Legal Insurrection
College Insurrection
All Posts (Page 283)

9 Year Old Girl Recruited by U. Miami Basketball Team

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 5:00pm

Here’s one family that doesn’t have to worry about going into debt for college tuition. Wow.

Scott Stump of Today News reported.

Ballin’! 9-year-old girl recruited by University of Miami basketball team

Jaden Newman spent three hours taking a tour of the University of Miami last week, where the women’s basketball coaching staff urged...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Fake or Flake? Which academic biography is a work of fantasy and which is real?

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 3:30pm

PJ Media’s Roger Kimball offers readers an intriguing challenge.

Pick which academic biography is from a new piece of fiction and which one is real, but seems to be based on fantasy (hat tip to Instapundit)

The other day, I wrote about Harry Stein’s new comic novel Will Tripp: Pissed Off Attorney at...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Veteran Student at U. Wyoming Told He Can’t Open Meetings With Pledge of Allegiance

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 2:00pm

You see, the Pledge of Allegiance might offend the two international students in the student government. The two international students did choose to come to America, right? So what’s the problem?

Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.

U. Of Wyoming Veteran Says He Was Barred From Saying Pledge

A veteran in the student...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Social media allows conservative students to cope with liberal campuses

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 12:30pm

We recently noted that the Twitter hashtag, #MyLiberalCampus, has been a great resource for conservative students to document liberal bias on their campuses and to transmit that information nationally.

Now, Kim Kozlowski of The Detroit News takes an in-depth look at how social media is helping c...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Starbucks Will Pay for Employees’ Junior and Senior Years at Arizona State Online

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 11:00am

This sounds like a pretty cool offer for Starbucks employees. What a great opportunity to take advantage of.

Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reported.

Starbucks U.

Starbucks on Sunday night announced a major effort to help its...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Man Caused Disaster Update – William and Mary Student Reviews Latest News on Benghazi

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 9:30am

Truly, the Obama Administration is a “Man-Caused Disaster”.

To help us keep track of some of the inanity, College of William and Mary freshman Elizabeth Marcello reviews the Benghazi scandal.

….Since news of the September 11th attack on the consulate and CIA annex in 2012 broke, everyone in the White House from President...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Kennesaw State Prof Invents New Term: ‘Liberal Privilege’

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 8:00am

Professor Melvyn Fein nails it on the head with this one. We could use a few more profs like him.

The College Fix reports.

WOW! Professor Coins Awesome New Term: ‘Liberal Privilege’

Check this out: a professor not only speaks out against white privilege – saying people should be judged by the content of...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

King’s College Becomes First US School to Accept Bitcoin for Tuition

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 6:30pm

As colleges and universities race to keep up with new technologies, many are experimenting with the use of Bitcoin for the payment of school-related expenses.

Harvard recently opened up a Bitcoin ATM.

Now, a college has become the first in the nation to use Bitcoin for tuition payments.

The King’s College becomes the first...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Duke Porn Star Offers Sensible Commentary on College Tuition

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 5:00pm

We’ve spent plenty of time talking about the Duke Porn Star but as Jesse Saffron of National Review points out below, she recently said something that made a lot of sense.

Common Sense Economics from a Porn Star

Do you remember “Belle Knox,” the Duke University student (real name Miriam Weeks) who made headlines...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Furman Student Reports on Feminist Fury After Edits Made to #YesAllWomen Wiki Page

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 3:30pm

Wiki’s Crime? Filled with misandry, editors wanted to avoid #WarOnMen.

Given how favorably Wikipedia treats liberal causes, it is amusing how they have now become the target of feminist fury.

It seems that the editors of the online encyclopedia might be a bit concerned that the man-bashing tone might put-off a significant portion of their readership.

Perhaps it is time for men’s rights...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Harvard Prof Teams up With Fan of Boston Marathon Bomber to Squelch Free Speech

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 2:00pm

Liberal Harvard prof Lawrence Lessig has teamed up with liberal Cambridge based musician Amanda Palmer.

They’re trying to raise big money to get big money out of politics.

Palmer came under fire last year for penning a poem to Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Eric Owens of the Daily Caller has the story.

Harvard Professor...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Network of Enlightened Women Invites Coeds to Washington DC Conference

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 12:30pm

Female college students with a liberty-loving streak may be interested in attending an upcoming conference.

NeW, or Network of enlightened Women, is set to host its annual conference, and it’s encouraging liberty-loving ladies to come on by. The conference includes panels discussing key issues affecting women, professional development training, networking and more.

What’s NeW,...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Liberal Academics Panic as Idaho Campus Gun Law Goes Into Effect

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 11:00am

When something like Obamacare is passed, it’s the law of the land but when campus open carry laws pass, liberals plot and scheme to undo them.

Charlie Tyson writes at Inside Higher Ed.

Outgunned, for Now

“When may I shoot a student?” A Boise State professor’s satirical question, posed in the pages of The...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Scholarship Named After Student Hero from Seattle Pacific University

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 9:30am

We recently noted the importance of  student security guards, in the wake of the heroic action of Jon Meis, who prevented a UCSB-like tragedy being replayed at Seattle Pacific...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Obama Says Spending on Prisons is Main Reason College Tuition Has Gone Up

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 8:00am

Well that’s a new one. I think the president deserves some credit for creativity here.

Craig Banister of CNS News reported.

Obama: Spending on Prisons Is ‘Main Reason Tuition Has Gone Up’

“The main reason that tuition has gone up so much is that state legislatures stopped subsidizing public universities as much as they...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

U. Arizona student reports on her dad’s scheduling troubles at Phoenix VA Hospitals

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Monday, June 16, 2014 at 6:30pm

University of Arizona student Julianne Stanford reports on her family’s personal experience with one of the VA hospitals at the core of the continuing healthcare scandal.

The Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Medical Center is at the center of a national scandal surrounding the Department of Veterans Affairs that has prompted widespread...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Sugar Daddy University Opening in New York

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Monday, June 16, 2014 at 5:00pm

Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached a new low. Ben Russell of the Mirror UK reports.

Sugar Daddy University: New course teaches ‘sugar babies’ how to land a wealthy man

A new course is offering to teach women how to be the ideal ‘sugar baby’ in order to land a wealthy man.

Professional sugar...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

#WarOnMen – Female provost accused of sexually harassing male colleagues

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Monday, June 16, 2014 at 3:30pm

One has to wonder what explanations campus feminist activists will give when they learn that a former provost of Montana university is accused of touching male employees inappropriately, and dean who filed complaint says he faced retaliation.

Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard files this report:

A sexual harassment case involving a former provost...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

New Documentary Film Examines the High Cost of College

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Monday, June 16, 2014 at 2:00pm

The movie is called Ivory Tower and you can watch the trailer below.

Eric Owens of the Daily Caller wrote about it recently.

If you are looking to catch a flick this weekend, you could do a lot worse than “Ivory Tower.”

The provocative documentary, which hit select theaters on Friday, demonstrates in sad...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Easy Prediction: President’s New Student Loan Scheme Will Lead to Higher Costs

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Monday, June 16, 2014 at 12:30pm

File this under “All Proceeds as Instapundit has Foreseen”.

When I was a college freshman in 1983, average tuition, fees, room and board at private, nonprofit colleges added up to $18,143 in 2013 dollars. This year, that number has risen to $40,917. Public colleges are cheaper than their private counterparts, but they’ve...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Can Student Loan Debt be Helped With Income-Share Agreements?

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Monday, June 16, 2014 at 11:00am

This is an interesting concept and if it can help some students manage their debt, why not try it?

The College Fix has the story.

How to Escape the Student Debt Trap

Miguel Palacios, an assistant professor of finance at Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Management, believes he knows the salvation for the massive...

Read More...
 
 
 
 

Homework for Hire: Economics Student Works for UNC’s Student-Athletes

Comments
Permalink
Posted by    Monday, June 16, 2014 at 9:30am

We have been covering the story of a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s scandal-ridden support of academically weak athletic students .

Now, one of the homework-for-hire “tutors” has come forward to share his experiencing doing the homework for the school’s sports team members.

When Rashad McCants admitted to taking paper classes at...

Read More...