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January, 2016  (Page 7)

Battle Continues Over Campus Carry in Texas

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Posted by    Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 3:30pm

Opponents aren’t giving up this issue without a fight.

KTRH News reports.

Fight Continues Over Campus Carry

Texas’ new campus carry law doesn’t take effect until August 1, but state universities are facing pressure from all sides about how to implement the law. The measure, passed by last year’s Legislature, allows those with concealed...

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Wisconsin Students Told Not to Chant U-S-A at Games

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Posted by    Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 2:00pm

There are many people on the left who are made uncomfortable by chants of U-S-A.

FOX Mews reports.

Students advised to stop chanting ‘U-S-A, U-S-A’ and ‘air ball’

The wussification of Wisconsin has begun.

Last month the state’s governing body for high school athletics declared that chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A,” is unsportsmanlike behavior.

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic...

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College Is Not A Right

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Posted by    Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 12:30pm

Some gruesome reality to get some people into the real world.

The Blaze reports.

Sorry Kid, You Don’t Have The Right To A College Education

Things cost money, Student. Everything costs money. You better get used to it, because, out here in the real world, that gruesome reality will smack you in the face...

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Penn State Wants Students to Report Microaggressions to Administrators

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Posted by    Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:00am

Turning college students into snitches.

The College Fix reports.

Penn State asks students to report microaggressions to administrators

At Pennsylvania State University, no hurt feeling is too small, no slight too inconsequential, no unintentionally biased statement too unimportant.

Administrators want to know it all.

The public university is in the midst of a massive campaign that...

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Muslim Cleric Tours UK Universities Saying It’s OK to Hit Women

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Posted by    Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 9:30am

He advocates for hitting women and outlines the Islamic case for sex slavery and polygamy.

Daily Mail reports.

‘It’s fine to hit a wife who doesn’t please you’: What Islamic cleric is telling students as he tours British universities unchallenged… and he’s not alone

An Islamic cleric who defends domestic violence is among a...

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University of California Student Leaders More Concerned About Inclusivity Than Free Speech

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Posted by    Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 8:00am

This is what happens when feelings are more important than anything.

The FIRE blog reports.

University of California Student Leaders: Free Speech Shouldn’t ‘Distract’ from Inclusivity Discussions

The University of California (UC) Board of Regents has been at the center of a months-long debate over its problematic “Statement of Principles Against Intolerance,” proposed to...

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UCSB to Host Discussion on Safe Spaces for Fat Gay Men

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 6:30pm

From the department of you can’t make this stuff up.

Campus Reform reports.

UCSB to host discussion on ‘safe spaces’ for ‘fat, gay men’

The University of California, Santa Barbara will host a book discussion next week to discuss “the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture,” specifically for “fat, gay men.”

The event, a...

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Police Officer Recognized for Serving Penn State for 50 Years

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 5:00pm

It’s nice to hear a story about a cop being honored by a university, isn’t it?

Centre Daily reports.

Penn State police officer serves university for 50 years

Penn State Lt. Stew Neff had no idea 50 years ago that he would dedicate the majority of his life to public service.

On Jan. 10, 1966,...

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School Forces Students to Attend Racial Identity Classes on MLK Jr. Day

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 3:30pm

MLK wanted people judged on their character. How does this honor his memory?

Joel B. Pollak reported at Breitbart.

High School Forces Students to Attend ‘Racial Identity’ Classes on MLK Jr. Day

New Trier High School, one of the country’s top public schools, is forcing students to attend seminars on racial identity on Dr....

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USC Forces Students to Disclose Their Sexual Histories

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 2:00pm

What an astounding invasion of privacy.

Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.

USC Forces Students To Disclose Sexual History To Sign Up For Classes

A mandatory online course for students at the University of California (USC) orders them to disclose how many sexual partners they’ve had and other personal details about their...

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New Arizona Bill Supports Concealed Carry on Campus

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 12:30pm

State lawmakers have unsuccessfully pushed to allow guns on campus several times over the past decade.

AZ Central reports.

Bill would allow Arizona college students to carry concealed weapons on campus

Three months after a Northern Arizona University student was killed and three others wounded in a campus shooting, an Arizona lawmaker is pushing...

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Alabama Republican Fights for Concealed Carry on Campus

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 11:00am

Another bid for greater freedom on campus from a Republican.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Alabama Rep. files bill ‘to eliminate every gun-free zone I possibly can’

Another legislator has brought concealed weapons on campus to the fore of debate. This time, it’s Alabama.

Though the 2016 legislative session h...

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Kentucky GOP Senator Is Trying to Freeze College Tuition

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 9:30am

He says public universities are building too many costly facilities while leaving students smothered in debt.

Courier-Journal reports.

Effort underway to freeze Ky college tuition

FRANKFORT, Ky. Despite years of budget cuts to higher education, a Louisville lawmaker wants to freeze college tuition in Kentucky and says public universities are building too many costly...

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Student Activists Demand University Launch Queer Studies Program

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 8:00am

Why not churn out more graduates with useless degrees? Everyone else is doing it.

The College Fix reports.

Student activists, women’s studies department demand university launch ‘queer studies’ program

Student activists and Women’s and Gender Studies professors at a top-ranked public research university in California have banded together to demand administrators launch a “queer...

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Prof Tells College Students Most Terrorists Are Conservative White Men

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 6:30pm

This stunning video is from the College Fix.

Watching this video will give you an idea of just how far left academia has gone in recent years.

Here’s more from the College Fix.

VIDEO: College students taught most U.S. terrorists ‘conservative’ white men

Most acts of terrorism in America...

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Mizzou Blames Enrollment Decline on Racial Unrest

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 5:00pm

This is what denial looks like. The University of Missouri has a bigger problem on its hands than anyone there is willing to admit.

Campus Reform reports.

Mizzou attributes decline in applications to racial unrest

Applications for enrollment are noticeably down for the upcoming school year, and administrators blame the recent campus protests for...

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George Washington University Latest School to Rescind Cosby’s Honorary Degree

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 3:30pm

This situation with Bill Cosby is going to get worse before it gets better.

The Washington Post reports.

George Washington University rescinds Bill Cosby’s honorary degree

George Washington University’s president announced Monday that the honorary degree presented to Bill Cosby in the 1990s would be revoked, the latest college to back away from the...

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Prager University – Sticks and Stones

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 2:00pm

A new video from Prager University features FOX News host Tom Shillue comparing the standards of his youth to today’s hypersensitive environment.

This is very entertaining.

Here’s more information:

Is it true that sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you? Yes, but only if you choose to not...

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Tuition is Up at Public Universities Since the Recession

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 12:30pm

Arizona has increased its tuition the most at 72%.

Fortune reports.

Public University Tuition Has Jumped 28% Since Recession

Even years after the end of the recession, state budgets for higher education are still suffering.

Since the Great Recession, when states slashed their budgets for public higher education, support for public universities remains far below...

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Harvard Law Prof Wades Into Cruz Eligibility Issue

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 11:00am

Most experts agree that Cruz is eligible and that this is a settled issue.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Harvard law prof: Originalist interpretation would make Cruz ineligible

It’s the birther controversy all over again, this time to do with Ted Cruz and the Republican Party. And just like Hillary Clinton had started the birther movement against...

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University Lobbyists Provide Free Football Tickets for Lawmakers

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 9:30am

An unusual way to lobby.

The Academe Blog reports.

University Lobbyists Providing Free Football Tickets and More to Legislators

Writing for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution [1 Jan. 2016: A,1], Chris Joyner and Aaron Gould Sheinin have reported on the unusual aspects of how Georgia universities lobby state legislators. Their article, “AJC at the Gold Dome:...

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Two Very Different Stories of Professors Supporting Each Other at Mizzou and Yale

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 8:00am

Eric Rasmusen of the Law Professor Blog Network points out that professors offer each other support but much depends on the situation and department.

At Missouri, Humanities Professors Support a Communications Professor; at Yale, Science Professors Support a Sociology and Psychology Professor

What induces professors to sign letters of support for their colleagues...

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