This is political correctness running amok: Sutter Middle School (Folsom, California) teacher Woody Hart ended up “retiring” last Thursday evening due to controversy generated by his hanging a Confederate flag in his classroom during a…
Monthly Archives For February 2017
Did Drexel University ‘White Genocide’ Professor get Favorable Media Coverage?
From The College Fix: At a time when the American media invokes little sense of trust in the public, alongs comes a major Philadelphia news outlet to offer up a heartfelt look at the local professor…
Claremont McKenna College Funds Minorities-Only Meditation Program to Handle Race-Related Stress
From Campus Reform: Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is funding a minorities-only meditation program for individuals who have experienced race-related stress. On January 25, Vince Greer, the Assistant Dean of Students for Diversity and Inclusion at…
Professors Sticking Together in Trump’s America
At the Modern Language Association, one panel of professors discussed a thirty-year-old book and one professor encouraged the Left to stick together in a post-Donald Trump America. Christopher Castiglia, a Penn State professor specializing in…
Violent Protesters Shut Down Milo Yiannopoulos’ Cal-Berkeley Event
Sounds like the Left only likes free speech that it agrees with. Violent protests shut down Milo Yiannopoulos’s event at University of California-Berkeley: The university said fires were set, including one caused by a firebomb…
Northeastern University Holds Three-Day Retreat for Students ‘who Value Social Justice’
From Campus Reform: Northeastern University plans to host a three-day retreat where students will have the opportunity to discuss and learn strategies on how to combat power and privilege. The “DISMANTLE Retreat: Deconstructing Power and…
North Dakota State Professor Believes Liberal Colleges Need Conservatives
Liberal groupthink is damaging, said the psychology professor. This bit of news comes from Campus Reform: “Colleges desperately need conservative students,” asserts Clay Routledge, a psychology professor at North Dakota State University. In an essay for…
Gays, Zombies and Queer Literature in Caribbean Culture
In an offering typical of the academic exotica on display at the Modern Language Association, and for that matter, in academia itself, a panel of profesors discussed what they called “queer (i.e. gay or homosexual)…
Lawsuit Alleged Queens College Treated Pro-Life Students as ‘Second Class Citizens’
From Campus Reform: Alliance Defending Freedom filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Queens College on behalf of Students for Life, a pro-life student group that was denied recognition without explanation. According to ADF’s news release, college officials delayed…
Notre Dame Faculty Urge University President to Designate University as a Sanctuary Campus
Considering that sanctuary campuses do flout aspects of federal immigration enforcement laws, this could be a risky move by Notre Dame’s faculty senate, a private Catholic educational institution: A copy of the resolution, obtained by Campus…