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Cornell student group gives scholarships to Illegal Immigrants

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Posted by    Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 2:00pm

Akane Otani of The Cornell Daily Sun reports.

Cornell Organization to Give Scholarships to Undocumented Students

With the cost of attending Cornell’s endowed colleges approaching $60,000 a year, the DREAM Team, a student organization, is awarding $5,000 in scholarships to the University’s undocumented students — an act it hopes will alleviate the financial...

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Bill O’Reilly featured in CU-Boulder ‘Tunnel of Oppression’ exhibit

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Posted by    Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 12:30pm

Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly has become a major target of progressive campus activism.

Recently, he was cited in the Harvard Crimson piece dissuading conservatives from applying to the school.  Now, a student display in Colorado slanders him in an offensive exhibit.

A recent “Tunnel of Oppression” student exhibit at CU Boulder that...

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Wheaton Professor Covers Jesus Statue With Dirt and Calls it Art

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Posted by    Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 11:00am

Don’t count on the MSM to cover this story.

Of course, if the professor was a conservative and did this to a statue of Obama…

The College Fix reports.

Professor Covers Jesus Statue With Vacuum Dirt, Calls It Art

Just in time for Easter comes news that an associate art professor at Wheaton College has...

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Ohio’s Sinclair Community College Scraps Speech Code

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Posted by    Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 9:30am

Any defeat of “speech codes” on college campuses is a victory for free speech and higher education as well.

Robert Shibley of The FIRE reports.

Victory: Ohio College Settles First Amendment Lawsuit, Scraps Speech Code

DAYTON, Ohio, March 12, 2013—Ohio’s Sinclair Community College (SCC) has settled a First Amendment lawsuit by revising an unconstitutional...

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NYU Prof: Consuming Large Sodas = Drunk Driving

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Posted by    Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 8:00am

Wow. A liberal professor at NYU agrees with Mayor Bloomberg’s nanny state statist policies. Who could have predicted such a thing?

Noah Glyn of National Review has the story.

NYU Professor Compares Drinking Large Sodas to Drunk Driving

In an op-ed in the New York Daily News on Friday, Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition...

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Student Loan Debt: A Sad “New Normal” for Young Americans

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 12:47pm

Student loan debt is slowly killing the “American Dream”.

Via Instapundit: Sadly, the burden of the debt is being accepted and handled as a “new normal”. And, as New York Times columnist Charles M. Bow notes, middle and low income families have been hurt most.

The student debt crisis may become a dangerous...

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Campus is the place Where Free Speech Goes to Die

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 11:30am

Oppressive speech codes and political correctness are smothering free speech in the one place where the free exchange of idea is supposed to be sacred.

Bruce Thornton of the Hoover Institution reports.

College: Where Free Speech Goes to Die

The value of the university once lay in its providing a nurturing space for what...

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Harvard Conservatives Blog skewers Harvard Crimson

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 10:00am

We recently covered an article that appeared in the Harvard Crimson in which the writers said conservatives weren’t welcome at Harvard.

Luciana E. Milano of the Harvard Conservatives blog has written a response to the Crimson.

Not Wanted at Harvard

I am disappointed that The Crimson has not apologized for but instead continues to defend...

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Oberlin College explains reaction to false KKK sighting

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 8:30am

Legal Insurrection has covered the closure of Oberlin College based on a false report of a “KKK-garbed” individual and the subsequent identification of

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42.1 percent of Brown U. students support abortion even in third trimester

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 6:57am

Be sure to read this entire report. As the Brown Spectator’s Editor Emeritus Ryan Fleming points out, Brown students are not only out of step with most Americans, but the entire western world.

How Extreme Are We?

It’s time for Brown students to see how far left-of-center...

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Some Ivy League students are not down with Hooking-Up

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Posted by    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 5:45pm

Between “Sex Week” events and “Hook-up” Facebook pages, it seems American students are only interested in sexual scholarship.

The College Fix contributor Ian Tuttle, a student at St. John’s College, reports that a Princeton student group is pushing back on the casual sex dogma:

Enter the Anscombe Society. Founded at Princeton University in...

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Law schools offering refunds for students who fail bar exams

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Posted by    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 4:30pm

Well, partial refunds, that is

This may be a “new normal” in education financing that a recent New York Times piece failed to anticipate: Law schools offering refunds!

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller has the details on an new marketing strategy being taken by two law shcools:

Consider Florida Coastal School of Law and Charlotte School of...

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E-mail Quest for Scandal Leaker at Harvard Stuns Faculty

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Posted by    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 3:00pm

Harvard University recently disciplined dozens of students caught in a cheating scandal.

The initial incident triggered widespread media coverage.  Now a New York Times writer Richard Perez-Pena reports that the school’s administration has c...

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My mom did not burn bras to support the vulgar direction campus progressives have taken feminism

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Posted by    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 1:13pm

My mother was one of those famed bra-burners in the 1960’s.

A brief history:

Women burned their bras because they felt that it proved a statement or made a stand for Women’s Rights. Another reason they burned their bras was because it was a symbol that showed independence of men at the time....

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St. Louis U. student takes on media bias

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Posted by    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 11:00am

Our country’s press has covered itself in shame, based on its handling of news regarding the Obama Administration (e.g., the Benghazi slaughter of Americans embassy staff, “Fast and Furious”).

Saint Louis University student Amy Lutz has some thoughts regarding the role leftist bias plays in the distorted reporting:

No government ought to be...

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U. Michigan to Host ‘The Race Card Project’

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Posted by    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 9:30am

Aren’t they already experts?

Since liberals have been playing the race card like experts for years, one has to wonder why they need to study it in an academic environment.

This article really proves that liberals have no sense of irony at all.

Oh and also, what could go wrong?

Via the Detroit Free Press.

Race Card Project comes...

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Brown Student: “many young liberal voters will soon find themselves under attack as they launch themselves into their careers”

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Posted by    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 7:00am

Young Americans helped reelect President Barack Obama.

And few groups of under 30 Americans worked harder to do so than those on progressive college and university campuses.

Brown University student J.P. Hare takes a look as to how the results of the 2012 election actually undermined the expensive Ivy League educations that Obama...

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New South Dakota Law Allows Teachers to Carry Guns

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Posted by    Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 5:00pm

Many liberals will criticize this law but it should be noted that the law allows school districts to choose whether or not they want teachers to be armed.

Remember when liberals thought choice was a good thing?

John Eligon of The New York Times reports.

South Dakota Law Will Allow Guns in Classrooms

Gov. Dennis...

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College Students Fund Big Sign-Off Bonuses for Administrators

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Posted by    Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 3:00pm

In a new post at Via Meadia, Walter Russel Mead explains how students are paying big money that’s sometimes used to buy out college administrators.

Colleges Bleeding Students to Buy Golden Parachutes for Administrators

College administrators have found an interesting new way to strike it rich: quitting their jobs. Upon leaving his role...

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Man pleads guilty in Florida A&M hazing death

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 1:00pm

Too often, we cover deaths associated with hazing rituals.

Alcohol poisoning is typically the cause.  However, last year, an aspiring college drum major at Florida A&M...

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80% of graduating NYC high school students can’t read

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Posted by    Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 11:00am

New York’s community college system struggles to correct the tragic situation.

In his book, The K-12 Implosion, Instapundit Glenn Reynolds reports that many parents are pulling their kids out of large urban school districts.

Today, he offers one of the reasons parents are opting for different educational choices: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read.

These results also directly impact on...

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Ron Paul Speaks to Conservatives and Libertarians at George Washington University

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Posted by    Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 9:30am

When Congressman Ron Paul retired last year, he said he was going to spend more time speaking on college campuses.

Looks like he’s staying true to his word.

Betsi Fores of The Daily Caller has the scoop.

Ron Paul preaches revolution, provides advice for GOP

WASHINGTON — The revolution is here, but it will not...

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