It seems the Condoleezza Rice debacle at Rutgers left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. Timothy Egan of the New York Times writes.
The Commencement Bigots
It’s commencement season, cellphones off please, no texts or tweets. Even with a hangover from debt, alcohol or regret, grads across the land may be lucky enough...
A Harvard survey confirms our report on the rise of Libertarianism across campuses nationwide.
Last week, Harvard University’s Institute of Politics released its 25th “Survey of Young Americans Attitudes toward Politics and Public Service,” providing valuable insight into the political mindset of the millennial generation. Conducted biannually since 2000, the poll traces...
Stephen L. Carter is a law professor at Yale. He also writes for Bloomberg and in this piece, he lets the class of 2014 have it.
Dear Class of 2014: Thanks for Not Disinviting Me
Members of the Class of 2014, I salute you. My warmest wishes on the occasion of your graduation...
Columbia Spectator student reporter Maia Bix covers a new legislative proposal that would mandate colleges within New York City to prepare monthly sex crime statistics.
New York City Public Advocate Letitia James proposed new legislation on Monday to address sexual assault on college campuses.
The NYC Campus Safety Act would require private and...
Mallory Factor is the John C. West Professor of International Politics and American Government at The Citadel – Military College of South Carolina as well as a Fox News Contributor.
He was recently interviewed by PJ Media’s Ed Driscoll about his new book, Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution–As Told...
What’s that old saying about the road to hell being paved with good intentions?
Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Anti-Discrimination Rule that Discriminates
When scholars enthuse over laws and regulations, they are often the last to notice the unintended consequences of the statutes and rules. “Why is every attempt that involves...
Many political pundits are getting an early start to 2016 Presidential election predictions.
Despite a promise not to opine so early, Loyola University student Matthew Lamb explores one potential match-up and makes a startling assertion.
…In this hypothetical match-up, I look at how a possible 2016 match-up of Hillary Clinton vs. Rand Paul...
Not content with trying to divest from fossil fuels and Israel, higher ed is now setting its sights on tobacco.
Cory Weinberg of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Divestment From ‘Moral Evil?’
The Board of Trustees at the University of Pennsylvania will weigh an unusual question next month: Are tobacco companies “morally evil”?
If trustees decide...
Swarthmore College is one of the most notoriously liberal bastions in the country.
After four years, student columnist Tyler Becker recounts his experiences as a campus conservative.
…Sometimes I regret calling my column “The Swarthmore Conservative.” While I am a conservative, I have written about more than politics in this column. Certain issues...
It seems they’ll give an honorary degree to anybody these days.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
German University To Award Edward Snowden Honorary Doctorate
Heralding him as the “Columbus of the Digital Age,” faculty at a German university have voted to award NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden an honorary doctorate.
The decision was reached Wednesday...
A proposed minimum wage hike could make a bleak employment situation for young Americans even more dire.
School officials at college in Illinois are warning that if the state raises the minimum wage, the y will cut hours for student workers, Campus Reform reported.
“Right now, we are able to hire eight part-time...
It becomes ever more difficult to keep track of all the dumb things some college students are offended by. This one is a real hum-dinger.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reports.
‘Hump Day’ event cancelled after students claim bringing a camel to campus was racist
Students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota...
After the state legalizes the use of marijuana, one Colorado school offers a new, pot-based curriculum.
Its new “studies” program promises to put a new spin on the phrase, “higher education.”
Clover Leaf University in Colorado is offering an entire curriculum devoted to the study of cannabis, Campus Reform reported.
The new marijuana-themed institution...
Democratic politics 101:
Step 1. Create a problem.
Step 2. Offer a solution to the problem you created.
Peter Schroeder of The Hill reports.
Dems ready student loan push
Senate Democrats are preparing a June offensive on student loans meant to bolster the party’s 2014 election message.
Democrats will push for a vote on legislation to allow...
Grove City College student Claire E Healey files this report on one of the frontlines in the upcoming 2016 presidential election battles: American college campuses.
When Hillary Clinton visited Yale University last month to accept an award, 100 students signed up for a campus group dedicated to supporting likely her 2016 presidential...
In a recent article, Heather Mac Donald of National Review suggested that sexual assault controversies on campus today are in fact a creation of liberalism in higher ed.
The Obama Administration’s Deserving Victims
For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting...
Waynesburg University student Nika Anschuetz compares the media treatment given to two of football’s most publicized players.
….Michael Sam has been praised for being the first openly gay football player in the NFL. On May 11, Michael Sam was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round; he was the 249th...
File this story under it’s not fascism when we do it.
Michael Schaus of Townhall reported.
Professor Wants Climate Change “Deniers” Thrown in Jail
An assistant philosophy professor at Rochester Institute of Technology has proposed a bold plan to settle the debate on Global Warming. Lawrence Torcello wrote an essay suggesting that scientists who...
This week’s edition of “zero tolerance insanity” is going to make it challenging for one school’s fencing club to actually practice its sport.
The fencing club at North Dakota State University cannot hold practices on campus as a result of the school’s weapons policy, Campus Reform reported.
Members of the newly formed club...
This sort of thing has become an epidemic on college campuses. When is someone going to tell kids who do this to sit down and shut up or leave?
Hat tip to Instapundit. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Shouted Down at Portland State
Portland State University students hold an annual forum with...
The results of a new study do not bode well for campus safety statistics, especially in Colorado.
Underage college students are more likely to drive after smoking pot or to ride in a car with a driver who had, according to a recent study Reuters reported.
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts at...
Gee, I wonder if anyone will protest the appearance of an avowed communist with a criminal past?
Joseph Asch of Dartblog reports.
Show Tolerance for Angela Davis
Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, describes springtime as “disinvitation season” for speakers at American universities. The New York Times reports:
A week...
