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Campus Marxists Spreading Movement to Limit First Amendment

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Posted by    Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 11:00am

This is happening across the country.

The Blaze reports.

Campus Thuggery Spreads as College Marxists Shun First Amendment

Well, so much for the First Amendment.

Tossing sanity to the wind, college kids behaving as Marxists at so-called places of higher learning around the nation have broken free their classroom constraints to wander their various respective...

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Clarion University Cancels Play Over White Actors

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Posted by    Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 9:30am

We’ve actually come to this. Political correctness is ruining the performing arts, too.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

Clarion University forced to cancel play over actors’ race

Student actors and the stage crew at Clarion University arrived Tuesday evening for one of the final rehearsals before next week’s campus opening of “Jesus in India” only...

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Black Hunger Striker Protesting ‘White Privilege’ Is Privileged

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Posted by    Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 8:00am

His parents own a own lakeside home worth $1.1 million.

The College Fix reports.

Parents of black hunger striker protesting ‘white privilege’ own lakeside home worth $1.1 million

The University of Missouri grad student who led a hunger strike against what he contends is systemic racial oppression on his campus comes from a very...

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Marco Rubio Hits Hillary on Her Close Ties to Teachers’ Unions

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 6:30pm

“Hillary Clinton, who’s probably going to be the Democratic nominee, is not going to be able to be an innovator on K-12 because she’s fully owned by the teachers union when it comes to K-12 education,” Rubio said.

From the Washington Examiner:

Rubio: Clinton ‘fully owned by the teachers’ union’

Republican presidential candidate Sen....

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Amherst Students Demand President Denounce Colonial Mascot

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 5:00pm

The entitlement generation continues its nationwide temper tantrum.

Slate reports:

Amherst Students Demand That President Denounce Goofy Colonial Mascot by 5 P.M.

All across the country right now college campuses are discussing serious issues involving the United States’ history of racism. Troubling threats of violence have even led to arrests in Missouri, where it...

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Student Govt. at University in Minnesota Claims Remembering 9/11 Would Violate Safe Space

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 3:30pm

If you thought the news from college campuses this week couldn’t get any worse, you were wrong.

Kasey Carpenter reports at Campus Reform.

UMN student govt: 9/11 remembrance would violate our safe space

On Tuesday, November 10, the Minnesota Student Association (MSA)–the undergraduate student government at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UMN)– rejected a...

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Writer for Ms. Magazine Compares Rape on College Campuses to ISIS

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 2:00pm

With the piece below, we have officially moved into the category of dangerously stupid. How was this garbage allowed to be published?

The writer, Amy Lauricella, clearly needs to do more research.

Institutionalized Rape: It’s Not Just an ISIS Problem

The horrors of the Islamic State are becoming increasingly well known. This month, The...

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College Is Turning Students Into Giant Babies

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 12:30pm

Aren’t students supposed to be getting more mature?

The Blaze reports.

College Might Be Turning Your Kid Into A Giant Baby

Trigger warning.

Young people are entering college as budding adults and being immediately turned back into babies. That’s basically all I’ve gleaned from the fascist antics at the University of Missouri this week, although...

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Radical Campus Protests Smack of Proto-Fascism

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 11:00am

In a new column at the Fiscal Times, Ed Morrissey notes that what we’re seeing on college campuses right now is reminiscent of a darker time in world history.

Yale, Mizzou and Others—Training a Generation of Proto-Fascists

After a claim that someone had created a fecal swastika on a bathroom wall – another...

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Ithaca College Demonstrators Protest Against President

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:30am

Hundreds gathered on the campus to witness the protest.

Ithaca Journal reports.

‘We are here, and we demand change’ say IC protesters

The chant: “Tom Rochon. No confidence” echoed across campus Wednesday, shouted by at least a thousand students who took part in a “Solidarity Walk Out” at Ithaca College.

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Student Can’t Explain How to Pay for Entitlements College Protesters Are Demanding

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Posted by    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 8:00am

This video is so painful to watch. An organizer of the #MillionStudentMarch is asked by Neil Cavuto of FOX Business who is going to pay for the free college and other perks these students are demanding.

Her whole argument is taking money from the rich and giving it to the government. If...

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Texas A&M Files Suit Against Indianapolis Colts for ’12th Man’ Trademark Infringement

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 6:30pm

Learning nothing from the Seattle Seahawks, the Indianapolis Colts also tried to commandeer one of the Aggies’ most sacred traditions.

KHOU reports:

Texas A&M sues Indianapolis Colts over ’12th Man’ trademark

COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M has filed a lawsuit against the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts seeking to protect its “12th Man” trademark rights.

Texas A&M...

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Glenn Reynolds: College Students Are Showing We Need to Raise The Voting Age

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 5:00pm

Our friend Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has written a new column for USA Today which is well worth reading.

After Yale, Mizzou, raise the voting age — to 25

In 1971, the United States ratified the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. In retrospect, th...

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Imagine What The Civil Rights Movement Would’ve Looked Like With ‘Safe Spaces’

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 3:30pm

It probably wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Stephen Miller writes for National Review:

What if Civil-Rights-Era Protesters Had Demanded Safe Spaces?

Much has been made this week of a University of Missouri student-activist group’s demanding everything from their university president’s resignation (he obliged) to the wall...

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University of Missouri Prof Resigns Over Outrage for Failing to Cancel Exam

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 2:00pm

Wait, you mean students at the University of Missouri are expected to take exams when a protest is going on? What an outrage.

Peter Hasson reports at Campus Reform.

Mizzou prof. resigns following outrage over his refusal to cancel exam

Dr. Dale Brigham, considered one of the most beloved professors at the University of...

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Black Students at Cornell Demand Divestment from Prisons

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 12:30pm

They kicked off their divestment movement by delivering a letter to the president.

The Cornell Daily Sun reports.

Black Students United Calls for Prison Divestment

Twelve students from Black Students United — a student-run umbrella organization representing the interests of black Cornellians — entered President Elizabeth Garrett’s office Tuesday to submit a letter outlining...

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Conservative Professor Becomes Target at Vanderbilt University

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 11:00am

Professor Carol Swain is a conservative Christian so she must be a bigot, right?

Trey Sanchez reports at Truth Revolt.

Now at Vanderbilt: Conservative Professor Targeted by Offended Students

The safe spaces of students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee are being threatened by a black conservative professor of law who is outspoken about...

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President of the University of Missouri Resigns For What He Didn’t Do

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 9:30am

The students who drove him out have been complaining that Wolfe did not respond forcibly enough in the wake of certain racist incidents on campus.

Ricochet reports.

The Theater of White Guilt

The President of the University of Missouri resigned in a dramatic, televised speech this morning. He must have done something really bad,...

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Viral Video Parodies Extreme Political Correctness on College Campuses

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Posted by    Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 8:00am

This short film is making the rounds on the internet for its harsh yet accurate portrayal of the extreme left wing political correctness which has taken hold on so many college campuses.

Watch it all below.

 
 
 
 

Mizzou Students Asked to Report ‘Hateful’ Speech

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 6:30pm

Well this just gets better and better.

Fox News reports:

Students at University of Missouri asked to report ‘hateful,’ ‘hurtful’ speech

Students at the University of Missouri are being encouraged to report “incidents of hateful and/or hurtful speech” to the University Police Department, according to an email sent out by campus police officials...

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Prager University – Student Debt is a Game of Loans

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 5:00pm

In the latest video from Prager University, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA explains how politicians and universities wash each other’s hands with cash from taxpayers.

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Should We Stop Paying for College?

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Posted by    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 3:30pm

If higher education is nothing more than an extended adolescent playground for the emotionally sheltered, then heck yes.

Andrew McCarthy writes at National Review:

Stop Paying for College

I have a proposal: Let’s turn the whole damn campus into a “space of healing.”

Such “spaces,” we learn in Rich’s excellent column on the...

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