In a curious approach to mathematical education, a seventh-grade teacher in Michigan has students measure Barbie’s waist and bust and compare her proportions to their own.
Monthly Archives For March 2004
The Classics on Campus: Looking for William Shakespeare
Mention the classics on college campuses today and you are lucky if you get references to Coca-Cola or cars—and that’s in the faculty lounges and administration offices.
UNC Student Gets Hate Mail, from Professor
A North Carolina student discovers that his literature class is a free and open forum, with one minor caveat: politically incorrect speech is forbidden.
A Christmas Tree of Campaigns at IU
Having failed in her efforts to prevent the appointment of an appellate court judge, an Indiana law professor focuses her sights on Christmas trees.
Emory “Animal Farm” University
At Emory University, some speakers are more equal than others.
The ADL’s Different World
In schools throughout the country, “A World of Difference” takes aim at “ageism, heterosexism, ableism and classism”—not to mention Thomas Jefferson.
Non-lingual Education
A former education official exposes multiculturalists’ grip on textbook publishers.
Modern Caligula
The liberal intelligentsia are doing more to bowdlerize Christianity than anything that was ever done by Caligula. They are just more refined about it.