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Anti-Feminist ‘Princeton Mom’ Lands Book Deal

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 9:30am

Princeton mom Susan A. Patton detonated a feminist advice  bomb when she wrote a letter recommending young women find husbands before they graduate.

And while progressive feminists deride Patton’s assertions, it looks like the Ivy League mom is laughing all the way to the bank.

Susan Patton, a Princeton alumna whose son currently...

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Texas YMCA boots pro-life student group

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 8:00am

Everyone is aware that YMCA stands for Young Men’s Christian Association, right?

Nathan Harden of The College Fix reports.

YMCA Kicks Out Pro-Life Student Group

Texas has been at the center of the national debate over abortion lately. Abortion advocates all over the country celebrated the publicity stunt state senator Wendy Davis pulled with...

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Families forced to endure rising cost of college tuition

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 6:30pm

Dramatic increases in the cost of a college education are putting a strain on families all over America.

Collin Binkley and Abby Smith of the Columbus Dispatch report.

Families forced to cope with the rising cost of college

WASHINGTON — As a student at Ohio University in 1975, Margaret Lyons paid her $150 quarterly...

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U. Penn students join NYT in fisking story about “Hook-up Culture” on campus

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 5:00pm

University of Pennsylvania students have joined the New York Times in fisking a recent article by Kate Taylor about the “Hook-Up culture” at their campus.

Writer Susan Walsh takes a look at alternative statistics and additional student comments, which run counter to what Taylor indicated was the current state of student...

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Georgetown to cover contraception despite Catholic Church teachings

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 3:30pm

No wonder famous Georgetown alum William Peter Blatty is asking the church to revoke Georgetown’s Catholic school status.

The College Fix reports.

Catholic Georgetown University To Cover Contraception

The Catholic Georgetown University will cover contraception, a recent memo from the president to the campus community stated:

In late June, the Obama Administration issued final regulations...

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Administrator explains why “English only” nursing student was suspended

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 2:00pm

We recently covered the story of a nursing student at Pima Community College (PCC), who filed a lawsuit claiming that she was illegally suspended after she complained that her classmates were speaking in Spanish and orally translating English to Spanish so excessively that she was failing to learn.

The administrator responsible for...

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America’s Education Chief Arne Duncan has no education background

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 12:30pm

When Chicago lawyer Matt Farmer recently cross examined Annette Gurley, the Chicago Public School System’s Chief of Teaching and Learning, he uncovered a startling fact about Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education.

Startling to him, perhaps.  Those of us who pay close attention to President Obama’s usual priorities in selecting high...

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Laney College offers Community Organizing 101

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 11:00am

Laney College is a public, state funded school located in lovely Oakland, California, a city known for some of the most violent and destructive Occupy protests.

As Eric Owens of The Daily Caller points out, that might not be an accident.

State-funded college now pretty much offering Occupy studies program; register now!

Hey kids!...

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The University of California has 2,358 administrators

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 9:30am

Read that headline again and then do a little math in your head. If you think the unfunded liabilities for the City of Detroit look bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Richard Vedder of Bloomberg News reports.

What Do 2,358 College Administrators Do?

For at least a half-century, the University of California has been...

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Mom Puts Harvard Bound Son’s Virginity on Craigslist

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 8:00am

Perhaps this young scholar will be signing up for Masculinity Studies?

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller had this little doozy recently, ICYMI: “Craigslist mom seeks hottie to take Harvard-bound son’s virginity in exchange for new car.”

Everybody knows that Craigslist is the best place in the world to find random, possibly diseased...

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Feds will investigate Swarthmore College’s handling of sex assault cases

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Posted by    Monday, July 22, 2013 at 6:30pm

In May, we reported that students at Swarthmore College and three other institutions had filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education over the institutions’ alleged mishandling of sexual misconduct cases.

Now, federal education officials are investigating Swarthmore’s handling of sexual harassment allegations following these complaints.

Department of Education spokesman Jim Bradshaw said...

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Is the English major an endangered species?

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Posted by    Monday, July 22, 2013 at 5:00pm

That seems to be the point writer Danielle Charette is making in a new post at Intercollegiate Review. Though she also seems to suggest that the reduced number of English majors presents an opportunity to get back to basics.

The endangered English major

The latest Saturday essay in the Wall Street Journal goes...

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American Jewish Student Denied Entry to UK Due to Israeli Stamps in Passport

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Posted by    Monday, July 22, 2013 at 3:30pm

American Jewish students are too often the targets of faith-based harassment, as when a Hamas student union posts cartoon depicting Jews as trash.

Now that harassment seems to have gone international, as in the case of one young scholar who wanted to travel to the United Kingdom for a work opportunity; The...

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Former DOE official under federal investigation

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Posted by    Monday, July 22, 2013 at 2:00pm

Here’s an Obama administration scandal no one has heard about. Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.

Right Back After Investigation

At the D.C. Newseum, a policy summit sponsored by the National Journal and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation outlined the modern problems facing colleges, faculty and students. However, most of the...

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How U. Wyoming cops busted liberal student-activist rape-hoaxer

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Posted by    Monday, July 22, 2013 at 12:30pm

We chronicled the story of Meghan Lanker-Simons, the University of Wyoming student charged with interference with a police investigation after she allegedly posted on an anonymous social media page that she would like to engage in angry sexual intercourse with someone named….. “Meg Lanker Simons.”

The Daily Caller’s Eric Owns share a...

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Are you ready for Masculinity Studies?

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Posted by    Monday, July 22, 2013 at 11:00am

Since feminine studies and gender studies have been with us for decades, it was only a matter of time before someone proposed masculine studies.

Cathy Young of Minding the Campus reports.

Uh-Oh–Here Come Masculinity Studies

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my quest to track down a shocking “fact” from an acclaimed gender-studies...

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AZ college student sues school for suspension over English-only class request

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Posted by    Monday, July 22, 2013 at 9:30am

Nursing program director response: Called student a “bigot and a bitch.”

File this story under “Diversidad y la Tolerancia.”

A nursing student at Pima Community College (PCC) has filed a lawsuit claiming that she was illegally suspended after she complained that her classmates were speaking in Spanish and orally translating English to Spanish so excessively that she was failing to learn.

In early April,...

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Young women turn to egg donation to fund college

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Posted by    Monday, July 22, 2013 at 8:00am

It’s come to this. College is so expensive, some young women are paying for their educations by donating their eggs which can sell for thousands of dollars.

Cody Rhodes of 13 WMAZ reports.

College Females Turn to Egg Donations to Fund School

With tuition fees and interest rates on student loans being...

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College dropout raises $18 million to build virtual reality headset

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Posted by    Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 5:00pm

We recently profiled 19 20-somethings who became stars. Here’s one more person for that list.

Steven Tweedie reports at Seattle PI.

How A 20-Year-Old College Dropout Raised $18 Million To Build The Perfect Virtual Reality Headset

Forget about the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, the real game-changer in video games is a new virtual...

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AP invalidates San Francisco Bay Area school’s test scores due to ‘seating irregularities’

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Posted by    Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 3:30pm

Given the wave of cheating scandals in this country, and the cavalier attitude toward honest scholarship at the international level, it is good to see one organization take some initiative in fighting this trend.

The College Board and Educational Testing Service has invalidated more than 200 Advanced Placement tests at a San...

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Liberal law prof. says gay marriage will lead to incest and polygamy

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Posted by    Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 2:00pm

Critics of gay marriage have long argued that approval of the issue would open the flood gates to things like polygamy. Liberal law professor Kent Greenfield of Boston College Law School agrees.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.

Leftist law professor says gay marriage likely to lead to legalized incest, polygamy

In the...

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UCLA Student Reporter Covers “Smash White Supremacy Fun Run”

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Posted by    Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 12:30pm

Event was organized as Westwood’s “Justice for Trayvon Martin” rally.

One of the cities targeted for the recently organized “Justice for Trayvon Martin” rallies was Los Angeles.

Westwood, the LA suburb that is home to the University of California-Los Angeles, was a site of one of these demonstrations. The Daily Bruin student reporter, Amanda Schallert, filed this report:

At least one person was...

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