Rather than being victims of police brutality, a new video shows that Occupiers at UC Davis knew they were going to be pepper sprayed and didn’t mind it.
Yearly Archives For 2011
The Tenure of OWS
If the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations seen quite un-American, maybe that’s because they are, at least in their point of origin.
Academia: For Democrats Only
In what might be a record, 22 Obama Administration officials have already left the government for academia.
Ten Questions About Tenure, Or Less
Naomi Schaefer Riley of the Wall Street Journal answers questions about tenure, the subject of her book, The Faculty Lounges.
Campus Safety At Risk
When elites pass judgement on the efforts of police to keep the peace on campus it is the students on the quad who are put at risk.
MLA Job Security Angst
When the Modern Language Association, America’s largest association of English professors, demonstrates a sudden concern for the rising debt level of college students as they did in a recent issue of Inside Higher Education, these sentiments bear closer scrutiny.
HOLIDAY CHEER?
A student publication at a college in Kelowna, British Columbia reported that a local shoe store has an unusual holiday display this year.
WISCONSIN FOR CHRISTMAS
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker may have singlehandedly ignited the 2011 war on Christmas.
More than equal
“In my law school, we had begun to defend the enemy combatants [in the war on terror] to the point where they had more protections than most Americans do.”—Charles Hill, senior lecturer at Yale in remarks at the Heritage Foundation on November 17, 2011.
Which came first?
“I’ve had students say, ‘rights come from democracy,’ and I say, ‘No, democracy comes from your rights.’”—Charles Hill, senior lecturer at Yale University in a speech at the Heritage Foundation on November 17, 2011.