Some theories are so stupid that you can tell at the outset that elites will embrace them: Amy Cuddy’s thesis of “power poses” is one of these. Launched in an academic paper in 2010, the…
Monthly Archives For February 2017
College Student Suspended after Recording Professor’s Anti-Trump Rant
The controversy began when a video clip went viral on the internet, where an Orange Coast College professor named Olga Perez Stable Cox went on an anti-Trump rant and said that Trump’s election was an…
LA Times Investigates ‘Black Bloc’ Anti-Milo Rioters, but Cal-Berkeley Won’t
Imagine if the speaker whose event got canceled was the likes of Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards or communist Angela Davis? Food for thought. From The College Fix: A reporter for the Los Angeles Times managed to pull…
Virginia High School in Hot Water over Politically Correct Signs
From The Daily Caller: An Arlington County School Board member stood by allowing teachers to post politically-suggestive messages in classrooms during a Wednesday interview on a Washington-based radio station. The signs, posted by teachers, were…
Student Group Sues George Mason University over Donations from Koch Brothers
From Campus Reform: A student group is suing George Mason University, seeking to force the school to publicly disclose all grant and gift agreements it has with the Koch brothers. “Large donations to universities are…
University of Chicago Workshop Tries to Find ‘Alternatives’ to Calling the Police
This college workshop on alternatives to calling the police to respond to incidents begs the following question: Who else will be armed in the city of Chicago (and in the state of Illinois) who can…
The Right has become “Intrusive” on College Campuses
One college professor is worried about the increasingly “intrusive” nature of conservative and libertarian-leaning activists on college campuses. David Theo Goldberg, a professor of comparative literature, anthropology, criminology, law and society at the University of…
Parents Unhappy with Illinois High School Seminar on Microaggressions
From Campus Reform: Parents of students attending New Trier High School in Illinois are dismayed by the school’s insistence on hosting a civil rights “Seminar Day” that discusses white privilege, microaggressions, and implicit bias. On…
Bucknell Professor: If You invite Milo Yiannopoulos to Speak, You should Pay a ‘Steep and Lasting Price’
This isn’t how free speech works, economics professor Marcellus Andrews of Bucknell: The Tab reports Professor Marcellus Andrews had sent an open letter (which included the provocative statement) to all Bucknell profs back on January 16, but…
UCLA Paid Professors $1,000 per Anti-Trump Workshop
Per Campus Reform, UCLA is paying at least $1,000 per workshops on the 2016 election, several which are anti-Trump. For the record, UCLA did not hold similar workshops when Obama was elected in 2008 and…