The campus housing crunch is so bad that NYU has some students who are living in a fairly expensive hotel.
The New York Times reports.
$300-a-Night Hotel Houses N.Y.U. Students
Each fall, thousands of students take up residence in New York City to attend colleges and universities, exacerbat...
“Don’t publish anything that might offend anyone.”
FIRE reports.
It’s Already Been a Remarkably Bad Year for Student Press
Many student journalists are being taught an unfortunate lesson by college administrators and their fellow students lately: Don’t publish anything that might offend anyone.
That this advice is antithetical to a free press, and that journalists...
Yik Yak is an anonymous social media application and feminists claim people are using it for harassment. Government to the rescue.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Women’s Groups Urge Colleges and Government to Rein In Yik Yak
Seventy-two women’s and civil-rights groups on Wednesday announced a campaign to enlist the federal government in...
Robert P. George and his social views are highly sought perspective from about half the GOP candidates for president.
From Bloomberg Politics:
Half the Republican Field Seeks Advice From This Princeton Professor
Robert P. George is not a political consultant. “I’m not Karl Rove or David—what’s his name?—Axelrod.” In fact, he says, “Any...
Progressives are intent on making sure no one has fun on campus anymore.
Alex Morey reports at the FIRE blog.
Party Poopers: University Administrators Chill Speech by Investigating Campus Gatherings
Earlier this month, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) administrators temporarily suspended a campus fraternity and sorority for hosting a “Kanye Western”-themed party before...
Science!
From The Batt:
Study: no correlation between CHLs, crime
October has already seen three separate school shootings, the most deadly of which killed 10 people and injured seven. But while a national discussion on whether or not the government should closer regulate guns in America continues to trend, one study by the A&M...
Do leftists ever appreciate that without our founding fathers, they wouldn’t have the right to criticize them?
The College Fix reports.
Students supporting Thomas Jefferson statue accused of white privilege, ‘defending slave owners’
An energetic group of conservative students at the University of Missouri converged around a statue of Thomas Jefferson on Tuesday to...
The reason is a ‘lack of commitment’.
Daily Bruin reports.
Undocumented students call on UC to address unfulfilled commitments
Undocumented students from different University of California campuses assembled Monday outside the UC Office of the President in Oakland to express their frustration about what they called a failure to address issues that affect...
A female law professor at Miami University who’s opposed to campus carry made a rather problematic statement about women and guns.
Awr Hawkins reported at Breitbart.
Law Professor on Campus Carry: Women Can’t Use Guns Effectively
During October 20 testimony on the campus carry legislation currently under consideration by Florida lawmakers, Miami University law...
The audience applauded the decision.
Chicago Tribune reports.
College of DuPage board fires Robert Breuder
After months of public controversy and numerous investigations, College of DuPage trustees fired President Robert Breuder on Tuesday night and ended his controversial tenure at the state’s largest community college.
The board voted 4-1 to immediately terminate Breuder, leading to...
The student government at the University of Southern California is on the verge of enacting a host of far left policies.
Peter Fricke reports at Campus Reform.
Southern Cal student government considering racial quotas
The University of Southern California student government will soon vote on a resolution calling for a number of eye-popping diversity...
Technology done right.
ABC News reports:
Friends Use iPhone App to Find Missing College Student
A college student who went missing after a sorority semi-formal was found by his friends two days later, lying face down in a ditch next to train tracks.
Jimmy Hubert, an engineering student at Georgia Tech, was last seen Friday...
Talk about academic priorities. An all day affair on left-wing issues?
The College Fix reports.
Professors cancel classes for daylong, campuswide teach-in on racism, climate change
Many Bowdoin College professors recently canceled classes to help host a campuswide teach-in focused on the intersection between climate change, racism and social justice.
Students at the private liberal arts...
Campus free speech, the least free of them all.
From FIRE:
Party Poopers: University Administrators Chill Speech by Investigating Campus Gatherings
Earlier this month, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) administrators temporarily suspended a campus fraternity and sorority for hosting a “Kanye Western”-themed party before even completing an investigation into allegations that some attendees...
When I read this article by author Suzanne Venker at FOX News, I began to see why the school dropped her. You probably will too.
Williams College’s ‘Uncomfortable Learning’ speaker series dropped me. Why?
For the past two months, I’ve been preparing a speech for my upcoming visit to Williams College in Massachusetts....
Another college revokes an honorary degree.
Penn Live reports.
Bill Cosby loses honorary degree from Franklin & Marshall College
Bill Cosby has lost another honorary degree, this time from Franklin & Marshall College.
The college’s board of trustees voted unanimously last week to revoke the honorary degree in humane letters that was bestowed on Cosby,...
It wouldn’t be surprising to see more of this in the future.
Ashe Schow reports at the Washington Examiner.
Brown University student sues his accuser for defamation
In a rarity for campus sexual assault accusations, a Brown University student who says he was falsely accused is suing his accuser as well as his...
At least two women were filmed.
Toronto Star reports.
University of Toronto alters bathroom policy after two reports of voyeurism
The University of Toronto has decreased the number of gender-neutral bathrooms in one of its colleges after two women became victims of voyeurism when they were filmed while showering.
Toronto Police Const. Victor Kwong said...
In an op-ed for the Democrat and Chronicle, Barbara LeSavoy, a women and gender studies professor at the College at Brockport urges Obama to ban guns.
Obama’s legacy on guns should be to ban them
I urge President Obama to ban firearm possession in America....
Another one bites the dust.
Penn Live reports:
Bill Cosby loses honorary degree from Franklin & Marshall College
Bill Cosby has lost another honorary degree, this time from Franklin & Marshall College.
The college’s board of trustees voted unanimously last week to revoke the honorary degree in humane letters that was bestowed on Cosby,...
Mississippi’s state flag is made up in part by the image of the Confederate flag so some people want it taken down.
WGNO News reports.
Push to remove state flag from Ole Miss campus
Change often comes slowly at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where tradition is revered.
But student leaders could challenge the...
Because these two things are related?
From Church Militant:
Notre Dame Mandates Course on Gender Theory and Feminism
The University of Notre Dame has replaced a mandatory physical education class in favor of a new class on gender theory and feminism.
Named Moreau First Year Experience after Bd. Basil Moreau, C.S.C., founder of the...
