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Film Clips
Outgoing American Journalism Center intern Heyecan Veziroglu reviews two movies sure to make the rounds of college campuses and towns.
Leave This Law Behind
For loyal supporters of the federal education law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), 2007 has been a lonely year indeed.
Leaning Tower of PISA
A closer analysis of the 2006 PISA results reveals mixed results about the United States’ global competitiveness in science and math.
Selective Indignation at Christmastime
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on selective discrimination against Christian holidays during the Christmas season.
McCarthy Without The Ism
At a December 12 Heritage Foundation forum, author Herbert Romerstein offered words of advice that the editors of National Review should have heeded before running Ron Radosh’s error-based review of Evans’ book: “McCarthyism is a term that should not be used by conservatives.”
The Still-Gathering Storm
This economic storm is still gathering. If we fail to act, it will soon be upon us. But we can rise above it – if we work diligently to train and nurture the scientific and mathematical talents of the next generation.
Doctor Tells Medical Students to Lie to Patients
Last month, Dr. Alberto Hodari told Wayne State students that doctors have a license to lie to their patients.
Putin-A Happy Face
With the recent Russian economic boom, many Russians now see Putin as their Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Condomnation
The condom has quickly come to symbolize health professionals’ push for “safe sex,” but Notre Dame Professor James P. Sterba suggests that the condom assume an important new role in the legal system: determining whether or not women have been raped.
Recent Articles
University of California Faculty Will Strike if They Don’t Get a 5% Increase in Salary
College Fix reported: About 23,000 CSU faculty, mostly “instructional employees,” are voting over the next week whether to go on strike if their demands for a 5 percent pay increase this year aren’t met, union…
AIA Features Best & Brightest
In the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter, AIA features some of the best and brightest college professors, for real.
Food Service Workers at Pennsylvania University want to Unionize, Leads to Spike in Meal Plans for Students
College Fix with more on the unionization effort: Kutztown University has five unions covering faculty and professional staff, and Aramark food service workers want to make it six. A successful union drive could mean another…
Land Grab? Wesleyan’s Coed Rules may have been a Play to Seize Real Estate
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth’s subpoenaed e-mails indicate that this was really about a land grab by the university.
Government Inadvertently Promotes Chastity
My old boss, M. Stanton Evans, loved to tell a joke centered around the late Senator Jesse Helms, R-NC, a conservative icon: “Jesse Helms announced that he is now in favor of sex education in…
Pro-Life Display Vandalized at Wisconsin-River Falls
Tolerance is a one-way street that only favors abortion activists, apparently.
Illegal Immigrant Students in California Protest University System’s Lack of Commitment to Them
Wait, what? College Fix has more on this: Approximately 30 undocumented students from various University of California campuses protested outside of the President Janet Napolitano’s office in Oakland yesterday “to express their frustration about what…
Making Indian Headdresses in Preschool can be Racist, One College Student Contends
A college student now says that making Native American/Indian headdresses in preschool can lead to racism: Racism starts with feathers and construction paper. That’s according to Kelly Alderfer, a student at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania,…
David Brooks Falling Apart
The AAUP’s Academe Blog tackles one of David Brooks’ latest pieces. It’s worth a read.
50 Yards to Freedom
The biggest thing that happened on the Bremerton High School football field Friday night had nothing to do with the game. Instead, all eyes were on Coach Joe Kennedy — the target of another unconstitutional…