Law schools are having a really hard time with Ferguson, aren’t they?
Fox News reports.
UCLA law professor learns Ferguson-related exam question taboo
Law school exams often present legal conundrums ripped from headlines of the day, but one UCLA law professor is apologizing for basing a test question on what is apparently a taboo...
Following disturbances erupted during an anti-rape march, fraternities and sororities at San Diego State University must have their members undergo sexual assault prevention training before they can resume regular social activities.
We’ve got a problem – there’s a problem at universities all across the country – with sexual assault and so we...
Chelsea Gruenwald at The College Conservative proposes that, when it comes to rape, the real victims of victim blaming are male rape victims:
Rape Culture and the Real Victim Shaming
Last week actor Shia LaBeouf revealed that he was raped earlier this year during an art performance. The veracity of these claims are not...
How charitable of them. It is Christmas time, after all.
FOX News reported.
University of Maine says candy cane ban a ‘misunderstanding’
The University of Maine will allow the halls to be decked with candy canes, after all.
After an administrator sent out an e-mail to employees telling them “religious-themed” decorations — which he said...
Ohio students are showing that you don’t have to go to law school in order to learn the rules of “lawfare”.
This may be a new approach for students who sue their colleges for punishing them in campus sexual misconduct investigations: claim the process violates the state constitution.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that an athlete and...
Well, what a surprise. A leftist organization jumps on the bandwagon of a leftist cause.
Jonathan Marks of Minding the Campus reports.
Student Workers Vote to Support the Israel Boycott
The UC Student-Workers Union represents “over 13,000 student-workers across the University of California system.” They are affiliated with the United Auto Workers. The union...
Dartmouth student Caroline Hsu shares her thoughts on the “Bamboo Ceiling” that, among other things, sparked a lawsuit by Asian-American students against Harvard University.
She takes a look...
As only Ann Coulter can.
The College Rape Club
Sorry this column is late. I got raped again on the way home. Twice. I should clarify — by “raped,” I mean that two seductive Barry White songs came on the radio, which, according to the University of Virginia, constitutes rape.
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT!
Even...
I guess the officials couldn’t find any way to blame George W. Bush for declining enrollment.
The University of Missouri-St. Louis has enacted a hiring freeze due to “smaller-than-expected” student enrollment that campus officials believe is linked to the fatal police shooting in nearby Ferguson, Reuters reported.
n a campuswide email, Chancellor Thomas...
Because what graduate students really need to do are protesting, wallowing in grievances, and paying more fees!
Seeking greater rights and recognition for their work as research and teaching assistants, graduate student workers at Columbia are organizing to become a union.
More than 1,700 student workers have signed cards supporting the effort since...
This is the third straight year. Can you say higher ed bubble?
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
College Student Count Continues Slide
President Obama could be the first U.S. president since World War II to see college enrollments drop during his tenure, as new data shows that...
Maybe the tides are turning in favor of free speech on campus.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Michigan State stands up to speech bullies demanding George Will’s disinvitation
George Will won’t be disinvited from speaking at Michigan State University despite protests by some students and a petition drive, provoked by Will’s...
The debate began anew after a recent shooting in the FSU library.
Mary Lou Byrd of the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Concealed Carry Closer to Reality on Colleges in Florida, Texas
College students in Florida and Texas saw actions taken this week that would allow for concealed carry of firearms on college campuses on...
Brown University Co-Ed Caitlin Dorman pens a hairy tale of a failed experiment in feminism in the Daily Herald blog.
My name is Caitlin, my preferred gender pronouns are she, her, and hers, and I didn’t shave my legs last month.
I know that many women do not identify with the practice of...
The protesters were shouting “no police state, no NSA.”
At some point, someone has got to stand up to this anti-free speech trend on campus. These idiotic student protesters obviously had no idea that Thiel is a Libertarian who opposes government overreach in the form of the NSA.
Joel B. Pollak of...
What would you do to get a bunch of angry college kids to leave after they crashed a party at your house?
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Penn president joins students in Ferguson protest
University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann ended up joining student protesters in a “die-in” yesterday after they...
You would never know this if you only paid attention to all the hyperventilating about “rape culture” on campus.
From The Federalist.
New DOJ Data On Sexual Assaults: College Students Are Actually Less Likely To Be Victimized
A new report on sexual assault released today by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officially puts...
But see, people are only willing to listen to statisticians when the statistics support their conclusions.
Greg Piper at the College Fix has the story:
Sexual-assault study authors disavow how their work is portrayed by activists
One of the more noteworthy parts of Emily Yoffe’s thorough analysis in Slate of the campus response to sexual-assault...
The students are part of the school’s Lacrosse team. Isn’t Lacrosse based on a Native American sport?
CBS 13 WGME reported.
Bowdoin College to discipline student athletes for dressing in Native American costumes
Fourteen student-athletes at Bowdoin College are facing disciplinary action after they dressed up as Native Americans for a Thanksgiving party.
Tim Foster,...
I know one professor who is probably going to be attending a diversity training program soon!
The activism sparked by an art display depicting a Ku Klux Klan robe should be a catalyst to make the University of Iowa more welcoming to minorities, students and employees said Tuesday. Many blacks and other...
The professor retired in 2009 and was teaching online courses.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reported.
MIT Professor Fired For Sexually Harassing Student
The lectures of one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) most popular professors have started disappearing from the Internet after the university found that he was using the school’s...
The privacy rights of the employees at one university campus have just been “smoked”.
University of Missouri Health System is rolling out a new “nicotine-free hiring policy” that forbids new employees from using nicotine – on or off the clock.
Come Jan. 1, the system will no longer hire people who use any...
