Student Senate Vice President Miles Sisk has reportedly contacted the cyber police, saying that consequences will never be the same.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
News flash to student senators: Being mocked on Tumblr is not ‘cyber-bullying’
So here’s my conflict of interest: I’m a native Oregonian and my dad...
Don’t enough people already think college is a scam? Higher education doesn’t need news like this.
Via ABC News.
Woman Gets 16 Years for Running Fake University
A San Francisco Bay Area woman was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for running what prosecutors s...
At first I thought this article I linked was particularly poorly written because it is not until the end of it where the writer explains what the students were protesting about.
Then I realized I was too harsh on the writer. The students don’t have anything to be protesting about. They’re just...
The Koch Brothers give millions of dollars to colleges and student groups.
If students who have been brainwashed by Democrats don’t want their money, the Kochs should comply and cut them all off without another cent.
Kaitlin Mulhere of Inside Higher Ed reports.
‘UnKoch My Campus’
Students on nearly 30 campuses around the country called...
Joseph Asch at the Dartblog writes of the recent Dartmouth faculty vote to abolish Greek life, and questions why the school’s president — previously seen as a proponent of the Greek system — did not offer one word of counterargument:
And Where Was Phil?
Perhaps the most striking aspect of the faculty meeting,...
No one seems to have a sense of humor anymore.
The Stupid Girl blog reported.
I guess it’s an oxymoron: Female academics outraged at “sexy Ph.D.” Halloween costume
How to get a doctorate in no sense of humor:
The “Delicious Women’s Phd [sic] Darling Sexy Costume,” sold by Amazon, received a lot of virtual eye...
The worth of a college degree is derived from the person standing behind it and his/her achievements and potential, not the piece of paper itself.
From CNN:
My college degree is worthless
Rosalyn Harris, an unemployed single mother who had never gone to college, thought getting a degree would be the ticket to a...
Remember when going to college meant learning to think for yourself?
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
Taxpayer-Funded Florida College Gave Students SCRIPTED ANSWERS For Scott-Crist Debate
Students who attended the Oct. 15 debate between Florida gubernatorial candidates Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democrat Charlie Crist on the campus of Broward College were...
When did modern culture become so out and out obsessed with sex? You can’t even go to Harvard, supposedly the pinnacle of human knowledge and understanding, without having sex paraded around in front of you like a strip club.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Harvard University workshop to teach...
Whatever happened to the accused being presumed innocent until proven guilty?
Matt Lamb of the College Fix reports.
University trains faculty to ‘assume’ sexual-assault accusers tell the truth
ANALYSIS
In an effort to help faculty and staff provide useful information to students who report sexual assaults to them, Ohio University is encouraging them to side...
This crazy story out of Mexico reads like the plot to a spaghetti western.
Gang-affiliated police raid a Mexican town, and while the mayor manages to escape 43 college students go missing–for a month now. There is suspicion that the mayor ordered the kidnapping of the students because he didn’t want them...
This new video from Prager University uses an article by economist, Kip Hagopian to explain the progressive income tax through a story about three brothers.
Here’s more information.
Course Description
“The Progressive Income Tax” is one of those economic terms that gets bandied about, but few actually know what it means or how it...
How hard is it to just apologize?
Daniel Mael at Truth Revolt has the story:
Kent St. Professor: ‘There is But One Path to Liberation—Daily Blows Against the Empire’
A Kent State University professor has resigned from the editorial board of an academic journal following Watchdog’s publication of a letter in which he accused...
Gee, I wonder why? Could it be because Republicans are expected to win?
I don’t remember anyone making this argument back in 2006.
The professor is David Schanzer and he wrote this column with a student named Jay Sullivan.
It was published by the New York Times.
Cancel the Midterms
By Tuesday night about 90 million...
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...
This university obviously hasn’t heard about rape culture.
China Daily reported.
Wuhan college hosts brothel on campus
A university in central China’s Wuhan city has come under fire after media reports suggest that the school has been operating a brothel on campus.
Students from Wuchang Polytechnic School have reported to local police that a hotel...
His former students might feel swindled out of part of their education, too.
Ex-business professor charged in $3M investment scheme
A former adjunct professor at Columbia Business School has been charged with bilking investors including a former student out of $3 million.
Gregory Rorke was freed on $1 million bail Friday after his initial...
Because people used to worship other gods that are dead now. Get it?
Doug Erickson of the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
In the Spirit: That ‘graveyard’ on Bascom Hill today? It’s those student atheists at it again
A fake graveyard on Bascom Hill today honors more than 250 ancient deities. Well, honors might be...
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...
Over $17,000 for ‘fat vests’ to find out what it’s like to be overweight?
Really?
Maggie Lit of Campus Reform reported.
University gets federal grant for fat vests, ‘weight sensitivity training’
New Mexico State University (NMSU) received a hefty grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) so students and faculty can run around...
There are claims of a massive cover-up. The real question is if, as in the case with the mass raping of girls in England over a fifteen-year span, outsiders were involved in the cover-up as well.
From the Daily Mail:
Police hunt former head teacher of Florida Islamic school accused of raping students...
One has to wonder how much of this was about politics and not scholarship.
Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog reports.
Duquesne Prof Sues Dean, Law School For Discrimination After Tenure Denial
National Law Journal, Law Professor Files Bias Suit Against Duquesne, Dean:
A Duquesne University School of Law professor, whose subjects include Islamic law, has...
