The banners, which are hung throughout the UCLA campus, feature a variety of UCLA graduates highlighting the university’s proud legacy… and Angela Davis.
Jacob Kohlhepp at The College Fix has the story:
UCLA honors communist revolutionary as role model
Recently, while strolling down Bruin Walk, I admired the UCLA Optimist banners. The marketing campaign...
By this logic we should also ban Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Tumblr… really, the list goes on.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Ban Yik Yak for ‘misogyny, racism and bullying,’ Ohio University student demands
A senior journalism major at Ohio University isn’t too keen on freedom of expression, because she calls for...
The hack, which replaced the website’s homepage with a shady picture of a man shrouded in darkness and an Arabic poem, is being referred to by some as an “electronic jihad.”
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Electronic Jihad? USC College Republican’s website hacked
When USC College Republicans President Jennifer Massey...
He apparently forgot about The Streisand Effect: any attempt to hide, censor, or cover up information only makes that information even more widely publicized.
UO student leader regrets giving free publicity to blogs that mock him
Litigation expert says blogs could have First Amendment claim if shut down by university
Syracuse University’s fight with its...
Someone somewhere is writing a list of things you can never wear, say, or do without being offensive. Eventually, everything will be on that list.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
University of Minnesota apologizes for Fiesta-themed student bowling party
The University of Minnesota has apologized for a “Galactic Fiesta” bowling party...
It’s apparently an “ableist slur”, as are, I would assume, “blind”, “deaf”, and “wheelchair-bound.”
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
You can’t say ‘crazy’ at Smith College: Student paper replaces with ‘ableist slur’
There’s a long list of words you can’t say at Smith College – or apparently reproduce in the...
How exactly will they “kick this university’s ass”? Your guess is as good as mine.
Hunter Swogger at The College Fix has the story:
Students pledge to shut down campus if minority enrollment doesn’t increase
Students, community activists hold ‘public tribunal on hostile campus climate’ at University of Michigan
Disgruntled students at the University of Michigan have ...
So principals can now suspend white students as usual, but to suspend a “black or brown” student, they’d have to go through the superintendent first.
Derek Hunter at The Daily Caller reports:
Separate And Unequal: Minnesota School District To Review All Suspensions Of ‘Black And Brown’ Students
Minneapolis Public Schools are implementing a new...
Greg Piper at The College Fix shows how Penn is wreaking havoc on due process in sexual assault cases:
Penn ‘single-investigator model’ and training stack the deck against accused
As universities take it upon themselves – with less-than-subtle prodding from the Department of Education – to set up alternative judicial processes for sexual-assault...
He also cites “racist prerequisites” such as being expected to know algebra before attending university.
Ishmael Bishop at The Daily Tar Heel writes:
Column: Unequal upon arrival at UNC
After three years of attending UNC, an institution historically built upon the backs of countless unnamed black bodies, a few facts have come to...
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges recently commissioned a report which said that, due to high costs and “lazy” governance, academia has lost the trust of the public.
Michael Cipriano at The College Fix has the story:
‘Lazy’ and ‘self-serving’ board governance is ruining higher ed, commission says
Dysfunctional governance of...
Just more proof that we should have professionals handling these things, not a bunch of poorly-trained academics.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
‘Hammered’ yet ‘enthusiastic’? Yale sexual-assault investigation revealed
The Yale Daily News has a must-read deep dive into one sexual-assault investigation at...
Apparently their gaydar is working, because LGBT admissions to Penn have seen a marked rise.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Penn practices its gaydar in reading student applications
The Daily Pennsylvanian has one of the creepier articles I’ve seen on college applications: Adm...
The survey defined “offensive body language” and “being continually asked out for dates after you already said ‘No'” as harassment and “criticizing my […] attractiveness” as coercion.
Matt Lamb at The College Fix has the story:
SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVEY: Demographics, definitions, phrasing could skew results
A new report on sexual assault by University of...
Feminists at DePaul University say that the male-led ‘Consent the D’ campaign was “flippant” and “triggered victims and survivors of sexual violence.”
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Lesson for bros who want to promote affirmative consent: Don’t make T-shirts
A male-led campaign to promote affirmative consent for sex at DePaul...
Yes, that’s why we’d rather not have sex acts demeaned and paraded out in the open: because we hate gay people. This explains everything.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Harvard University sex week organizer defends anal sex lesson
Although Harvard Sex Week organizers did not respond to repeated requests by ...
After the recent vote by Dartmouth faculty to radically change the college’s Greek system, some students speak up about the importance of men-only and women-only organizations on campus.
Sandor Farkas at The Dartmouth Review has the story:
The Single-Sex Greek System
Over Homecoming, the Class Connections program hosted social events between current students and...
Despite the fact that “there was never any evidence — nor any effort made to discover evidence”, Yale’s rape tribunal nearly ruined former quarterback, now Harvard law student Patrick Witt’s life.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Former Yale QB indicts campus rape tribunal for trashing his reputation
It’s not just...
Student Senate Vice President Miles Sisk has reportedly contacted the cyber police, saying that consequences will never be the same.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
News flash to student senators: Being mocked on Tumblr is not ‘cyber-bullying’
So here’s my conflict of interest: I’m a native Oregonian and my dad...
Joseph Asch at the Dartblog writes of the recent Dartmouth faculty vote to abolish Greek life, and questions why the school’s president — previously seen as a proponent of the Greek system — did not offer one word of counterargument:
And Where Was Phil?
Perhaps the most striking aspect of the faculty meeting,...
When did modern culture become so out and out obsessed with sex? You can’t even go to Harvard, supposedly the pinnacle of human knowledge and understanding, without having sex paraded around in front of you like a strip club.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Harvard University workshop to teach...
How hard is it to just apologize?
Daniel Mael at Truth Revolt has the story:
Kent St. Professor: ‘There is But One Path to Liberation—Daily Blows Against the Empire’
A Kent State University professor has resigned from the editorial board of an academic journal following Watchdog’s publication of a letter in which he accused...
