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Colgate professor berates senior class president in rambling email

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 4:30pm

Sarah Hofmann of The Daily Caller reports.

Colgate professor sends insanely condescending email to senior class president

After Colgate University the senior class council president began telling tales of his drunken exploits during his speech at a senior class champagne brunch, one of the school’s professors made it very clear she wasn’t laughing.

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Universities Invested More in Amenities than in Education

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 3:00pm

A Potemkin Village is an impressive facade designed to hide an adverse condition.

Similarly, today’s campuses could be considered Potemkin Institutions.   In the American Conservative,  Alan Jacobs reviews a book on the current state of higher education that is written by Jeffrey...

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Washington Times book review – Is College Worth It?

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 1:00pm

The book was written by former Secretary of Education, Bill Bennett.

Here’s what David DesRosiers of The Washington Times had to say.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Is College Worth It?’

William J. Bennett and David Wilezol’s “Is College Worth It?” asks and authoritatively answers one of life’s biggest questions.

The orthodox answer to the question, the authors...

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Knox College Student: Individual Responsibility Real Key to Health

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 11:00am

Government regulations cannot create good health.

Knox College student Alex Uzarowicz takes a look at one governor’s choices to examine why personal responsibility is the key to a healthy life style:

Governor Chris Christie embodies this type of individual responsibility. He’s leading a responsible path.

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Do the Swarthmore students demanding divestment want a $13,000 tuition increase?

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Posted by    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 9:30am

In a recent post at College Insurrection, we profiled Swarthmore’s descent into madness over divestment.

What will the student activists demanding divestment say when they’re hit with a massive tuition increase?

Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed reports.

How to Weigh the Future

Would you be willing to pay about $13,000 more a year in...

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IRS targeted the conservative Leadership Institute

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 8:00am

The extent of the Internal Revenue Service’s harassment of conservative groups just being uncovered, as more conservative groups come forward with stories of their experiences with this government agency.

In his Red State diary, Mike Krempasky reports on the special attention the Leadership Institute in Arlington received. Since being established in 1979,...

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15 Conservatives You Wish Had Spoken At Your College Graduation

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 10:00pm

It’s college graduation season and you’ll be shocked to learn that few colleges have invited conservatives to be commencement speakers.

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Emerson College Student: Affirmative Action is Government-Sponsored Racism

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 6:30pm

College Insurrection has been following Fisher v. University of Texas, a case before the Supreme Court that would end government-imposed affirmative action at American universities.

Kristin Tate of Emerson College argues on that affirmative action policies are essentially government-sponsored racism in The College Conservative:

Affirmative action is a form of racism. These policies, intended...

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Students use Occupy strategy to protest tuition at Cooper Union

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 5:00pm

Cooper Union has provided free education to college students for years but it’s not immune to the dismal economy and starting this fall, they will charge tuition for the first time.

That news didn’t sit well with some people who stupidly cling to the idea that everything should be free.

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Video Review of the Bowdoin College diversity dustup

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 3:30pm

We recently took a look at a disagreement over diversity at a small liberal arts college in Maine, which brought the magnitude campus groupthink into the public eye.

Charles C. Johnson and Ginni Thomas of The Daily Caller interview National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood on the details and the...

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Conservative activist James O’Keefe talks citizen journalism at Northwestern

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 2:00pm

Conservative activist James O’Keefe was at Northwestern University recently, urging Chicago-area fans of Andrew Breitbart to continue the late activist’s legacy.

The Daily Northwestern Managing Editor Patrick Svitek files this report:

“I can’t do it alone,” O’Keefe told about 40 people in a Technological Institute auditorium. “They have come at me with everything....

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U. of Texas – Arlington Fined for Improper Crime Reports

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 12:30pm

The Department of Education (DOE) has hit the University of Texas – Arlington with an $82,500 fine for allegedly misreporting crime statistics.

Scott Greer of Campus Reform files this report on the details of the case:

According the DOE, the school misclassified and underreported certain crimes that were committed on its campus that...

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Columbia Professor’s ‘Anti-Jewish Screed’ Draws Fire

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:00am

Professor wrote that the Nazis successfully “killed the majority of Jewish enemies of Zionism.”

Columbia University is rapidly becoming notorious for its professional staff.

We recently reported that the school was now the academic home of domestic terrorist turned professor, Kathy Boudin.

Now, the College Fix shares this story about another professor:

Via The Washington Free Beacon:

A tenured Columbia University professor is facing criticism for claiming in a...

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IRS demanded names of students in conservative education group

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 9:30am

This is fascism, folks. I really don’t know what else to say.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.

IRS asked conservative education group for names of all its students

As yet more evidence of scandal at the Internal Revenue Service surfaces, the founder of a conservative education group now claims the IRS demanded...

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NYU prof busted for filming women in dressing rooms

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Posted by    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 8:00am

Maybe this art history professor was just doing a study in nudes for one of his classes.

Arrianne Talma of Red Alert Politics reports.

NYU professor charged with unlawful surveillance after filming women changing in dressing rooms

Look’s like New York University has a “peeping Tom” on its payroll!

A art history professor at the...

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