Here’s a little humor to help you get through Monday afternoon. The Onion has come up with some clever ways for students to tackle the high cost of college.
Tips For Paying For College
While many students take out federal or private loans to pay for college, the costs of tuition, fees, and...
Here’s an update to our previous report.
Another university has caved in to a whining student body. Remember, faculty and staff: the student is always right!
Derek Draplin at The College Fix has the story:
Accused...
This is a subject that shouldn’t be subject to politics but both parties are vying for votes from college students.
Neal McCluskey of See Thru Edu lays it out in a new post.
When It Comes to Student Loans, It’s All Political
Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, the American Enterprise Institute’s...
Delaware State University associate professor Cyril Broderick published an article in a major Liberian newspaper, the Daily Observer, stating that the U.S. Department of Defense manufactured Ebola as part of its bio-terrorism research.
Terrence McCoy of the Washington Post reports:
A professor in U.S. is telling Liberians that the Defense Department ‘manufactured’ Ebola
Last...
FOX News is blamed, naturally.
Russell Westerholm of University Herald reports.
Brown University Queer Alliance Cancels ‘Sex Power God’ Party This Year for Fear of Safety
The Queer Alliance (QA) at Brown University has decided to cancel this fall’s “Sex Power God” (SPG) party for becoming unsafe for attendees.
According to the Huffington Post, the...
I wonder how all the Harvard MBA grads feel about this. They’re probably not too happy their alma mater is diluting its prestige with joke classes like this while the rest of the world becomes increasingly business competitive.
BostInno reported.
Harvard Business School Students are Going To Be Studying Beyoncé
A new Harvard Business...
This is bound to make lots of people very angry.
Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.
Heresy! Study Shows ‘Natural Wind Changes’ a Contributor to Global Warming
Wha-a-a-a …? “Natural wind changes” could be responsible for some of the global warming we’ve seen over the years?
Yes, say researchers from the University of Washington....
It seems accreditation is no longer a measure of whether a school can educate it students, but a tool to force political ideology onto private businesses — forcing them to deny beliefs that are “deeply embedded in [their] culture.”
Here’s more from The College Fix:
Christian College Could Lose Accreditation In A Year...
In a new post at the College Conservative, Chelsea Gruenwald takes a look at the hypocrisy of environmental activists.
People’s Climate March: Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Around 400,000 concerned citizen and celebrity activists gathered in New York City this past weekend to express their concern about the climate and...
‘Murderabilia’ is a surprisingly popular niche market. Look at this article, people bid $2500 for a lock of Charles Manson’s hair.
Sterling Beard of Campus Reform has the story:
Murder rifle used in 1966 University...
Isn’t 21 still the legal drinking age? Not for some Dartmouth students.
Jake G. Rascoff of the Dartmouth Review has the story.
Students Denied Service
On Wednesday night, three Dartmouth students—one ’15 and two ‘16s—went to Molly’s to celebrate one of the aforementioned ‘16s’ twenty-first birthd...
The authors of an editorial which claimed that ‘flesh-colored’ bras were an example of racism are now pleading with the internet to stop making fun of them. No word yet on whether the internet will accept a truce.
Greg Piper at the College Fix has the story:
Stop Saying We Think Bras Are...
Someone somewhere finally decided that this ‘diversity’ business has been taken a few steps too far.
Kyle Brooks at The College Fix has the story:
Marquette Student Government Blocks Diversity Coordinator Position
A Jesuit college that pays for same-sex partner benefits, has hosted a kinky-sex student workshop and whose pr...
Who could have seen this coming? A sad story all around.
Jonathon van Maren of Life Site News reports.
Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
She looks young, younger than her 18 years. Sitting on a bed in a hotel room wearing baggy pajamas, glasses, and a far-away look, she...
Yik Yak has become extremely popular on my campus, too. Basically, it’s a public forum for short messages like Twitter, except that the posts are “anonymous” (there are no names associated with posts). The app is organized geographically, so that only people in your area–city, college, etc.–can post to that area’s...
File this under civil war – academic style.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reported.
Habitually Disrespected?
Faculty members at San Antonio’s Alamo Colleges criticized Chancellor Bruce Leslie last year for trying to bump a humanities course from the core curriculum, to make room for a required class based in part on the popular...
What’s going on? First the flyers at Cornell, now this?
From HuffPo:
University Of Chicago Activists Post List Of Men Who Have Shown ‘Troubling Behavior’
Students at the University of Chicago are circulating a...
The mainstream media has neglected to report this story. I wonder why.
We covered this in detail at Legal Insurrection, Why is the Brendan Tevlin murder so underreported?
Michael Cipriano of the College Fix further reports.
REPORTS: College Student, 19, Murdered in New Jersey by Domestic Terrorism Jihadist
Brendan Tevlin was a good kid, a...
You know, I for one miss the days when sex was something private, personal, and special, and not something you demonstrated in public with dildos and ‘vulva puppets’.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
College Hosts ‘Get Laid’ Seminar, Complete with Hands-On Demonstrations
There wasn’t a lot left to the imagin...
Finally, something that makes sense.
Maggie Lit of Campus Reform reports:
Students protest ‘sexist’ intramural soccer rule that doubles points when women score
A state university intramural soccer program is under fire by students for it’s “sexist” policy of awarding two points when a fe...
Maybe I’m a cynic but I just don’t believe there’s a big racism problem at Colgate University.
NBC News in Utica reported.
Colgate University students stage protest to bring attention to racism on campus
Hundreds of students at Colgate University say racism and inequality is a big issue on campus.
Big enough that about 400...
A new app for Android and iOS tries to assist two parties in getting ‘affirmative consent’ for sex, but it doesn’t fulfill all of the many clauses of the California Affirmative Consent Bill. (Maybe it says something about the practicality of a law if you can’t write a computer program to tell...
