Cries of “cultural appropriation” rang out at Orange Coast College when a ‘Day of the Dead’ theme was used for student club recruitment.
Monthly Archives For November 2017
Is “Hegemonic Masculinity” Deadly?
Three professors from the University of California at Riverside are coming to that conclusion.
Radicals Repressing Radicals @ Reed
When campus radicals run out of conservatives or even moderates to use the heckler’s veto on, they turn their sights to other radicals deemed insufficiently radical.
Chief Illiniwek Still Protested
The venerable old mascot at the University of Illinois still does more than ruffle feathers.
Small Liberal Arts Colleges Getting Smaller
But not for administrators.
UCLA Backed Down from Security Fees Demand after Lawsuit Threatened
UCLA backed down from demands that if 70% of an event’s attendees were not students, faculty or staff, the Republican student chapter had to pay all security-related fees for the event.
Brandeis University Canceled Counter-Narrative Black Lives Matter Play
A play that counters some Black Lives Matter narratives has been canceled at Brandeis University after outcry and criticism by students and alumni.
Fact-free Repression @ Rutgers, and just about everywhere else
At a Rutgers University panel discussion in October, “Identity politics: the new racialism on campus?,” sponsored by Spike, “a British anti-misanthropy current-affairs magazine,” audience members began interrupting the panelists with chants of “black lives matter!”…
Academia Won’t Quit H8ing
The very people, professors, who tell us to be civil and tolerant may be the most uncivil and intolerant of us all.
Feds Defund WGU
After an audit, the U. S. Department of Education’s inspector general has deemed Western Governors University unworthy of federal student aid.