According to an op-ed by the Penn Democrats, as far as abortion goes Europe is a free for all and America should follow suit. However, in reality, Europe has on the whole far stricter regulation of abortion than the United States.
Greg Piper at the College Fix has the story:
Penn Democrats think...
Old news for any Catholics in the room.
Michelle Reed at The College Fix has the story:
Physics professor tells students scientific evidence points to a ‘designer’
A physics professor at the University of Oklahoma who often spends his time studying smashed subatomic particles at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN laboratory in Switzerland...
Is this actually a problem, or are students just too sensitive nowadays? I honestly can’t tell anymore.
Tommy Super at Old Gold & Black has the story:
Yik Yak remains controversial on campus
About a year ago, Yik Yak, an anonymous social media smart phone application, exploded in the Wake Forest community, and students...
Why does the federal government need to dictate this relationship? Beats me.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Federal law strips parents’ right to find out how their kid is faring in college
It’s shocking to think that parents can pay anywhere from $10,000 to $60,000 a year to send their...
The most recent column by Julius Kairey at the Cornell Daily Sun does not explicitly address the smear campaign against him last month, but it does call out campus leftists as intolerant bullies:
THROWDOWN THURSDAY: The Hypocrisy of Cornell’s Political Bullies
Political bullies on campus are defined by two characteristics. First, the fervent...
A student at the University of New Mexico used phrases like “perverse attraction to the same sex” and “barren womb” when critiquing a lesbian film, and her teacher kicked her out of the class for hate speech. I can understand the reaction to “perverse”, but since when is “barren” hate speech?
Mike...
Timothy Boatwright, who was born female but identifies as male, got along perfectly well at the all-women Wellesley College, until Wellesley students decided he couldn’t be Multicultural Affairs Coordinator: they said it felt “inappropriate to have a white man there.”
Katherine Timpf at The National Review has the story:
Students: Transgender Woman Can’t...
I’ll take “That’s totally going to happen at a school where 50% of students are Greek affiliated” for 1000 Alex.
The Editorial Board at The Dartmouth writes:
Verbum Ultimum: Abolish the Greek System
As the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” steering committee prepares its recommendations for College President Phil Hanlon and the Board of Trustees, we urge...
After asking students “Hey, do you think big government sucks?” outside of Broward College’s ‘Free Speech Zone’, Lauren Cooley, an activist for Turning Point USA, was forced to leave the campus or be arrested for trespassing.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix reports:
Conservative activist kicked off campus after asking if ‘big...
The student who caused the scare said she did it to avoid being dropped from a class. That’s right kids, “I’ve got Ebola” is officially the new “My dog ate my homework.”
R. Stickney and Andie Adams of NBC San Diego Report:
Southwestern College Student Recants Story After Evacuation
A Southern California community college...
Our friend Hans Bader, a former official in the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights who handled Title IX violations, writes at Liberty Unyielding about the potential legal consequences of California’s new “Yes Means Yes” Law:
State-mandated dirty talk in California: Governor signs unconstitutional SB 967
Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown...
But wait, I thought “Yes means yes” empowered women?
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
Law professor blasts ‘yes means yes’: ‘Ridiculous, unfair, infantilizes women’
A prominent law professor is speaking out against California’s new “yes means yes” law, calling it “confusingly complex,” “contrary to both common sense...
I smell a contradiction with official Church doctrine.
Matt Lamb at the College Fix reports:
Catholic university DePaul adds ‘Queer Peers’ mentorship program
DePaul University in Chicago, the country’s largest Catholic school, is launching a new mentorship program for LGBT students called “Queer Peers.”
The program “connects current DePaul students with newly enrolled or newly out...
Rand Paul walks a fine line between attempting to court the “Young Outsiders” (fiscally conservative and socially liberal millennials) voting bloc and outright contradicting himself, saying he is “100% pro-life” but “supports the morning-after pill.”
Christopher White at The College Fix has the story:
Prolife Rand Paul to college students: ‘I am not...
The professor, Doron Ben-Atar, eventually discovered that his opposition to anti-semitism had somehow got him charged with “religious discrimination.” Of course, this was after the university dragged his name and reputation through the mud.
Ben-Atar writes in Tablet Magazine:
Kafka Was the Rage
The email arrived on the last Friday afternoon of the spring term...
‘Slacktivism’ is taking over: SUNY Canton’s newest campaign to fight campus sexual assault asks students to post selfies with the hashtag “#itsonus”. What exactly this achieves is anyone’s guess.
North Country Now reports:
SUNY Canton launches sexual assault awareness campaign with ‘selfie’ challenge
SUNY Canton is joining a growing movement to combat sexual assault...
Afterwards, dozens of students and student groups joined together to create a mural to stand against the signs.
Stephanie Addenbrooke and Rachel Siegel at the Yale Daily News have the story:
Swastikas drawn on Old Campus
Three students huddled outside Entryway B of Durfee Hall just before midnight on Monday, dish soap and lemon-scented...
Sam Leanza at The College Conservative explains how Twitter has made it much easier for the population to participate in political action, but has also made it a whole lot worse at doing so:
Social Media and Social Unrest
Much like Apple has revolutionized the way we buy music, social media has changed...
It wasn’t Columbus that made Berkeley start celebrating “Indigenous People’s Day” on Columbus Day, but a controversial Native-American themed play, which some students believed depicted Native Americans at the time of manifest destiny as “asking for it.”
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Controversial Native American play, not Columbus, sparks...
A journalist at MSU’s State News somehow interpreted that the football stadium’s booing of Obamas appearance in an “It’s On Us” campaign video as approval of campus rape, and not just the dislike of an unpopular president.
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Michigan State football fans chastised for booing...
The fact that one student used a racial slur is a sign of a racial crisis, and even if such an event is a hoax, that’s also… a sign of a racial crisis?
Dave Huber at the College Fix has the story:
The never-ending ‘need’ for college ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ efforts
Syracuse University higher-ups...
Apparently, the reason most white people “gun up” is to confront racial anxieties.
Here’s more from the College Fix:
Prof: Black gun rights advocates would be treated differently than whites
Professor Charles Gallagher of La Salle University believes the public would be a lot more suspicious of a group of armed blacks walking through,...
