Noam Chomsky, a Marxist professor who says he has been at MIT for 65 years, maintains that we need a new economic system. He has endorsed something called “the next system,” which is supposed to…
Monthly Archives For April 2016
Pro-Palestinian Student Group Stages Die-In Protest during Jewish Student Union Event
From the Campus Reform: The University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) interrupted a Jewish Student Union (JSU) event on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 with protests and a staged “die-in.” Roughly 20 SJP…
Pro-Trump Chalk Written on Campus Buildings Under Investigation at Georgetown University
Technically, it is vandalism if there is graffiti on campus buildings at Georgetown University, which is what the writer of the pro-Trump messages did.
Dept of Education Sued by Georgia Lawmaker for Due Process Violations
Finally, someone is trying to do something about the misconduct of universities in mishandling sexual misconduct cases: The Department of Education and its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have harmed not only students but their…
Yale Professors Officially Request Removal of “Masters” Titles
Political correctness running amok: According to the Yale Daily News, the Yale Council of Masters has recommended to President Peter Salovey that the title “master” be among the forthcoming name changes at the school. The…
Can College Demonstrators Lose Liberal Support?
College demonstrators might be losing support for the causes they claim to hold dear from their most natural, and effective allies. “Even sympathetic observers end up a tad uncomfortable here: Those of us who support…
Protesters Show Up at American University for Milo Yiannopoulos’s Speaking Event
Last Thursday, controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos was on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C. and was greeted by protesters. How lovely.
Melissa Click Claims She was Fired because She is White
As our friend Ashe Schow writes, the saga of Melissa Click continues: After being fired by the University of Missouri for assaulting a student journalist during a protest and threatening to call for “muscle” to…
Cecile Richards Spoke at Georgetown University Last Week
Cecile Richards, president of the abortion organization Planned Parenthood, spoke on the campus of Georgetown University last week. Considering that the Roman Catholic Church is pro-life, this seems like a poor choice in speaker selection….
Repeating Good History
Meet some actual scholars, as opposed to the ones we usually get to cover, in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.