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Dixie State U. Bans use of Greek Alphabet for Name of School Club

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Posted by    Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 2:00pm

This is amazing news. Who knew a college could ban the use of an entire alphabet?

The FIRE reports.

Dixie State University Bans an Alphabet, Tells Women They Can’t Use Greek Letters in Club Name

ST. GEORGE, Utah, October 30, 2013—Nineteen female Dixie State University students are being forced to fight their own school for the right to...

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New UC-Berkeley chancellor says “NO” to ratings based on graduates’ earnings

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Posted by    Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 12:30pm

One of the most important arguments for a college education is that it increases the earnings potential for the graduate.

However, in the academic world of “unfair” practices, the new University of California- Berkeley chancellor has just added actually rating schools on post-graduate earnings…based on a new Obama administration plan.

A year ago...

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U. Texas at Austin Offers Graduate Course on Enrolling in Obamacare

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Posted by    Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 11:00am

If you needed definitive proof that absolutely no one understands Obamacare, here you go. A university is now offering a grad course on the subject.

Red Alert Politics reports via the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Obamacare enrollment so difficult it gets its own grad course

Enrolling in Obamacare may be more difficult than...

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Catholic U. Says Show Must Go on for Church Bashing Hip-Hop Group

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Posted by    Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 9:30am

Students at a Catholic University are objecting to a musical event headlined by a group that promotes view that are in “direct opposition with Catholic social teaching and Creighton’s stated values.”

However, administrators are saying, “The show must go on!”

Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. is distributing tickets to a Macklemore & Ryan...

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Ignorance on Full Display at Brown University Protests

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Posted by    Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 8:00am

If you missed the shameful display put on by some students at Brown University this week, you can read a comprehensive report at Legal Insurrection.

As a follow-up, we recommend reading this post from Minding the Campus by Heather Mac Donald.

The Blissfully Unaware Hecklers at Brown

The nauseating combination of ignorance, self-righteousness, entitlement,...

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USC’s Newest Hire: LA’s Notorious Former Mayor

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 6:30pm

Antonio Villaraigosa’s focus will be on Public Policy

We recently reported that former mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, known for outlandish expenditures of taxpayer monies and a scandal-ridden personal life,  joined Harvard University’s faculty as a visiting fellow.

The Los Angeles Times reports on his next stint and the school.

The most chilling part of the story: His specialty will...

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A Halloween Round-up of Scary Campus Ghost Stories

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 5:00pm

This entertaining and creepy compilation is brought to you by Katie Jones of The College Fix.

Haunted Halloween: A Spooky Round Up Of Campus Ghost Stories

A college campus is a great place for a ghost story to take root. From library stacks to lecture halls, universities are targets for students and locals alike to get their...

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FIRE’s Nico Perrino on the New Campus Culture of Surveillance

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 3:30pm

The stories we cover about The Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) mainly involve free speech rights.

However, in a new column, FIRE’s Nico Perrino discusses student privacy rights:

It monitors email and social media accounts, uses thousands of surveillance cameras to track behavior and movement, is funded by billions of dollars...

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New Book Examines Ties Between the Ivy League and Slavery in America

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 2:00pm

Money acquired through the slave trade has sometimes been whispered about as Brown University’s dirty secret. A new book examines those ties to Brown and Dartmouth.

Joseph Asch of Dartblog reports.

Slaves at Dartmouth

The New York Times has published a laudatory review of a new book, Ebony and Ivy, on the relationship of...

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Cornell students demand end to “male heterosexual” Big Red Bear mascot

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 12:30pm

The Cornell Big Red Bear is the mascot of Cornell University sports teams and attends not just sports events, but also alumni and other gatherings.

The person inside the suit does not need to be male, but a controversy is brewing on campus as to whether the Bear should exhibit “male...

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UNC School May Cut Majors in History, Physics and Political Science

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 11:00am

Budget cuts and decreased enrollment may cause Elizabeth City State University, one of 17 UNC campuses, to limit courses of study.

Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reports.

The End of History?

One of the 17 University of North Carolina campuses could stop offering degrees in physics, history...

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Oregon school district will let teachers carry guns in the classroom

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 9:30am

Some surprisingly conservative news has been coming from a very blue state recently.

We just reported that a conservative student paper won a big legal battle with Oregon St...

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Liberal Theology Prof Wants You to Know Christianity is Scarier Than Halloween

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 8:00am

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite is a religion blogger for the Washington Post. She’s also a professor. Let’s look at her bio page from the WaPo.

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite – Professor, Chicago Theological Seminary – Former president of Chicago Theological Seminary (1998-2008), Thistlethwaite is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

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Glitches in online college application program frustrate prospective students

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 6:30pm

The Obamacare exchange website isn’t the only one riddled with glitches to the point it is deeply frustrating hopeful applicants.

A cascade of glitches in a major online college application program has frustrated prospective students across the country and prompted several universities to push back their fall deadlines, exposing vulnerabilities in the...

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“Common Core is Obamacare for Education”

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 5:00pm

The video below is part of an internet based series called Afterburner with Bill Whittle of PJ Media. If you don’t watch it regularly, you should because it’s outstanding.

In this episode, Bill Whittle discusses Common Core, an education curriculum program championed by liberal progressives which we’ve addressed before at College Insurrection.

Be...

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Division and Hoaxes: The Race Industry on College Campuses

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 3:30pm

Critic and social commentator Roger Kimball recently took a detailed look at the race industry.

Some of his analysis included a look at its divisive presence on college campuses today, which included a divisive email and a probable hoax

…Racism, Inc. manufactures only one-way ratchets. That is to say, “all animals are equal,...

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Penn State to Pay Almost $60 Million to Victims of Jerry Sandusky

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 2:00pm

Money doesn’t erase memories of abuse but hopefully it will give these people a chance to start over.

Mark Scolforo of The Houston Chronicle reports.

Penn State: 26 people get $59.7M over Sandusky

Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the...

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Cal State Student: Man-Made Global Warming a Passing Fad

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 12:30pm

California State University – Fullerton student Keith Fiero says anthropogenic global warming, also known as man-made global warming, is a fad.

Our society’s obsession with mass catastrophes is nothing new. We were all there for the Y2K and mad cow disease scares. The Soviet bomb and an invasion from Mars haunted the...

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Hampshire College Cancels Afrobeat Band for Being too White

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 11:00am

Stupidity, political correctness and groupthink rear their ugly heads in Amherst once again.

Lori Stabile of Mass Live reports. Hat tip to Weasel Zippers.

Cancellation of Afrobeat band Shokazoba at Hampshire College’s Hampshire Halloween creates controversy

Shokazoba’s cancellation from the Hampshire Halloween event Friday night at Hampshire College, after one band member said they...

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Texas Students Protest Obamacare With ‘Bloody’ Signs and Professors’ Support

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 9:30am

If the Obama administration believed that young Americans were going to roll over and pay heavily for other people’s healthcare, then a recent demonstration is going to come as a very unpleasant surprise:

With props that included a severed plastic arm and signs that read “Obamacare,” “quality” and “affordable” written in fake blood, a...

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Brown University Rejects Divestment From Coal

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 8:00am

When it comes to the issue of divestment, it looks like Brown is taking a cue from Harvard.

Mark Reynolds of The Providence Journal reports.

Brown University Corp. won’t divest from companies using coal for electricity

The corporation of Brown University will try to address the issue of climate change through teaching, research and...

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“Rape Apologists” Becomes Campus Feminists’ New Battle Cry

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Posted by    Monday, October 28, 2013 at 6:30pm

We have been following the story of the young Ohio University couple who engaged in a public sex act that went viral in the new media.

In the wake of the notoriety, the young woman claims that she was being sexually assaulted. Jonathan Taylor, founder of A Voice for Men, takes a...

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