The tremendous turnout of young people at the annual demonstration is something to experience.
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Science and Race
Identifying race as a source of disease may seem like a practice from the Jim Crow era, resolved after scandals like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study; however, current studies linking genetics with disease could have similar implications for race, according to a report recently published by the Center for American Progress.
Child Abuse in Oregon
The Catholic League gives details on the treatment of sex abuse in public schools in Oregon.
USC Takes Left Turn
In the 2000 election cycle USC professors and staff members donated slightly more money to George Bush’s presidential campaign than to Al Gore. What a difference eight years make.
Yale’s Half-Price Sale
Thanks to a new tuition policy at Yale, prospective students will be indebted to the institution—but this time with gratitude.
Trust But Verify
As the legislative session began in Maryland, Montgomery County officials were surprised to discover that the school construction funds that they were expecting from the state fell far short of expectations, about $35 million short to be exact.
Trust Fund Fantasies
Young people watching a large chunk of their paychecks going to pay social security taxes may question why anyone would defend a program that, in an age of IRAs and 401 (k)s, seems to be such an anachronism. They might ask their professors, or just wait to hear them defend the status quo.
Liberal Fascism Explained
It’s not an oxymoron.
Sabbaticals for Dummies
Those of us who have long been curious about what professors do on sabbatical could glean one sort of an answer from Oregon University English professor Edwin Battistella’s tongue-in-cheek (we think) listing of “Twenty-Five things to do on sabbatical” that appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of The Montana Professor.
Uncle Tomisms
The Modern Language Association offers up a surprisingly circumspect examination of the character and the epithet.
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To Reduce Income Inequality, Target the Ivy League
Good column (yet again) by Glenn Reynolds: As former Labor secretary Robert Reich recently noted, Ivy League schools are government-subsidized playgrounds for the rich: “Imagine a system of college education supported by high and growing government spending on…
Michelle Malkin’s Message to MSNBC Host about ‘Hard Worker’ Comment
Michelle Malkin is amazing: “Only in academia is the color-coding of one’s work ethic seen as the apex of progressive enlightenment.”
Tech Meets Narrative: New App Address Campus Sexual Misconduct
In a press release, the Association of Title IX Administrators (known as ATIXA) championed a new app called U of Nine. The purpose of U of Nine is to help “colleges and universities to educate…
Where Student Loans = Revenue for Colleges, Universities
Eye-opening chart from the Academe Blog, who cited a Brookings Institute chart.
Iowa Community College Administrators Get Away with Intimidating Student Journalists
Yup, the administrators are quite punitive when it comes to community college affairs, apparently. Muscatine Community College student journalists now know that.
The Growing Backlash Against Liberal Media Bias
If you think media bias is bad now, brace yourself. It’s no secret that students these days are being taught to be biased in the direction of the “progressive” point of view. The trend in…
Students for Justice in Palestine Seeks Social for All—Except Jews, Of Course
Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared on Times of Israel’s website. Perhaps when literary critic C.S. Lewis despaired of “omnipotent moral busybodies . . . who torment us for our own good,” he was speaking…
California School Lowers Bar, an F is now below 20%
Lowering the bar! Yay, lowering education standards in Sonoma County, California!
Washington Coach Praying for Keeps
Students aren’t the only ones who get suspended from Washington’s Bremerton High School. Based on yesterday’s decision, so do coaches. That’s the latest in the outrageous case of Joe Kennedy, the devout Christian at the…
Professor Realizes Trigger Warnings have Ruined College Campuses, wrote Salon
If Salon realized this, that means it’s getting really bad and much worse than you’d imagine: You won’t believe it. I only believe it because the evidence is right in front of my face. Here,…
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
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