The problem with this idea is that the diversity that liberal academics love to go on about — racial and cultural diversity — is at best a poor substitute for the type of diversity that actually matters in a liberal arts education: diversity of thought.
Charles C.W. Jang at the Dartmouth Review...
According to a few radical Dartmouth professors, Greek life is a bastion of “hazing, ritual vomiting, binge drinking, denigration of women, sexual violence, homophobia, racism, hierarchy, conformity, secrecy, and loyalty to the brotherhood.”
Joseph Asch at the Dartblog writes:
Radical Faculty Go After Greeks
Hard on the heels of The D’s editorial urging the...
Apparently the course, which purports to teach students about the medical process of abortion, relies exclusively on multiple choice exams and two peer-reviewed essays.
Genevieve McCarthy at the College Fix has the story:
University’s online abortion course could endanger women’s health, experts say
The University of California-San Francisco’s new online abortion course raises serious...
According to Roderick Cook at The Daily Pennsylvanian, robbery is just a “crime of survival”, and we must blame gentrification and capitalism, not the actual offender:
Reframing violence
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “violence at Penn”?
Many of us think of interpersonal physical violence that occurs around our school, such...
Even in a legislative body as tiny and ineffectual as student government can’t have racial or gender quotas.
Greg Piper at the College Fix reports:
Student senate can’t ‘set aside’ women or minority spots, attorney says
In response to The College Fix‘s post about Ohio University’s student senate considering whether to triple the number of women-only...
Maybe the Free Speech Movement was actually good for something.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
UC-Berkeley stands up for speech, ignoring Bill Maher disinvitation vote by students
Is this a turning point for universities which previously chickened out of featuring controversial speakers for graduation ceremonies?
First Miami University s...
According to Jacob Kohlhepp at The College Fix, the UCLA student government has found a loophole in university policy about political ethics and is exploiting it to “push a progressive political agenda.”
UCLA abuses student fees to push progressive causes ahead of election
At UCLA, student fees and taxpayer money is used by...
Remember back in the early twentieth century when a group of women protested gender deciding what positions you could hold and jobs you could have? What was that group of women called again?
Maygan Beeler at The Post reports:
Student Senate to reform senate elections at Ohio University
With midterm elections rapidly approaching for candidates...
The source of the handout, given to 8-year-old students at a Tennessee elementary school, is apparently the Nation of Islam.
Todd Starnes at Fox News has the story:
School’s Nation of Islam handout paints Founding Fathers as racists
The mother of an eight-year-old wants to know why...
Yes, you read that right: there are people who are not only okay with killing unborn babies, but born babies as well. Where does it end?
Mairead McArdle at the College Fix has the story:
TRENDING: More college students support post-birth abortion
A trend seen by prolife activists that frequently engage college students on campuses...
A “Jail ‘N’ Bail” Event put on by a sorority at Northwestern was canceled because a few students complained about it “making light of mass incarceration.”
Jeanne Kuang at The Daily Northwestern reports:
Kappa ‘Jail N’ Bail’ philanthropy event canceled after criticism
Organizers canceled a philanthropy event featuring a mock jail hosted by...
Do students these days not have anything better to protest?
Heyun Jeong at The Daily Californian has the story:
Students spring into opposition after Bill Maher announced as keynote speaker
In response to an announcement last week that comedian Bill Maher would speak at UC Berkeley’s fall commencement, an online petition started circulating Thursday...
Colleges have begun using FERPA as an excuse for keeping silent an time they get caught doing something questionable.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
University of Houston wrongly invokes student-privacy law in sex assault case
The Student Press Law Center’s latest example of college administrators misusing the Family Educational Rights...
First, they came for the Redskins…
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
Students say spear-wielding Aztec mascot offensive, demand its decommission
Some students at San Diego State University are pushing to scrap their “Aztec Warrior” mascot and its use of a spear, claiming they perpetuate “harmful stereotypes of Native Americans” and...
No, this isn’t a headline stolen from the Onion.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Rabbits given Swedish massages at Ohio State in $387,000 taxpayer-funded study
Ohio State University used a $387,000 National Institutes of Health grant to study the benefits of Swedish m...
In fact, anti-semitic acts occur about 8 times as often as the anti-Muslim acts that academia just loves to harp on.
Malcolm A. Kline at Accuracy in Academia has the story:
Anti-Semitism in Action
When faced with a choice between confronting two evils, elites—particularly academic ones—usually focus on...
Dave Huber at The College Fix argues that maybe we’ve gone a bit too soft on public school kids, and that, just maybe, police intervention is warranted:
Schools resort to police too often … for ‘routine’ discipline?
A recent article at Education News.org caught my attention: “Police: Schools Start Path to Criminal...
At least they’re creative?
Emily Yavitch at The College Fix has the story:
Students hold ‘Shit In’ to demand more gender-neutral bathrooms
As students walked through the main thoroughfare at San Diego State University on Tuesday they were greeted by students with their pants down sitting atop a row of toilets.
Such an appearance in...
A recent poll by You.Gov says 51% of Democrats are okay with restricting “hate speech.” The problem is, what exactly is hate speech? The answer: anything that I don’t like.
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Poll: Most Democrats support curtailing free speech
In a recent You.Gov poll, 51 percent of Democrats...
Nine staff members of UNC-Chapel Hill are being terminated or put under review for orchestrating an elaborate system of bogus classes and inflated grades that allowed student athletes to continue playing.
Dan Kane and Jane Stancill at the New Observer report:
Folt: Nine being terminated or under disciplinary review as result of report...
I see, it’s Catholic only in name, not in practice. That clears things up.
Dominic Lynch at The College Fix has the story:
Catholic university launches pagan student club
Loyola University Chicago recently christened a new pagan student club, with its student organizer saying the group aims to help pupils at the private Catholic college...
Sending “annoying” or “offensive” messages to others is now harassment. To paraphrase Tyler, the Creator (a popular rapper with the kids these days): “Just turn off your computer man.”
Christopher White at the College Fix has the story:
Syracuse Internet policy makes everything ‘harassment,’ student reps say
Policy language should focus on ‘threats of...
