California campuses have aggressively gone after campus smoking, and the editors of the University of California – Berkeley student newspaper are now saying the targeting of the increasingly popular e-cigarettes is going too far.
For decades, American society has been moving toward a complete ban on smoking tobacco. Since about the mid-20th...
So it’s come to this.
At the USC vs. Stanford football game, a USC student sign used support for Obamacare as an insult.
Twitchy has the tweets that tell the story.
https://twitter.com/SenLeeComs/statuses/401726512531243008
Students now invoking Obamacare as a taunt in Gameday signs on ESPN.
— Brendan Buck (@BrendanBuck) November 16, 2013
@CollegeGameDay sign at #USC: Stanford...
The University of California – Los Angeles has a noted diversity program, which provides diversity-related resources for undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Despite these best efforts, a new video reveals that black students on campus aren’t satisfied…and blame lack of race-based admission policies.
The number of NCAA championships UCLA has...
This professor gets a D for dumb decisions. The student sounds like a real winner too.
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
Feisty college student hits professor she was sleeping with, then hits cop
The Daily Caller’s Gold Star Student of the Week is Taylor Ashton Davis, a community college student in Iowa...
Michigan State University recently opened the Veterans’ Resource Center, catering to one group that usually receives little “diversity outreach”.
The student editors of The State News see this as a positive sign, but note that having a public space is worthless without adequate support from university administrators.
Although the center is opening today,...
Loyola University student Mathew Lamb has some ideas to make conservative ideals more appealing to fellow scholars.
In light of the massive failure of Obamacare, this may be an easier sale.
Much time has been spent by political pundits and consultants knocking their heads together to decide how the Republican Party can start...
Those would be the same college professors who donated overwhelmingly to Democrats.
Steven Hayward of The PowerLine Blog reports.
Obamacare Hits the Campus
The other day I mentioned that things might really get rough for Obama when health insurance cancellation notices hit elite Washington journalists. I neglected to consider what might happen if it...
MRCTV’s Dan Joseph recently walked around American University asking students how they defined the terms “conservative” and “progressive.” It didn’t go so well:
In fairness, I suspect the responses would have been very different if the interviews were conducted at an institution like, say, Hillsdale College — and not American University. But...
We recently featured a piece about out of work scholars finding life after academia. Now Nathan Harden of The College Fix highlights a related report.
New Trend: PhD Gr...
The sequester is still impacting university research budgets, and administrators continue to lobby hard for the reinstatement of funding.
This week university presidents meeting in the nation’s capital denounced the sequester, as they have since before it took effect in March, and urged Congress to roll it back so that federally sponsored...
America’s top colleges and universities fall all over themselves to recruit foreign students but American veterans? Not so much.
Wick Sloane of Slate reports.
G.I. Joe College
If you can believe it, the number of undergraduate veterans at the nation’s self-proclaimed most highly selective colleges is significantly fewer than we reported in 2011. The...
The student editors of the Brown Daily Herald offer a First-Amendment based perspective on the recent uproar over a speech by New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
The guest column (“Organizers and supporters of the demonstration against Ray Kelly: Standing for racial justice: A public statement,” Nov. 11) is troubling on many...
Reason Editor Nick Gillespie has written a piece for Time in which he points out something about Obamacare that many college-aged people don’t know. They’re being robbed.
Ads Hide Obamacare Truth: It’s Generational Theft
Is massive stupidity covered under Obamacare? What about sexual promiscuity and heavy drinking? Those are some of the questions...
As today’s twenty-somethings struggle to finance their education or find jobs, Rosa Hyman of PolicyMic took a look at how current world leaders pent their formative years for inspirational examples of perseverance.
Here is what she found:
5. Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel
Netanyahu joined the Israeli military before he even turned 20,...
You know what else is unacceptable? Student loan debt has risen 463% under President Obama.
Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Michelle Goes to College
This past Tuesday, Mrs. Obama told a group of sophomores at a local Washington, D.C. high...
Obamacare is redefining the concept of “total system failure.”
Not only is the website fraught with issues, but instead of rushing to enroll in the program, the young Americans who were suppose to be a key component to program implementation are now having “Dropping Out” parties (hat-tip, Instapundit).
This weekend the “free-thinking, liberty-loving”...
Well that didn’t take long. It just goes to show that the left is never satisfied, no matter how much you try to placate them.
KPIX of San Francisco reports.
Protesters Seek New UC President’s Ouster Over Immigration Stand
University of California President Janet Napolitano’s first regents’ meeting as head of the system drew...
University of Arizona student Katie Jones says some of the school’s professors are clamoring for administrators to implement new hiring policies based on race and not merit, to “even out the numbers.”
From 2009 to this year, 40 Asian, 3 black and 12 Latino educators were hired, in addition to two scholars...
Not from The Onion…
Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reports.
A Small College’s Demise
Despite historic backing from the nation’s largest labor unions and niche offerings, the National Labor College plans to close – unable to get beyond ongoing financial difficulties, its president said Wednesday.
The college, in suburban Maryland, has a decades-long history...
We recently reported that “civil rights” activist and notorious race-baiter Jesse Jackson spoke at Furman University in South Carolina.
In the background, another free speech drama was playing out…involving conservative students and a flier they were attempting to distribute.
A recently released video appears to show an administrator at Furman University attempting to...
Mike Rowe, best known for his hit TV show “Dirty Jobs” and a series of Ford commercials, as some good insights when in comes to the rewards of hard work.
He recently appeared on The Glenn Beck Program to discuss his efforts with the
Vladimir Davidiuk writes at The College Conservative. In a recent post, he laid out the truth.
Liar. Period. End Of Story.
Very little that Obama promised with regard to the Affordable Care Act has been proven true. In fact, to the contrary, Obama’s assurances that Obamacare would lower premiums and deductibles have resulted...
