College Republicans and University Democrats at the University of Virginia recently held a forum for first years to talk political policy and make the case for their respective sides.
Peter Finocchio of The Virginia Advocate reports.
College Republicans and University Democrats Hold First-Year Political Forum
On Tuesday night the College Republicans and the University Democrats...
Sadly, this news isn’t surprising given the extraordinarily high unemployment for college grads.
Meghan Hoyer of USA Today reports.
10:57AM EST September 30. 2012 – Student loan defaults have risen for the sixth straight year, as students from traditional non-profit universities have an increasingly difficult time paying off...
At least one professor at the University of Wisconsin is very unhappy about the Obama campaign event which happened there Thursday, shutting down the campus.
The College Fix reports.
Professor protests Obama visit
A University of Wisconsin – Madison political science professor lambasted President Barack Obama’s campus visit today, saying it effectively shut down school, violated students’ privacy,...
Students across the nation are upset over policy dictates affecting their diet. Recently, students and teachers from a Kansas high school created a YouTube video parody protesting</...
Race-based school policies backfire, especially for black law students.
Accuracy in Academia just issued their monthly report, which covers how race-based preferences hurt minority students and could force students away from the practice of law.
Race-based college admission preferences actually hurt minority applicants, three members of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission allege. “There is a lot of research...
The College Conservatives at the University of Tampa have registered voters, worked phone banks and canvassed neighborhoods to talk to people. If only everyone was willing to be as active as these young people.
Paola Crespo of The Minaret reports.
UT College Conservatives Play Active Role in 2012 Campaigns
Marco Tarantino is the new...
Aslinn Scott is the Vice Chair of the College Republicans at the University of Colorado. She recently gave an interview to the CU Independent.
Roxanne Smith reports.
A glimpse at the life of a CU College Republican
The presidential election is approaching and many students are passionately standing up for what they believe in. Prominent...
Univision is poised to report details on the “Fast and Furious” scandal, providing incriminating information that has yet been unavailable to Congress.
Via The College Fix: The Daily
Caller reviews Attorney General Eric Holder’s radical college
years, since he is the center of the Department of Justice
scandal:
As a freshman at Columbia...
Danielle Charette of The College Fix is a student at Swarthmore College. In a recent piece at the Fix, she tells the story of her attempt to screen a film about Ronald Reagan. Although the screening would be free, she met nothing but roadblocks and mockery.
At Swarthmore College, Conservative Views...
The University of California Student Association, an organization apparently rife with anti-Semitic progressives, recently held a secret vote to pass a resolution declaring the nation of Israel to be racist.
Yes, this really happened.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports.
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) secretly passed a resolution last month which...
You’d be hard pressed to find two men more hard right and hard left than Rick Santorum and Howard Dean. I sure hope someone is planning to tape this and put it on YouTube.
Nkantro of the Cornell Insider has the story.
Santorum/Dean Debate Tickets Sell Out in Two Hours
Cornell’s biggest political event in...
You might think this is because some students feel they’re mature enough to share a room with a person of the opposite sex.
You’d be wrong. Read this post all the way to the end.
Alfonse Muglia of the Cornell Insider reports.
At its weekly meeting last Thursday afternoon, the Student Assembly adopted Resolution...
Students at the University of Wisconsin who want to attend an upcoming speech by Obama are being required to hand over their phone numbers which are being turned over to the Obama campaign.
Ann Althouse broke the story in a guest post at Instapundit.
October 2, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN REQUIRES STUDENTS TO...
You may have heard that the left is cracking down on free speech. FIRE reports that the thought police at the State University of New York at New Paltz are taking things too far. There’s at least
Sounds like Professor John McCarthy could use a nice quiet vacation.
Hat tip to Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters.
Brandon Howell of MLive reported.
Student: Michigan State professor ranted, stripped naked in apparent mental breakdown
EAST LANSING, MI — Professor John McCarthy has always seemed a bit odd to Kyle Hillman, but nothing could have prepared...
American Majority Action has launched a new website aimed at students who are disillusioned with Barack Obama and wish to campaign against him.
The site studentsagainstbarackobama.org went live on October 1st.
From the AMA blog…
“Students Against Barack Obama” Launched
A New York Times/CBS News poll earlier this month showed a dramatic tightening in the...
(and disgusting)
We reported that a University of Tennessee/Knoxville student was hospitalized with a near lethal dose of alcohol, achieved at an event during which he received an alcohol enema.
Inside Higher Ed‘s Alexandra Tilsley details the concerns of campus safety experts on this stunt, which seems to have been popularized by a scene...
The Washington Times recently took note of the burgeoning higher education bubble:
The cost of a college education has soared far in excess of the cost of health care. This is in spite of — or,...
Young Conservative Activists Create “Watch List” of Overtly Political Staffers
The rise of the Tea Parties has energized conservative students to create innovative approaches to deal with overt political messaging in classrooms by professors and other authority figures.
One good example is described by Mark Bauerlein in “Minding the Campus”:
The Daily Texan has reported that a conservative student group at University of...
Steven Crowder, a comedian and FOX News contributor, breaks down the 2012 election from the standpoint of a millennial.
Yes, I am a Millennial. Unfortunately I’m a part of the “self-esteem” era, where people my age tend to be very selfish. Not only that, but I’ve been raised with a generation of...
One of the most significant debates in the country today focuses on Voter Identification requirements.
In The College Conservative, Elissa Roberson (student at College of the Desert) dissects arguments against these rules.
Upon reading an article in the Huffington Post, there’s one argument they make that I’d like to rip to shreds: Voter...
A tale of progressive corruption and illegal activities in California. Progressives are pushing their tax the rich initiatives despite student objections and even a petition.
Keith Fierro of The College Conservative has the story.
California Universities Illegally Push Ballot Initiative Despite Student Outcry
On September 26th, Fresno State’s Associated Students, Inc. voted 7-6 to...
