Because the cinnamon challenge and planking just weren’t intense enough for the kids these days.
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Latest Young Adult Fad: The ‘Fire Challenge’
The new sensation on YouTube and elsewhere is, well, simply imbecilic: teens and young adults drenching themselves in alcohol or other flammable liquid...
Good news for anyone who wanted to study in Spain but didn’t have a strong background in Spanish language and literature.
Jack Grove at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Spain seeks to attract more foreign students
Spain h...
She claims that the administrators who hired her to increase faculty diversity then fired her because they’re racist. Sources say she has a very limited understanding of irony.
Dave Huber at the College Fix reports:
Prof Hired Due to Her Race Loses Race Discrimination Lawsuit
Roslyn Chavda, a former assistant pr...
In a study of colleges nationwide, it was found that both campus security and local law enforcement were reluctant to cite students for alcohol abuse. If they did anything, they usually sent them to university discipline boards, not the court system.
Samantha Watkins at The College Fix has the story:
Alcohol Citations For...
In order to register for classes in the fall, all Oklahoma State students will have to take an online course of sexual assault and harassment. This course will reportedly cost approximately $45,000 to implement in the first year, and continue to cost somewhat less than that every year after.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn at...
A new senate bill introduced Wednesday will make a ranking of colleges by their sexual assault numbers public records, as well as creating motre stringent punishments for institutions which do not comply. However, this legislation still fails to right one of the most egregious wrongs in the war on sexual assault:...
Despite the fact that a grand jury refused to issue an indictment against him, and that campus police found numerous pieces of evidence exonerating him, University of Cincinnati student Ethan Peloe continues to be prosecuted by school administrators for rape. First we did away with ‘innocent until proven guilty’, and now...
Dave Huber at The College Fix explains why he thinks attending a school of education is completely impractical:
Why Schools of Education are a Waste of Time
I had to slightly shake my head and let out a brief chuckle when I read Joanne Jacobs’ post on college schools of education. Titled “
The University of Dayton’s new logo design has been met with criticism and laughter, as many believe it looks a lot like the initials VD.
Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
U. of Dayton is latest university to get into trouble with logo redesign
University of Dayton officials on Tuesday denied...
There’s a new anti-feminist campaign on the web, and it’s brought to you by young women who know who’s really waging the “War on Women.”
Julianne Stanford at The College Fix has the story:
‘Women Against Feminism’ Explodes On Social Media, Drives Feminists Crazy
The #YesAllWomen campaign has found itself an opponent in the ongoing...
The editors at The Daily Californian — the independent student newspaper at UC Berkeley — say that if Californians can shoot porn, then they can also become prostitutes. And this isn’t a slippery slope argument against shooting pornography: it’s a sincere call for the legalization of prostitution.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has...
After it refused to divest from companies that do business with Israel, a pro-Palestinian group at San Diego State University say SDSU is complicit in the deaths in the Gaza Strip.
Mairead Mcardle at The College Fix has the full story:
Criticism comes after San Diego State student leaders rejected BDS resolution
A pro-Palestinian...
Modern feminists are incredibly prone to black and white thinking (just think of all the times someone has been called a ‘misogynist’ for disagreeing with them), often at the expense of understanding the real issues at hand. Here’s another example of that: feminists at a recent Feminist Majority conference seemed completely...
Joseph Asch at the DartBlog has some statistics that make Dartmouth’s claim of Need-Blind Admission seem a bit questionable:
Need-Blind Admissions? Really?
Sure, I understand that correlation is not causality, but still, the below figures do make one pause. Why do students not needing financial aid stand a much higher chance of getting...
After the “Dear Colleague” Letter of 2011, Harvard joins other Ivy League institutions like Yale and Cornell in almost completely abandoning due process with its new policy for prosecuting sexual assault on campus.
KC Johnson at Minding the Campus has the story:
Harvard Joins the Ivy League’s Race to...
The President of the College of DuPage in Illinois attempts to swindle $20 million from the state, but gets foiled by one leaked email.
Charlie Tyson at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Community college president’s leaked email shows plan to trade political support for state funds
A careless email has cost one community...
Jessica Freeman at The College Conservative offers up a quick and dirty guide to make sure every space is a safe space:
Official Approved and Endorsed Words, Sayings, and Phrases for Public Use:
This summer, television series Game of Thrones
joined the likes of Harry Potter, Mad
Men, and 50 Shades of Grey on the
ever-growing list of pop culture trends featured in university
classes. I guess the only way to get the modern student interested
is to pander to their immature interests.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix...
If there’s a demand someone is going to hook you up with the supply. Might as well corner the market while you can.
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix reports:
State-Approved Colorado University Teaches How To Grow, Sell Marijuana
Touting marijuana as “one of the fastest growing...
A Christmas gift for that incredibly paranoid special someone in your life. Just make sure to avoid those thank you hugs:
The Anti-Rape Bra: Coming to a Campus Near You?
College females take note: You may have a powerful new weapon in your arsenal to use against attackers … or even just...
Apparently double jeopardy doesn’t exist in college sexual assault litigation: an student at Amherst College is being forced into another misconduct hearing five years after he was first accused of unwanted sexual advances — a case his lawyer says was closed three years ago. And yet, his college is trying him...
Conner Dwinell at The College Conservative takes down the false narratives of ‘tolerance’ and ’empowerment:’
The False “Empowerment” Narrative
In the United States, where everything from the real state of the job market to the White House’s involvement in scandals is uncertain, some things remain constant. For example, many liberals don’t usually articulate fully...
