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Grand Theft Auto V Steals Students’ Common Sense

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Posted by    Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 8:00am

Conservative activist and Campus Reform contributor Caleb Bonham recently asked some Colorado students about the violence against women depicted in the video game, Grand Theft Auto V.

The results were striking:

As the entertainment industry continues to embraces mankind’s deepest, darkest, most vile fantasies will you support it?

A number of students at Colorado...

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FIRE’s Speech Code of the Month: Salem State University

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Posted by    Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 6:00pm

The Foundation for Individual Tights in Education just announced Octobers Speech Code of the Month.

The recipient: Salem State University.

The Guide to Living on Campus for Massachusetts’ Salem State includes a Policy Against Racism (PDF) that applies to all students living in the university’s residence halls, spaces where students often speak the...

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College Physics Departments Imploding

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Posted by    Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 4:00pm

With few majors, and departments under threat, physicists say value isn’t reflected in numbers.

U. of Southern Maine is latest institution to consider closing its physics department due to a combination of tight money and low major numbers.

Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports on this trend, and what it may mean for the future of American physics.

If physicists ask some of the biggest possible...

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Baylor U. student on Sen. Durbin’s 2014 challenger

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Posted by    Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 2:00pm

As the 2014 election season gears up, Baylor University student Danny Huizinga reviews a key race that conservatives should follow:

After 17 years of Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Illinois will see a new conservative challenger – Doug Truax.

Truax, a West point grad, has never run for office before. He founded Veritas Risk...

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Radio show host offers Zimmerman Trial witness chance to go to “historically black college”

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Posted by    Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 12:00pm

One of the most stunning developments during the trial of George Zimmerman was the discovery of how poorly educated the star witness for the prosecution was, as she admitted she was unable to read cursive.

Now, radio show host Tom Joyner has offered Rachel Jeantel a full university scholarship with the stipulation...

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Wasbash College Student: Obama’s policy speech was “Einsteinian”…. Insanity

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Posted by    Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 10:00am

President Obama gave an economics-based speech at Knox College recently:

Wabash College student Christian Lopac noted it was “Einsteinian”…and not in a good way:

Most know the Einstein quip defining insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Fewer know that by this popular and valid definition President Obama’s...

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Meet Obamacare’s Patient Zero: Chattanooga State U. Student and OFA Volunteer

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Posted by    Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 8:00am

Given the wide system failures associated with the rollout of the Obamacare exchanges, the administration was quick to show at least one success story featuring a Chattanooga State U. student.

Just moments after writing a blog post Thursday morning, about the lack of information on Obamacare enrollees, Enroll America reached out with...

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Bad News – The government shutdown is affecting undergraduate political science essays

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Posted by    Friday, October 4, 2013 at 6:30pm

Does this sound like satire? It isn’t. The emphasis below is mine.

Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reports.

Government shutdown curbs academic research at many levels

WASHINGTON — A wide range of academic research across the country, from sophisticated biomedical experiments at the National Institutes of Health to undergraduate political science essays, was...

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College Student: Ted Cruz Leading the Way for Social Media

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Posted by    Friday, October 4, 2013 at 5:00pm

As the heated debates on Obamacare and the government shutdown continue, Hillsdale College student Hank Prim looks at use of social media by Senator Ted Cruz and what it may mean for conservatives.

Anyone that logged into Facebook or Twitter or any social media outlet in twenty-four hours during and following Senator...

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Higher Ed Obsessed with Trayvon Martin and Racism

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Posted by    Friday, October 4, 2013 at 3:30pm

In the academic bubble, it’s almost like Barack Obama was never elected.

Twice.

Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.

Universities Nationwide Champion Trayvon Martin, Claim Racism Still Exists

Universities have gone gaga for Trayvon Martin, heralding the young man’s death as an iconic symbol of a racist, unfair America, according to a long and growing list of...

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High Schooler Caught in Net of Zero Tolerance Policies

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Posted by    Friday, October 4, 2013 at 2:00pm

Student face felony weapons charges for fishing supplies.

A psychologist once classified “zero tolerance” policies as “psychotic”.

The merits of that opinion are confirmed with this piece by The Daily Caller’s Robby Soave:

The arrests of several students who unwittingly and accidentally violated school weapon policies has some Georgian lawmakers saying “zero tolerance” makes zero sense.

A Cobb County high school senior...

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LA Times Features Op-Ed by Radical Anti-Israel Prof

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Posted by    Friday, October 4, 2013 at 12:30pm

Just another example of the liberal media giving a megaphone to an anti-Israel academic.

Tamar Sternthal of Camera.org reports.

The LA Times’ Ongoing Assault on Israel

The editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times continues its ongoing assault on the legitimacy of the state of Israel with an Op-Ed yesterday by radical academic Neve Gordon...

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Cornell to hold Condom Couture Fashion Show

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, October 4, 2013 at 11:31am

It seems the fun, new trend on college campuses is to create sex-oriented events based on concerns about “student health”.

Recently, Hamilton College hosted a workshop on female orgasms. The University of South Carolina just held a “Porn and Pizza” party.

Now Cornell is holding a fashion show feature Condom Couture.

Cornell’s student reporter...

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College gender gap widened by choice of high school

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Posted by    Friday, October 4, 2013 at 11:00am

An interesting new study hows that the differences in the types of high schools boys and girls attend may contribute to the college gender gap.

Allie Grasgreen  of Inside Higher Ed explains:

Recent research has suggested various ways in which girls outperform boys in high school, making them more likely to go to...

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Student Ordered to Remove NRA t-shirt because it Promotes Violence

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Posted by    Friday, October 4, 2013 at 9:30am

Haven’t we been down this road before?

CBS Los Angeles reports.

OC High School Student Ordered To Remove NRA T-Shirt Because It Promotes Gun Violence

A student at a high school in Anaheim Hills said administrators ordered her to change out of a T-shirt that promoted the National Rifle Association.

Sophomore Haley Bullwinkle said when...

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Big-Time Porn Star Addresses NYU Students about Human Trafficking

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Posted by    Friday, October 4, 2013 at 8:00am

If one were to crunch the numbers, it is likely more porn stars are invited to speak at American colleges than conservatives.

That being noted, New York University (the home of the “Hookup Facebook Page”) recently hosted an event that featured one of the porn industry’s biggest stars for an appearance that...

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Baylor U. Student Asks “Should the Postal Service be Privatized?”

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Posted by    Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 6:30pm

Given the government shutdown, Baylor University student Danny Huizinga takes a look at a possible solution for replacing some of its services successfully.

This week, Britain announced that it would soon be privatizing its postal service, the Royal Mail. Estimated to be worth nearly three billion pounds ($4.8 billion dollars), the Royal Mail will...

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List of universities admitting undocumented students continues to grow

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Posted by    Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 5:00pm

America is a nation of immigrants and that’s one of the many things which makes it great but academia is allowing people who broke our immigration laws to cut in line.

How is that fair to the people who struggled to come to America legally?

The College Fix reports.

More Universities Now Admit Undocumented...

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U. Penn Prof: Racist Republicans caused shutdown because they hate black President

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

The last time we checked in with the University of Pennsylvania’s Anthea Bulter, she was upset over the harsh reaction to her assertion that God a white racist.

Her opinion on the current government shutdown is no less senseless.

Anthea Butler, everybody’s favorite Ivy League professor, blamed Republican racism for the government shutdown...

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UC Student Government Wants to Ban all Theme Parties

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Posted by    Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 2:00pm

The outrage industry is alive and well at the University of California. The UC student government is even seeking to ban all theme parties after a fraternity held a quinceanera themed party.

Quinceanera parties are a Mexican tradition and the theme was even suggested by Mexican members of the fraternity but that...

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No White Actresses Allowed in Columbia-Barnard’s “Vagina Monologues”

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Posted by    Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 12:30pm

A Northwestern student government nominee’s confirmation was blocked because he is a ‘heterosexual white male.’

Now, white female students need apply for an upcoming joint theatrical being produced by two other elite universities.

White vaginas need not apply.

That’s the long and short of a recent decision by producers of this year’s The...

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Florida Atlantic U. Disciplines Student Journalist for Practicing Journalism

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Posted by    Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 11:00am

Florida Atlantic University is clearly doing everything it can to reinforce its reputation as the worst place to attend college.

The Student Press Law Center reports.

Florida college punishes student reporter for failing to leave suicide scene

FLORIDA — Dylan Bouscher, editor-in-chief of Florida Atlantic University’s newspaper, the University Press, was surprised to be...

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