With all the news about discrimination, some of the most egregious forms of bias regularly escape scrutiny. One of them is the persistent
discrimination conservative academics suffer at the hands of liberal state universities.
Monthly Archives For August 2009
NYU Law Dean Responds
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an e-mail he received from New York University Law Dean Richard Revesz about the controversy surrounding Singaporean law professor Thio Li-ann.
Screened but not heard
Today’s Washington Post unveiled the District’s plans to test children as young as 12 for sexually transmitted diseases without their parents’ permission.
No Christians Need Apply
Dr. Thio Li-ann, professor at the National University of Singapore, was invited to teach at New York University Law School this fall. After it was discovered that the Christian professor, while serving as a Singaporean lawmaker in 2007, opposed a repeal of the law proscribing homosexual acts, NYU students and alumni organized to protest her appointment.
Tenure, Chicago-Style
The University of Illinois, which employs communist terrorist Bill Ayers as a professor, has been hit by an admissions scandal which has forced the resignation of the chairman of its board of trustees.
This Little Dance
If only the University of Hawaii’s million-dollar football coach had insulted Christians, conservatives or the state of Israel, then, like the protagonists in Erich Segal’s Love Story, McMackin would never have to say, “I’m sorry.”
Giving Illegals the Waive
On July 23, the Texas Attorney General wrote the state House of Representatives to explain why Texas provides in-state tuition to illegal aliens.
Venezuela Impasse
As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s popularity plummets alongside oil prices, analysts warn that the socialist state could be veering toward disaster.
Full Court Press
This July, in the midst of the contentious hearings surrounding Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the Heritage Foundation convened its annual “Scholars and Scribes” panels to discuss the current trends in jurisprudential action employed by the Roberts Court.
Health Care Made Opaque
A women’s studies major puts his education to use explaining health care.