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“Queer” racial segregation workshop organizer at Brown defends event

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 3:45pm

Recently, we reported on a  group of Brown University students who organized an on-campus workshop in which “queer” participants were to separate by race to “work past their sexual attraction to Caucasian.”

After intense social media scrutiny, the event Facebook page was taken down.

Now, Timothy Dionisopoulos...

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UC Santa Cruz Student Uses Craigslist to Set-Up Rape Hoax

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 12:30pm

While attending a February conference the University of California- Santa Cruz for on  lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, a student  claimed that she had been raped in broad daylight on the school’s campus.

An investigation by the police indicates that the victim staged the crime herself, using Craigslist to hire the...

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Author says real college rebels will stop “hooking up”

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 11:00am

We have covered the biological effects of hooking up on a post that delves into sexual biochemistry.

Now, Donna Freitas takes a look at the emotional devastation that is a consequence of sex without commitment.  She the author of a new book, entitled“The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture Is Leaving a...

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NYU student news blog suggests sex in the school’s Catholic Center

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 8:00am

New York University is the home of the original campus “Hook-Up” Facebook page.

UC Berkeley then followed with a similar social media page.

UC Berkeley made waves with a publication that directed students to choice sites for public intimacy.

Now, as a response to the West Coast “sexual scholarship competition”, a NYU student blog...

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Wabash College Student: Pillage in Cyprus

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Posted by    Monday, April 1, 2013 at 5:00pm

All eyes are on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, as it struggles to dealt with its banking crises.

Though Cyprus lawmakers rejected the idea of seizing depositor assets, Wabash College student Christian Lopac expresses his concern about the direction of European Union financial policies.

It’s safe to say that most Americans either have...

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FIRE Wants Florida Gov. Rick Scott to Stomp Campus Speech Codes

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Posted by    Monday, April 1, 2013 at 11:00am

The story of a Florida student suspended for refusing a professor’s “Stomp Jesus” class assignment is still evolving.

Recently, the school administrators released a formal apology. Now, the country’s premier group defending student free speech rights, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is requesting that the state’s governor start an...

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California Community College Enrollment at 20-year Low

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Posted by    Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 4:30pm

That loud sound coming from the West Coast is the not a North Korean bomb detonating.

It is the bursting of the “higher education bubble”.  Carla Rivera of the Los Angeles Times has the details on the plummeting enrollment for California’s community colleges:

Enrollment in California’s community colleges has plunged to a 20-year...

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The New Parent Trap: College Loans

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Posted by    Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 2:30pm

The Parent Trap is a 1961 comedy about teenage twins on a quest to reunite their divorced parents.

Add 52 years, and the new millennium’s version is substantially less humorous.   In the Wall Street Journal, Rachel Louise Ensign discusses how student  loan debt is hurting the parents of today’s scholars.

Diana Jackson had...

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Pasadena Students “Welcome” Pornography Class Featuring Porn Stars

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Posted by    Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 12:30pm

You have to admire the innovation of the faculty members at California’s college institutions.

First, one school opens up the “Marijuana Research Institution“.

Now, Hillsdale College student Jack Butler reports on on a local college intriguing new offering.

A relatively new Pasadena City College class called “Navigating Pornography” – devoted to giving students a...

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Yale’s Latest “Sex Achievement”: Historic Levels of Sexual Misconduct

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Posted by    Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 11:00am

Yale University is notorious for its “Sex Week” and promoting a “free love” atmosphere with its gender-neutral housing.

Now, The College Fix Editor Nathan Harden  reports on the tragic consequences of its sexual scholarship policies:

Yale University has made headlines in recent years for hosting numerous controversial sex-themed events in the classroom, most...

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A good day for symbols of faith and country

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Posted by    Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 9:30am

We have been following the case of a student’s suspension for refusing to “Stomp Jesus” during a class assignment.

Earlier this year, we also noted that a “stomp the American flag” incident during a South Carolina’s high school class lead to a teacher’s suspension after parent protests.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller...

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High Schools, Colleges, and the Advanced Placement Courses

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Posted by    Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 3:05pm

High school students often rely on Advanced Placement courses for a jump on the college experience.

Jay Mathews, an education columnist for The Washington Post, looks at some critiques of these classes made by some professors and how those concerns can be best addressed.

I complained recently that college professors too often wrongly...

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New Jersey Student Defends Rand Paul’s Immigration Plans

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Posted by    Friday, March 29, 2013 at 5:00pm

Recently, Rand Paul gave a speech on overhauling American immigration policy, and defended his ideas on Fox News after  critical quotes from Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.

Now College of New Jersey student Colin Snell comes to the Kentucky senator’s defense in The College Conservative.

Rising GOP Star Rand Paul shocked conservatives last...

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Texas A&M student senate proposal gives students choice about paying GLBT Center fees

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Posted by    Friday, March 29, 2013 at 3:30pm

One university is taking a “pro-choice” approach about student fees.

The Daily Caller’s Eric Owens reports that the student government at one Texas school is considering a proposal that is actually sensitive to religious faith concerns:

A bill proposed in the student senate at Texas A&M University in College Station last week would...

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NYU ‘HERstory’ month included burlesque dancer and ‘Saran Wrap’ sexual workshop

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Posted by    Friday, March 29, 2013 at 11:00am

The last time we checked New York University, the student’s there had just opened up a “Facebook Hook-Up Page“.

Now, in homage to “Women’s History Month”, the school continues to push the limits of sexual scholarship by offering several tasteless workshops.  Campus Reform’s Katherine Timpf has the details, along with a logo...

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Emerson College student takes Big Gulp of Liberty

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Posted by    Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 6:30pm

When Sarah Palin gave her dynamic speech at CPAC, her use of the Big Gulp evoked comparisons to the Statue of Liberty.

Now, Emerson College student Kristin Tate plans to carry on the “Big Gulp” protest during her spring break.  Tate also details her anger at government’s food obsessions during challenging economic...

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College Conservative: Do Not Take Emotional Bait on Gay Marriage Issue

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Posted by    Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 5:00pm

In the College Conservative, contributor  Amy Miller has some thoughts on the Proposition 8 arguments and about how to handle news about these cases until decisions come down this June:

[T]he oral arguments on Hollingsworth v. Perry [the Proposition 8 case] provided plenty of meat for your next great Facebook debate, so let’s...

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Boston College Attempts to Derail Underground Condom Railroad

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Posted by    Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 3:30pm

Catholic schools tend to impose rules based on the teachings of the Catholic faith.

However, when administrators at Boston College decided to crack down on student-organized workarounds to the campus’ faith-based rules on contraception, it ran afoul of one activist civil rights organization.  Eric Owens explains in The Daily Caller.

Official Roman Catholic...

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UT-Austin student government marijuana resolution goes up in smoke

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Posted by    Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 2:30pm

Here’s another example of how California and Texas differ dramatically.

In California, one institution opened up a “Marijuana Research Institute“.  In Texas,  students rejected a resolution endorsing a change in the school’s marijuana possession policy. Eric Owens of The Daily Caller has the details:

Tuesday night’s student government meeting at the University of...

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Retired Western Washington U. geology prof chips away at “Global Warming”

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Posted by    Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 11:00am

At Legal Insurrection, I recently reported that a group of British scientists presented material that indicated that global temperatures have been at a standstill.

Now, The College Fix reports that an American scientists presented similar information to his state’s senators:

Not every academic believes global warming is real, man made and destroying...

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Towson University’s White Student Union to conduct nighttime campus patrols

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Posted by    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 12:30pm

In September, we reported that Towson University senior Matthew Heimbach launched the “White Students Union” .

The Daily Caller’s Eric Owens has an update on the group’s latest activity involving nighttime campus patrols:

Something called the White Student Union at Towson University has announced plans to conduct random nighttime patrols on the...

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Ohio State University Releases “Bias List”

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 1:10pm

Never let it be said schools are not innovative when it comes to imposing speech codes.

Scott Greer of Campus Reform details Ohio State University’s black listing of a wide range of items, in the quest for complete political correctness.

A left-out piñata string mistook for a noose, American Indian costumes, and comments...

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