A pair of high school girls has done something Republican members of Congress only talk about: They saved the First Amendment by actually using it. “In July 2014—the summer before her senior year—Samantha Jones’s father…
Monthly Archives For July 2015
Black College Ends Bill Cosby Endowed Professor Job
In light of recent revelations about Bill Cosby’s drugging of women, it was the right choice to end the professorship.
No Special Treatment for Political Activists
There is a controversy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where the Poverty Center is going to be closed, but whose director has made a fuss about its closing and claimed it was politically…
Virginia Tech Implements Ideological Litmus Test for Tenure
This is not a good thing if universities really want full inclusion of people from varying ideologies: “Virginia Tech is reportedly requiring professors seeking tenure to pass a sort of litmus test when it comes to…
White House Adviser Introduced “Jackie” to Reporter for Rolling Stone Story
Campus Reform reported the following: “Rolling Stone has confirmed through court documents that Emily Renda, a White House sexual assault adviser and university employee, introduced “Jackie,” the focal point of Rolling Stone’s gang rape exposé, to…
British PhD Candidate says Middle Ages-Themed Video Games “Legitimizes” White Supremacy
Apparently there’s a thing called video games lecturer? College Fix reported: “PhD candidate at the University of Leeds (UK) and video game lecturer Victoria Coopercomplains that video games are commandeering the Middle Ages — that…
MIT Fellow Tweets about America’s Founding Fathers and White Privilege
As Campus Reform reported: “MIT Postdoctoral Fellow Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has consistently directed denigrating Twitter and Facebook posts at America, the Founding Fathers, and white males.” “On June 25th, Prescod-Weinstein tweeted that she wants “to burn…
Rutgers Media Professor says America is More Brutal than ISIS
Disgusting accusation by the journalism and media studies associate professor: “SoCawlege reports that Deepa Kumar, associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and author of “Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire,” tweeted out recently that the United States…
Anti-Scott Walker Professor Takes Out Anger via E-mail Reply
The professor doesn’t live in Wisconsin, but still hates Scott Walker. As the College Fix reported: “A professor at Vassar College has penned a lengthy screed against Republican Gov. Scott Walker, an angry rant that…
Trigger Warnings are Headed to England
Well, it’s not an exported product that Americans are proud of, so get ready for widespread offense and knee-jerk reactions in British universities.