From The College Fix: When right-wing provocateur Gavin McInnes spoke to the New York University College Republicans last night, the local police did their jobs, escorting him out of the building through a throng of…
Monthly Archives For February 2017
Students Paid for This? College Course on Kanye West Hip-Hop Music
From The College Fix: Welcome to “The Politics of Kanye West: Black Genius and Sonic Aesthetics,” a class that debuted this spring at Washington University in St. Louis. “Hip-Hop icon Kanye West is many things….
Ohio University Students Occupied Campus Building to Protest Dakota Access Pipeline
From The College Fix: Approximately 70 Ohio University students were held for criminal trespassing after they “occupied” the fourth-floor lobby of the campus Baker Center yesterday. Students demanded that President Roderick McDavis declare the school…
How About “America First” for College Admissions?
In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American…
It’s Official: Betsy DeVos, Despite Opposition from Democrats, Teachers Unions, Confirmed as New Education Secretary
Betsy DeVos, a pro-school choice advocate and philanthropist, has been confirmed by Senate vote to become the next Department of Education secretary to fill President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking…
The Berkeley Riot Expresses Dominant Anti-American Campus Culture
From Casey Mattox at The Federalist: On the campus of the University of California at Berkeley is a monument to student free speech. It commemorates the Free Speech Movement that began at Berkeley in the…
Small, Hijab-Wearing Protest Group at Dartmouth Criticize Trump’s Refugee Executive Order
From Campus Reform: Dartmouth College students and faculty members protested President Trump’s executive order on immigration by wearing hijabs to show, as one professor wrote, that “we’re all Muslims now.” A student in the Tuck…
Massachusetts College will Offer Full Scholarship to Refugee Student
The liberal, Massachusetts-based Wheaton College (not to be confused with the Christian college by the same name in Illinois) is championing refugees. This from The College Fix: In the latest example of academia thumbing its nose…
Marquette University Students Unhappy that Ben Shapiro is Speaking during Black History Month
From The College Fix: A group of progressive students at Marquette University are upset that conservative firebrand Ben Shapiro is scheduled to speak on campus later this week, citing “Black History Month” as one reason…
Princeton University Student: University is Teaching Us to Hate Each Other
From the Daily Wire: A freshman at Princeton University, an Ivy League school in New Jersey, penned an article in Quillette discussing the hostile climate that the university fosters in 21st century America. Titled “Diversity for the Sake…