Students from Harvard who want to school to divest from fossil fuels staged a protest in which they blocked entrances to Massachusetts Hall.
Video and report via the Harvard Crimson.
Calling for Divestment, Protesters Blockade Mass. Hall
Members and supporters of the activist group Divest Harvard began a planned blockade of three entrances to...
Student protestors projected the words ‘Columbia Protects Rapists’ onto campus buildings.
Buzzfeed News reports:
“Columbia Protects Rapists” Projected Onto University’s Administration Building
Columbia University’s No Red Tape student group protested the school’s handling of alleged sexual assaults on campus Sunday night by projecting “Columbia Protects Rapists” on the main administr...
If we make community college “free” who’s really going to pay for it?
Doesn’t someone always pay?
From The Hill.
Biden: Make community college ‘free’ like high school
“It’s simple, folks — two years of community college should become as free and universal as high school is today if we’re to make this economic resurgence...
Red numbers mysteriously tagged across campus have officials baffled.
Joshua Lloyd reports for SCNow.com:
State Law Enforcement Division, FBI investigating vandalism at Francis Marion University
FLORENCE, S.C. – The state law enforcement division and the federal bureau of investigations have been called to investigate acts of vandalism on the Francis Marion University Campus.
Campus officials...
Does anyone believe for a minute that there’s a ‘bigotry’ problem among students at UCLA?
Robert Wilde of Breitbart reports.
UCLA Mandates Diversity Class Because Students ‘Afflicted With Bigotry’
After twenty years of lobbying for a mandatory diversity class for all students, the University California Los Angeles faculty finally got their way.
Friday the university...
It looks like Ted Cruz’s interest in the constitution goes back to his days as an undergrad.
Katherine Oh of the Daily Princetonian.
Ted Cruz ’92: Grassroots phenomenon who once seemed destined for the ivory tower
While many now identify Ted Cruz ’92 as the classic example of a conservative populist politician, few still...
Good thing it wasn’t a statue of someone revered by Democrats or these students might be in real trouble.
The FOX News Insider reports.
College Won’t Punish Vandals Who Defaced Statues of Reagan, Thatcher
Statues of historic figures like Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Ayn Rand were defaced at a California college campus...
Due process for college students? What an American idea.
Joseph Cohn of the FIRE blog reports.
New Arkansas Law Gives Students Right to Counsel in Disciplinary Appeals
The College Fix reports there was applause at the end.
UMich screening of ‘American Sniper’ packs room, garners applause as credits roll
Movie screened under police presence, talks from campus ‘Bias Response Team’ officials
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – University of Michigan students thronged to the campus union on Friday night for the weekly UMix Late...
Harvard is hoping to elicit a bevy of respondents in their latest campus survey.
The Harvard Crimson reports:
University Prepares To Launch Sexual Conduct Climate Survey
As Harvard prepares to launch a sexual conduct climate survey on April 12, administrators are emphasizing the confidentiality of the poll and are executing an aggressive publicity push...
This sounds like a logical and well thought out position.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller.
Professor: If Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Executed For Murdering This Little Boy, THE TERRORISTS WIN
A professor at Northeastern University has declared that a federal court should not sentence guilty Boston Mar...
94 counts, to be exact. This man is in serious trouble.
Lohud reports.
Fired Nyack College softball coach facing sex charges involving players
SOUTH NYACK – The former head women’s softball coach at Nyack College was charged Thursday with 94 counts of improper sexual contact with 13 players at the Christian school.
Kurt Ludwigsen, who...
The FIRE blog points to a few recent examples of free speech and due process violations in higher education.
Colleges Rush to Violate Free Speech, Due Process in Response to Speech Controversies
PHILADELPHIA, April 9, 2015—In the wake of the University of Oklahoma’s unconstitutional decision to summarily expel students involved in a racist...
What kind of class activity is this for elementary students?
Fox Philly reports.
Teacher Suspended Following Get Well Cards To Convicted Cop Killer
ORANGE, NJ – An elementary school teacher has been suspended for having her third-grade students write “get well” letters to an inmate convicted of killing a cop.
In a statement to NJ.com,...
Expose students to ideas they might not like? What an innovative concept.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Princeton faculty take a stand against sheltering students from offensive ideas
Professors declare: ‘It is not the proper role of the university to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable,...
Afflicted with inoperable brain cancer, Lauren Hill played women’s basketball at Mount St. Joseph’s in spite of her condition. Friday, it was reported that Hill lost her battle with cancer.
Shannon Russell reports for USA Today:
Lauren Hill...
Rand Paul will be paying the University of Iowa a visit.
Darshan Patel reports for KCRG:
White House hopeful Rand Paul to speak at University of Iowa
IOWA CITY – Presidential candidate Rand Paul will address students and the community Friday morning on the University of Iowa campus.
As part of the Stand with Rand...
Sex without a condom was unthinkable to most college students in the 80’s and 90’s. Not so much today.
NPR reported.
Why Is Condom-Use Suddenly Dropping Among College Sophomores?
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
There’s research about sex in college – new research – and also on the precautions students of different ages and from different economic...
Events from 1990 might have just caught up to an Emmy-nominated actor.
USA Today reports.
Hamm was accused in violent college hazing
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mad Men star Jon Hamm took part in a violent university hazing in 1990 at the University of Texas that led to criminal charges, according to court and...
I think Danielle Douglas-Gabriel of the Washington Post may be onto something here.
College tuition is getting more expensive. Here’s who’s actually to blame.
In an op-ed in the New York Times over the weekend, University of Colorado law professor Paul F. Campos offered a provocative answer to the frequently asked question: why...
Clearly a terrible decision by students.
Campus Reform reports.
Reagan, Thatcher busts defaced at Chapman University
Students at Chapman University awoke Wednesday morning to find many of the statues around campus strewn with caution tape and defaced with accusations of “racism,” “homophobia,” and “neo-liberalist ideology.”
The statues, depicting historical figures such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret...
Congratulations to Stefan Stoykov, who couldn’t even speak English when he came to America at the age of 8.
The Indy Star reports.
North Central senior accepted to every Ivy League college
On his first day of school in the second grade at Nora Elementary, Stefan Stoykov sat in the corner of the classroom,...
