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UC Irvine Prof Tells Students NRA is to Blame for San Bernardino Shooting

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Posted by    Monday, December 7, 2015 at 2:00pm

It’s amazing how the left can blame the NRA for almost anything without even thinking about it.

Watch the video below.

Here’s more from Campus Reform.

VIDEO: UC biology prof. tells class NRA to blame for San Bernardino shooting

A biology professor at the University of California, Irvine subjected his class to an off-topic discourse...

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Student Journalist Hit With $8,000 Bill For Freedom of Information Act Request

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Posted by    Monday, December 7, 2015 at 12:30pm

What prompts Plymouth-Canton to block access to certain websites on school computers?

The Detroit News reports.

Student journalist hit with $8,000 bill for Freedom of Information Act request

Plymouth — Leola Gee’s number one lesson for her high school journalism students: Tell the truth, and deal with whatever comes.

But Gee never expected the quest...

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Editor of Harvard Law Paper Stands up to Demands for Censorship

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Posted by    Monday, December 7, 2015 at 11:00am

Michael Shammas is an admitted leftist but he publishes conservative articles despite cries for censorship from other leftists.

Here’s a piece he recently wrote on the subject.

A Note from the Editor-in-Chief: Why I Don’t Censor Conservative Articles

In an article I wrote earlier this year, “We Owe Each Other a Moral Community,” I...

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UCSB’s ‘White Student Union’ Releases List of Demands

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Posted by    Monday, December 7, 2015 at 9:30am

Among the demands? Banning Charlie Sheen- and pirate-themed parties.

The College Fix reports.

UCSB’s ‘White Student Union’ releases hilarious ‘list of demands’

Whoever is behind these White Student Union Facebook groups, there’s no question they’re enjoying poking fun at the extreme rhetoric and ridiculous demands of the Black Lives Matter student movement.

Case in point:...

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Brown Students Still Angry Despite School’s Commitment of $100 Million for Diversity

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Posted by    Monday, December 7, 2015 at 8:00am

It’s never enough for the left. If you try to solve the problem they’re complaining about, they find another problem.

They don’t want solutions, they want to keep protesting.

Emily Shire reports at the Daily Beast.

Brown University Professor Denounces ‘McCarthy’ Witch-Hunts

It would be difficult to accuse Brown University of ignoring or dismissing the...

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Liberty University President Urges Students to Arm Themselves

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Posted by    Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 5:00pm

This is just amazing. Watch below as the president of Liberty University urges students to get licensed to carry guns in order to be safe and to stop other attacks.

This is the opposite of what’s happening on most college campuses right now.

 
 
 
 

The Campus Protests Are Really About Power

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Posted by    Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 3:30pm

Don’t be fooled by safe spaces and demands for fairness. Jonathan Last of the Weekly Standard explains what the campus protests are really about.

It’s All About ‘Muscle’

The Obama administration—easily the most ideologically progressive in modern American history—has been accompanied by both liberal triumphalism and liberal outrage.

Three major protest movements have marked...

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UCSB Offers Counseling to Students Distressed by ‘White Student Union’

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Posted by    Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 2:00pm

Some college students these days are so mentally fragile.

The College Fix reports.

University offers counseling, support meeting to students distressed by ‘White Student Union’

UCSB also announces formation of ‘bias response team’

UC Santa Barbara has scheduled a meeting for Saturday afternoon meant to allow students distressed by the newly created “UCSB White Student...

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This is the Biggest Donation Ever Made to Cambridge or Oxford

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Posted by    Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 12:30pm

The gift was $52.9 million.

CNBC reports.

Biggest ever donation for Oxbridge college

Pembroke College, Cambridge, is set to benefit from what it says is the largest gift ever made to a Cambridge or Oxford college.
In a statement released this week, Lord Smith, a former cabinet minister under Tony Blair and now Master of...

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The Liberal Arts Are No Longer Liberal

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Posted by    Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 11:00am

Kevin J. Daley of the Federalist has written a new column which explores the current sorry state of the liberal arts.

How Liberal Education Became Illiberal

We must summon a miraculous indulgence of grace to greet with patience and good faith campus radicals across the country whose demands and quest for continued media...

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Quality Matters More Than Quantity For Writing Assignments

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Posted by    Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 9:30am

What is the best way to teach writing?

Inside Higher Ed reports.

With writing, study finds, quality of assignment and instruction — not quantity — matters

Much research suggests that more writing is associated with more learning, and that’s given more credence to the Writing Across the Curriculum movement, which promotes the importance of...

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Yale Students Complain Science Profs Not Culturally Sensitive Enough

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Posted by    Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 8:00am

Nothing is ever enough for the left. There is always a problem.

Breitbart reports.

Yale Students Say Science Professors Aren’t Culturally Sensitive Enough

The heated battle over cultural insensitivity at Yale University has a new victim: Science.

The Yale Daily News reports that many students question whether professors who teach science, technology, math, or engineering...

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Western Carolina University Approves Koch Funded Center Despite Opposition

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Posted by    Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 5:00pm

The faculty didn’t want this to happen but it was approved anyway.

The News and Observer reports.

Koch-funded center approved at Western Carolina University

Despite faculty opposition, Western Carolina University’s Board of Trustees approved the creation of a center on free enterprise funded by the conservative Charles Koch Foundation.

The board voted unanimously Friday to...

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Students From Corinthian Colleges Get Further Breaks on Debt Forgiveness

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Posted by    Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 3:30pm

These students are lucky to get this kind of assistance.

The Associated Press reports.

More Federal Loan Debt Forgiven for Corinthian Students

The government is erasing the loan debt of more than 7,000 former students of the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges – totaling over $100 million, but still representing a tiny fraction of a federal...

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St. Mary’s University to Defy Texas Campus Carry Law

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Posted by    Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 2:00pm

Whatever happened to obeying the law of the land?

Campus Reform reported.

St. Mary’s Univ. joins list of Texas private schools that say no to campus carry

St. Mary’s University in San Antonio has joined five other Texas schools in opting-out of a concealed carry law for college campuses.

“St. Mary’s, as a private institution,...

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New York Times Reports on Homeless College Students

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Posted by    Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 12:30pm

How common was it across the country for college students to struggle to come up with enough money for food or shelter?

The New York Times reports.

Hungry, Homeless and in College

THREE months after starting college, Brooke Evans found herself without a place to live. She was 19.

She slept in libraries, bathrooms and...

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Journalism Prof Says College Is Not a Safe Space

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Posted by    Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 11:00am

Hopefully, we’ll be hearing more people in academia talking like this now.

The FIRE blog reports.

Journalism Professor: ‘College Is Not a Safe Space’

In an insightful new piece for MediaShift, Shaheen Pasha, an assistant professor of international journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, gives her take on why college shouldn’t be the...

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College Football Has A Shortage of Teams for Bowl

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Posted by    Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 9:30am

As the number of Division I college football bowl games has spiked to a record 40 this postseason, not enough teams have the six wins required to participate.

Inside Higher Ed reports.

Too Few Teams? Or Too Many Bowls?

If 2015’s were a typical college football season, K...

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Muslim Students Disrupt And Heckle Human Rights Speaker

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Posted by    Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 8:00am

This happened at a school in London. Don’t violate anyone’s safe space.

The College Fix reports.

Muslim students disrupt, heckle human rights speaker, accuse her of ‘violating their safe space’

Iranian-born activist Maryam Namazie’s lecture on radical Islam at Goldsmiths University (London) this past Monday evening was disrupted by members of the Students Union’s...

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Upcoming Affirmative Action Hearing Makes U. Texas Students Worry About Diversity

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Posted by    Friday, December 4, 2015 at 6:30pm

According to some students at this school, there won’t be enough diversity without Affirmative Action.

USA Today reports.

At Texas’ flagship university, many fear for diversity

Garrett Maples came to the University of Texas from an almost all-white high school north of here in Liberty Hill.

Xavier Rotnofsky arrived from the Mexico border city of...

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University’s Unity Rally Descends Into Accusations of Racism

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Posted by    Friday, December 4, 2015 at 5:00pm

A recent unity event at Millersville University quickly went sour with accusations of racism.

Penn Live reports.

‘Unity’ event highlights accusations of racism at Millersville University

At Millersville University, a place where Black and Latino student populations have grown as much as 30 percent in recent years, minority students criticized administra...

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University of Tennessee Won’t Allow Christmas Parties

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Posted by    Friday, December 4, 2015 at 3:30pm

The school’s Orwellian ‘Office for Diversity and Inclusion’ has ruled that Christmas parties would be too exclusive.

FOX News reports.

University: Your holiday party cannot be a Christmas party in disguise

f you plan on having a Christmas party at the University of Tennessee be sure to leave the Baby Jesus and Santa Claus...

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