Everything is offensive! University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto decided to shroud a controversial mural on campus in order “to respond to the pain that it causes” after a group of students came to him…
Topic: academia
University of Delaware Gives Grant to On-Campus 2nd Amendment Group to Buy Ammunition
The university prohibits guns and ammunition on campus, so the students will store it at one of their off-campus apartments, but this is an interesting move by the university.
Brown University Students Ambush University President in Her Office over Racial Dialogue
Another university president is ambushed by a mob of students, again.
University of Maryland President Quotes Wrong U.S. Motto in School E-mail
In an email this week to students, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh outlining the reasons behind his request to the Board of Regents to rename the school’s football stadium, due to the racist past…
Brandeis Administrators Cave to 12-Day Student Sit-In Demands on Diversity
Student sit-in and protests are bullying college administrators, who easily cave to their demands. This time, it was Brandeis’s turn.
Bad Business with China 101
Those who warn of the dangers of professors making pronouncements outside their area of expertise may have been a bit too hasty. A case might be made for encouraging business professors to look at foreign…
Poster Vandalism Leads to Outcry at Swarthmore
More outrage! Outcry! Swarthmore College student Jacob Malin noticed something amiss on a poster in the college’s French Department: It appeared “the faces of the three students of color looked like they had been intentionally…
Texas Students Stage ‘Die-In’ Protest of a Play due to Blackface
College students at Texas are apparently saying, historical accuracy be damned: University of Texas-Austin protesters don’t want theater audiences to know that white actors wore blackface on stage in the “Roaring 20s.” They staged a…
Six Private Universities in Texas Opt Out of Concealed Carry on Campus
St. Mary’s University in San Antonio joins five other universities to ban concealed carry on their campuses.
Hunting Ground Filmmakers think Criticism by Harvard Professors Violates Title IX
Filmmakers take issue with criticism: When Northwestern University students were offended by Prof. Laura Kipnis’s criticism of “sexual paranoia” on college campuses in an essay, they accused her of violating Title IX by creating a “hostile…