of education...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has an update to their report on an University of North Carolina speech code that it had warned the school was unconstititional:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has indefinitely suspended an unconstitutional speech code used against student Landen Gambill, who drew...
File this beef under “Campus Pork”.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded the University of Wisconsin (UW) and Oklahoma State University (OSU) a total of $19.5 million earlier this month to fund a study on the effects of climate change on beef and dairy cattle.
The USDA decided to...
One Alabama high school plucked a minority senior’s diploma for wearing the feather of a protected raptor.
A private high school in Alabama has denied a graduating senior her diploma and fined her $1,000 because she wore an eagle feather during her graduation ceremony.
Escambia Academy High School senior Chelsey Ramer dangled the...
As students wrap-up the academic year, many are now heading to their summer internships.
And while the pay is probably not great, Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal notes that the pay-off may be:
…Banks and consulting firms have long funneled interns into full-time roles, but companies in other industries are increasingly...
We recently covered conservative icon Thomas Sowell’s views on the “madness at Swarthmore” College.
Now, Dr. Robert Paquette, Ph.D., a prize-winning historian who co-founded the independent Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, shares his views on its institutional narcissism.
….It bears rereading, especially in light of the seemingly inexhaustible contemporary examples on...
The last time we checked in with Jeremy Epstein, a junior at Adelphi University, he was enjoying new-found fame with first question of Hofstra Univeristy Presidential debat:
President, Governor Romney, as a 20-year-old college student, all I hear from professors, neighbors and others is that when I graduate, I will have little...
Crime goes up as the economy goes down.
With the news that unemployment numbers are rising as college students are scrambling for summer jobs or career-starters, it seems that some scholars are now turning to crime (hat-tip, Glenn Reynolds).
The Education Department’s watchdog says the number of college students who are suspected of...
Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul once famously said, “Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism.”
Joseph S. Diedrich, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the campus Director of Operations of Young Americans for Liberty, agrees and then offers his own arguments defending the free market system.
So...
Dartmouth College alumni’s Dartblog recently fisked the following statement:
Sexual assault and racist, sexist and homophobic hate speech have become disturbingly normal — not only at Dartmouth but at colleges and universities around the country.
In light of hate crime hoaxes that College Insurrection as covered, the following portion of the analysis...
The Koch brothers may already be influencing the Los Angeles Times, even though their purchase of the paper is still an open question.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has this take on a recent LA Times opinion piece:
An editorial published in today’s Los Angeles Times calls on the Departments...
It looks as if Oprah Winfrey still has the gift of bringing people together!
The Right called it new-age gobbledygook. The Left thought it was science bashing.
It seems media mogul Oprah Winfrey has not only lost her touch (does anyone watch OWN?) – but people of all stripes agree she is a spiritual...
The Legal Insurrection/College Insurrection team has been noticed the Republican leadership’s lack of love for blogging, tweeting, and other modes of modern social media outreach.
Subsequently, there was little love in return from voters during the 2012 election.
San Diego State University student Emily Yavitch has noted the same thing at the college...
Several weeks ago, the UNC Chapel Hill Student Congress passed a resolution supporting in-state tuition for undocumented students who have graduated from a high school from North Carolina.
Ben Smith is a Sarah T. Hermann Intern Scholar at Young America’s Foundation this summer. He has a story that offers some troubling background...
