The College Fix reported: Heritage High School (Newport News, Virginia) teacher Lynne Pierce was attempting to make a point about racist terms and names in her AP History class, and as a result was put…
Monthly Archives For September 2015
A World Without SATs
Last year, Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the country to categorically reject using SATs as an admissions requirement. The college’s president, Jonathan Last, waxed rhapsodic about the results of the…
Pennsylvania College Students Upset at Inflatable Dolls
College Fix reported: An apology from the West Chester University (Pennsylvania) Campus Store Twitter account is not enough, activists say, regarding the sale of an inflatable six-inch female doll. As reported by The College Fix,…
Columbia University Files Motion to Dismiss ‘Mattress Girl’ Lawsuit
It’s sad this is still going on in the courts, really. Columbia University has asked that Paul Nungesser’s lawsuit against the school be dismissed, saying it “did nothing wrong in allowing Emma Sulkowicz […] to…
Conservative Campus Newspaper Criticized for T-Shirts
Social media outrage mobs descend via Facebook. Cowardly, right? In Facebook posts, the writers’ peers called them “idiotic” and “ignorant,” among other names, and as the online insults continued to pile up, some the publication’s…
The Real Nativists
The original piece was published by FGF Books on their website. FRONT ROYAL, VA — Some 30 years ago, Mrs. Alice du Pont Mills invited me to visit her in her expansive Virginia horse farm…
Abortion Doctor’s Ties to University of Missouri Severed
As the College Fix reported: The University of Missouri is cutting its ties with the college town’s only abortion doctor, a month after the state legislature launched a probe into the relationship between the doctor…
North Carolina Paper Bans Use of Words like “Freshman”
This is getting out of hand. Campus Reform with more on the story: The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has decided it will no longer use…
Academia’s Binder Full of Women
In the last presidential election, the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, received much derision when he announced in a debate that as governor of Massachusetts, his team assembled “a binderful of women” as the top applicants…
Portland State Students Protest Arming of Campus Police
Wait, so if there is an armed shooter on the college campus, who will stop the shooter? Just saying that arming campus police may be a good safety measure.