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College Students in Neighboring States Flock to Colorado Pot Shops

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Posted by    Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 6:30pm

The pot shops should just bus them over. Call it the canni-bus.

Seth Paxton reports for Fox News:

Road trip: Colorado pot shops lure college kids from nearby states

Neighboring Colorado is Oklahoma, a state where both medical and recreational marijuana is illegal. With little surprise to State of Oklahoma officials, Colorado marijuana has...

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Farmingdale State College Professor Beheaded by Her Troubled Son

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Posted by    Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 5:00pm

A horrific crime took place on Long Island, New York this week. A Farmingdale State College professor was killed by her son who had a history of mental illness. FOX News reported.

Professor beheaded in what witnesses first thought was Halloween prank

A man with a history of...

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Family Sues Teacher, School Board for $3 Million for ‘Malicious Sexual Contact’ with Son

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Posted by    Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 3:30pm

Remember the 17-year old who received oral sex from his 22-year old substitute teacher on her first day of work? Well, a month after this, the family is now suing the teacher and the D.C. school board.

Eric Owens reports for the Daily Caller:

Family Of 17-Year-Old Male Student Who Received Oral Sex...

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Asking Applicants if They’ve Ever Been Arrested is now Off-Limits at Some Colleges

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Posted by    Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 2:00pm

Let me get this straight. Higher education is hyperventilating over “rape culture” but you can’t ask applicants if they’ve ever been arrested?

That makes sense.

Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.

Colleges Agree Not To Ask If Applicants Have Been Arrested Because It’s A Discriminatory Question

Under an agreement with the New York State...

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Elementary School Handout Calls the Presidents on Mt. Rushmore Racist

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Posted by    Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 12:30pm

The source of the handout, given to 8-year-old students at a Tennessee elementary school, is apparently the Nation of Islam.

Todd Starnes at Fox News has the story:

School’s Nation of Islam handout paints Founding Fathers as racists

The mother of an eight-year-old wants to know why...

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How do Colleges Train People to Judge Campus Sex Offense Cases?

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Posted by    Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 11:00am

I assumed it had something to do with throwing people in a lake to see if they sink but KC Johnson of Minding the Campus has the real story.

How Judges of Campus Sex Offenses Are ‘Trained’

I’ve written frequently about the unfair, guilt-presuming processes that colleges and universities from Harvard to Occidental...

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Disturbing Number of College Students Support “Post-Birth Abortion”

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Posted by    Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 9:30am

Yes, you read that right: there are people who are not only okay with killing unborn babies, but born babies as well. Where does it end?

Mairead McArdle at the College Fix has the story:

TRENDING: More college students support post-birth abortion

A trend seen by prolife activists that frequently engage college students on campuses...

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Survey Wrongly Suggests 1 in 6 MIT Undergraduates Have Been Sexually Assaulted

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Posted by    Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 8:00am

There are quite a few things wrong with the way the survey was conducted. Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner breaks it down.

Hat tip to Instapundit.

1 in 6 MIT undergraduates have not been sexually assaulted

Another day, another false statistic trying to tell women that college campuses are no safer than the...

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Sorority Cancels Fundraising Event Because it Offended a Few People

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 6:30pm

A “Jail ‘N’ Bail” Event put on by a sorority at Northwestern was canceled because a few students complained about it “making light of mass incarceration.”

Jeanne Kuang at The Daily Northwestern reports:

Kappa ‘Jail N’ Bail’ philanthropy event canceled after criticism

Organizers canceled a philanthropy event featuring a mock jail hosted by...

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Cosmopolitan Magazine to Bus North Carolina State Students to Polls

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 5:00pm

Remember when Cosmo was a fashion magazine and not an activist arm of the Democratic Party?

Lindsay Smith of the Technician reports.

Male models, party bus to bring student voters to polls

On Nov. 4, students in need of a ride to the polls will have the option take a party bus equipped with...

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Bill Maher Next in Long Line of Commencement Speaker Protests

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 3:30pm

Do students these days not have anything better to protest?

Heyun Jeong at The Daily Californian has the story:

Students spring into opposition after Bill Maher announced as keynote speaker

In response to an announcement last week that comedian Bill Maher would speak at UC Berkeley’s fall commencement, an online petition started circulating Thursday...

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Progressive Hypocrisy on Campus Rape and Rotherham

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 2:00pm

In a new column at the Examiner, Hans Bader compares hysteria over campus rape with silence over Rotherham.

Progressive schizophrenia about campus rape

The Talmud says that “he who is kind to the cruel is cruel to the kind.” That aptly describes many “progressives,” who coddle rapists while seeking to brand innocent people...

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Across New York State, Plans for Casinos to be Built Near College Campuses

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 12:30pm

In 2013, New York voters approved a law allowing multiple casino developments throughout upstate New York in order to bring more jobs to the financially-depressed region. Now it seems the casino developers are aiming to build their mega gambling and entertainment complexes near college campuses, where they know there are large,...

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Being for Due Process on Campus Does not Equal Misogyny

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 11:00am

When did due process become something which must be defended?

Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner reports.

‘Yes means yes’ opposition: It’s about due process, not misogyny

It’s easy enough for women writers to attack men who write against “yes means yes” laws as crude misogynists. But it’s a simple and lazy response that...

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‘Abortion Heroes’ Celebrated at UNC-Wilmington Event

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 9:30am

When I think of heroes, I think of people who have achieved great feats. Women who get abortions don’t qualify in the slightest, regardless of your opinion on the legality and morality of abortion.

Kaitlyn Schallhorn reports for Campus Reform:

University celebrates ‘abortion heroes,’ commends illegal abortions

The University of North Carolina – Wilmington...

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University of Pennsylvania Offers Course Called “Wasting Time on The Internet”

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 8:00am

If you need to pay someone to teach you how to waste time on the internet, you really don’t belong in college.

Tina Nguyen of Mediaite has the story.

Ivy League School Offers Class Called ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’

Have you ever wanted to get college credit in dicking around on the internet?...

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Teachers Call For Boycott Against Time Magazine Over Critical Story on Tenure

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 6:30pm

The magazine’s most recent cover story is about the near-impossibility of firing public school teachers.

From the Washington Post:

A Time magazine cover enrages teachers — again

Time magazine has done it again: It published a cover that has enraged teachers around the country, triggering protesting e-mails...

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Prager University – What’s the Right Minimum Wage?

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 5:00pm

In a new video from Prager University, economist David Henderson explains why raising the minimum wage isn’t a good idea.

Here’s more information.

Course Description

What’s the perfect minimum wage: is it $10 an hour? $15? $20? How about zero? That’s right. Zero. While Congress discusses a minimum wage hike, economist David Henderson shows...

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U Houston Misuses FERPA: “Talking about the lawsuit might lead us to disclosing education records”

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 3:30pm

Colleges have begun using FERPA as an excuse for keeping silent an time they get caught doing something questionable.

Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:

University of Houston wrongly invokes student-privacy law in sex assault case

The Student Press Law Center’s latest example of college administrators misusing the Family Educational Rights...

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NYU Prof Thinks Coverage of Michelle Obama’s Arms Proves People Fear Strong Women

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 2:00pm

Of course, this exchange took place on MSNBC. Of course.

Breitbart news reports.

NYU Prof: Coverage of First Lady’s Arms Shows Fear of Strong Women

NYU Associate Professor Thuy Linh Tu argued that media coverage First Lady Michelle Obama’s arms shows “we’re always a little bit uncomfortable with a str...

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San Diego State Students Call for School to Ditch “Offensive” Aztec Warrior Mascot

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 12:30pm

First, they came for the Redskins…

Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:

Students say spear-wielding Aztec mascot offensive, demand its decommission

Some students at San Diego State University are pushing to scrap their “Aztec Warrior” mascot and its use of a spear, claiming they perpetuate “harmful stereotypes of Native Americans” and...

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Ohio University Senate Has No Idea How to Implement $15 Minimum Wage They Voted For

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 11:00am

Well, what a surprise. They voted for a $15 minimum wage on campus but they don’t know how to make it happen.

It doesn’t sound like they thought this through very thoroughly.

Alisa Warren of The Post reports.

OU Student Senate lacks plan for $15 minimum wage

Ohio University Student Senate still wants the university...

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