Professors who try to impart lessons about the Civil Rights struggle may be missing one, namely, the efforts of elders who lived through it to get the younger generation to understand.
Monthly Archives For March 2008
60s Needle in Academic Haystack
Finding a front-page 60s radical four decades after the fact is a bit like finding a needle in an academic haystack: You just have to stumble upon the institution of higher learning that the professional protestor sought shelter in.
Academics Downgrade Socialized Medicine
Academics themselves are admitting that it doesn’t work, even as various presidential candidates still float ideas to provide “universal health care.”
The Middle of Nowhere
How many students start dropping out in middle school?
The Collegiate Campaign Trail
As the presidential campaign heats up, the two Democratic contenders—Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are shoring up their base on college campuses, areas mostly off-limits for Republicans.
Academia’s Big Tent
You can get a pretty good idea of where academics are coming from politically and where they expect their junior colleagues to fall on the political spectrum by what they tell each other, particularly when they put it down on paper.
Punished for Patriotism
When Donald Miller of Lancaster, Pa. wore a patriotic t-shirt to school last year to support his uncle’s mission in Iraq, school officials told him to turn it inside out.
Planned Parenthood Slush Fund
One of the biggest programs that pumps your taxes to Planned Parenthood is Title X of the Public Health Service Act which underwrites birth control clinics and helps to expand Planned Parenthood’s access to teenagers, whose patronage it needs by the hundreds of thousands.
Badger Backlash
Wisconsin-based author/scholar/radio talker Charles Sykes reports that even at the liberal-left bastion known as the University of Wisconsin, students are refusing to be held hostage by the pc zealots.
College Knowledge Check List
Longtime radio talk show host Dennis Prager has some advice for aspiring college students and/or their parents.