This time, it isn’t the University of California-Irvine, but at the University of West Florida: The University of West Florida’s sudden derecognition of its College Republicans chapter is turning into a dispute over screenshots and…
Monthly Archives For September 2016
NYU Disinvites Nobel Prize Winning Scientists for Decade-Old Remarks
Sounds like some people get easily offended at comments made a decade ago. Granted, the remarks were not the smartest to say in an interview: A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has been disinvited from speaking at…
Student Op-Ed: Colorado College’s Healthy Lifestyles Program is Body-Shaming
From the College Fix: The wide variety of healthy lifestyle programs at Colorado College are bodyshaming, arguessenior Jade Frost in an op-ed in The Feminist Wire. And in particular, the programs are hurtful to overweight…
Cue the Outrage Mob: Girls Basketball Team Poster Featured Wearing Native American Headdresses
From the College Fix: The Clarke High School Indians women’s basketball team made a poster, using the Iowa school’s “Tribal Family” moniker as a theme. (The photographer told Deadspin that he devised the exact representation, just…
The U. S. Constitution: The Ultimate Endangered Species
Back during the 1972 campaign, satirist Mort Sahl, long thought to be a man of the Left but actually quite independent-minded, said something like this: “In less than 200 years we’ve gone from Madison, Adams,…
Western Kentucky Assistant Dean Claims Someone Slipped Her a Racist Note
Is this a race hoax, or isn’t it? Read this from the College Fix: Get the “hate crime hoax snoopers” ready: Assistant Dean Michelle Jones of Western Kentucky University claims a note was slipped under her…
Some Texas A&M Students Push for Mandatory ‘Racial Justice’ Course, Hit a Trump Piñata
Oh, hitting a Trump piñata filled with notes of racist incidents on campus sounds very reasonable and tolerant *sarcasm*: A group of students at Texas A&M is pushing for a mandatory “Racial Justice” class, citing the…
Arizona State Hosts Founder of ‘White Privilege Conference’
Sounds like taxpayer dollars going to waste: Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) hosted three events this weekend on “white privilege and oppression from systemic organizational design.” The diversity…
Cal-Berkeley Forced to Cancel ‘Decolonizing Palestine’ Course
It does sound like a political indoctrination course, so it’s a good call by Berkeley: The University of California, Berkeley was forced to cancel a course on decolonizing Palestine after conceding that it violated policies…
Federally Funded Anti-Semitism
We’ve reported on the movement on college campuses to apply boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against entities that invest in the state of Israel. As well, we’ve shown the anti-Semitism in this campaign. Now, a…