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Purdue Staffer Who Resigned Over Rape Comment Now Suing Pro-Life Group

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 6:30pm

A pro-choice university employee resigned over a perceived rape threat in an abortion argument.

The College Fix reports.

Purdue staffer who said he’d rape women to test pro-life conviction hints he’ll sue pro-life group

What started as an abortion awareness campaign for Black History Month at Purdue University ended with a pro-choice university employee’s...

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Donations Drop at University of Missouri Due to Protests

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 5:00pm

This is where things get serious for university officials. It’s all fun and games until the fundraising dries up.

Fox News St. Louis reports.

Donations drop following unrest at University of Missouri

A University of Missouri official says about $2 million in donations have been lost in fallout from the Columbia campus unrest...

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College Payments Can Be Insured

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 3:30pm

Insure your college payments much as you would a car or any other costly item.

New York Post reports.

How to safeguard your college payments with insurance

With four years of college tuition costing as much as a Lexus, there’s now the option to insure your college payments much as you would a car...

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Washington University Sex Week Includes Kink and Contraceptives

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 2:00pm

If rape culture is such a big problem on campuses, why are there events like this?

Campus Reform reports.

Wash. U. students learn about kink, make crafts from contraceptives at Sex Week

This week is “Sex Week” at Washington University in St. Louis, where students can learn about sex toys, “the politics of pleasure,”...

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College Professors Can’t Speak Millennial

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 12:30pm

Professors teach students daily, but don’t know their slang.

Red Alert Politics reports.

College professors try (and fail) to guess millennial slang

College professors love to make their students read their work, understand their opinion, and listen to them — but they often don’t speak to millennials.

USA Today’s Collin Brennan interviewed several professors from...

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Georgia House Passes Campus Carry Despite Democrat Opposition

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 11:00am

Good news for student gun owners out of Georgia.

Breitbart reports.

Campus Carry Passes House Committee In Georgia Amid Democrat Protest

On February 16, Campus Carry legislation passed in Georgia’s House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.

Democrats “protested” the vote, claiming committee chairman Alan Powell called up the legislation for a vote without giving...

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Princeton Prof’s Racist Claims Against Officers Found False

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 9:30am

“Based upon that review, the officer’s conduct is to be commended, not criticized.”

The College Fix reports.

Investigation: Princeton prof’s ‘racist treatment’ claim false

The Mercer County (New Jersey) Prosecutor’s Office has released the results of its preliminary investigation into the arrest of Princeton’s Imani Perry, and found that...

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Harvard Law Students Take Over Student Center

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Posted by    Friday, February 19, 2016 at 8:00am

The problem is a hall named after someone who owned slaves.

The Harvard Crimson reported.

Law School Activists Occupy Student Center

Student activists began to occupy a portion of Harvard Law School’s Caspersen Student Center Monday evening in an effort to create a space on campus...

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College Radicals Have Embraced Middle-Class Bourgeois Values

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 6:30pm

Sorry Bernie.

New York Post reports.

Today’s ‘radical’ college kids actually want boring lives

Today’s college freshmen are more likely to protest than any generation in five decades. But don’t prepare for the revolution just yet; this generation’s social-justice warriors are actually pretty bougie.

That’s according to a new survey from the Higher Education Research...

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University of Texas Head Unhappily Complies With Campus Gun Rules

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 5:00pm

The left will continue to fight new campus carry laws. You can tell how much they despise this.

ABC News reported.

University of Texas Head Begrudgingly OKs Campus Gun Rules

Concealed handguns will be allowed in University of Texas classrooms but generally banned from dorms under rules begrudgingly approved Wednesday by the school’s president,...

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College Student Group Sells AntiZionist Gear

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 3:30pm

The anti-Israel student group chillingly noted: “100% of profits goes towards organizing Palestinian resistance.”

The Blaze reports.

‘Sweet F***ing AntiZionist Gear’: College Student Group Promotes Sale of Shirts Featuring Notorious Palestinian Hijacker

Imagine a college student group promoting the sale of novelties featuring a photo of 9/11 hijacker and mastermind Mohamed Atta.

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Campus Crime Alert at University of Iowa Includes Trigger Warning

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 2:00pm

Don’t the people behind this sort of thing see how silly it looks to average people?

The College Fix reports.

University of Iowa puts trigger warning on campus crime alert

The University of Iowa put a trigger warning on a campus crime alert informing students about a man filming a female student taking a shower.

The alert,...

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How Should Republicans Respond to Free College?

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 12:30pm

Remember nothing is free.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Dems promise ‘free’ college, GOP searching for response

As Republican candidates visit college campuses as part of their campaigns, a conservative vision for higher education has started to emerge, finally.

For John Kasich, that happened at Michigan State University. He explained his thoughts on higher education in...

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U. Montana Football Player to Get $245K Settlement After Being Cleared of Rape

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 11:00am

A jury found this former student innocent of a rape accusation and he’s getting a large settlement.

FOX News reports.

Montana to pay ex-quarterback $245G over rape investigation

Montana will pay a former University of Montana quarterback $245,000 to drop his claims that school officials mishandled a rape investigation against him that drew national...

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Providence College Students Protest Over Alleged Racism

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 9:30am

The college president just signed an agreement promising to create a more inclusive environment.

ABC News reports.

College Students Allege Racism, Get President’s Commitment

Students protesting over allegations of campus racism at a Catholic college said Tuesday night they’d gotten the college’s president to sign an agreement promising to create a more inclusive environment.

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Georgetown Prof Unhappy With School’s Show of Respect for Scalia

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Posted by    Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 8:00am

The death of Justice Scalia has really brought out the worst in some people.

The Daily Caller reports.

Georgetown Professor Complains After School Shows Respect For Antonin Scalia

Given that Scalia earned his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown, it would seem fitting for the school to honor such an illustrious alumnus after his passing. Georgetown...

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Wheelock College Professors Filed Federal Workplace Discrimination Complaints

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 6:30pm

They allege anti-Semitic discrimination.

USA Today reports.

Wheelock College professors allege anti-Semitic discrimination

Two Jewish professors at Wheelock College in Boston have filed federal workplace discrimination complaints against the school, claiming they were subjected to anti-Semitic discrimination after writing an article alleging a lack of Jewish perspectives at the school, The Boston Globe reports.

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Colleges Ignore Congressional Request to Change Speech Codes

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 5:00pm

As long as academia remains in control of progressives, this will be an issue.

Campus Reform reported.

33 schools ignore Congressional request to change restrictive speech codes

Thirty-three public colleges have elected to ignore a deadline to respond to the House Judiciary Committee’s request to adopt new speech codes on campus.

Bob Goodlatte, who chairs...

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College for Prisoners Costs How Much?

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 3:30pm

New Yorkers pay about $60,000 per inmate per year.

The New York Times reports.

A College Education for Prisoners

States are finally backing away from the draconian sentencing policies that swept the country at the end of the last century, driving up prison costs and sending too many people to jail for too long,...

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Prager University – A Progressive’s Guide to Political Correctness

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 2:00pm

In a new video from Prager University, George Will offers a step by step guide to political correctness from a progressive point of view.

Watch below.

Here’s more information:

Is there a point where the “P.C. Police” are satisfied? Are there ever “enough” rules governing the jokes we tell, the mascots of sp...

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Washington Senator Wants Students To Be Able To Refinance Federal College Loans

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 12:30pm

This would be a rewrite of the federal government’s Higher Education Act.

The Seattle Times reports.

Sen. Murray wants students to be able to refinance federal college loans

Fresh off her success at striking a bipartisan deal to replace the federal government’s biggest education law with a new one, the Every Child Succeeds Act,...

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Mizzou Denied Funding Increase Over Racial Protests

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Posted by    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 11:00am

This isn’t social justice, it’s just plain old regular justice.

Red Alert politics reports.

Following racial protests, Missouri legislature denies funding increase for Mizzou

Last week, lawmakers at the statehouse in Missouri denied a budget increase to the University of Missouri over the handling of campus protests that led to the resignation of university president...

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