Virginia Commonwealth University, located in Richmond, Virginia, will ditch using SAT scores for applicants with a GPA at 3.3 or higher. Apparently, they’re not the first to do so, as 800 other colleges have done…
Articles By: Spencer Irvine
MLA Out of Touch with Reality
At the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada, the degree to which many professors are divorced from reality was brought into sharp focus. Few panels at the conference that draws thousands of English…
Scientists Balk at Global Warming and 2014 was the “Hottest Year” claim
Great write-up and analysis by Climate Depot’s Marc Morano. It also seems arrogant to think only humans caused a slight uptick in global temperatures, instead of accounting for wildfires, volcanoes and other natural causes.
New York Times Columnist Screams Racial Profiling after Son is Detained by Yale Police
A burglary suspect fled the scene of a crime, and the Yale police ended up pulling aside the son of Charles Blow, a columnist for the New York Times. Blow tweeted his outrage, but his…
Obama drops his Tax on College Savings Plans
It’s been only one WEEK after his State of the Union address and he’s already backtracked his proposed tax on college savings, which was tax the 529 college savings plan. Talk about a quick about-face.
Out-Of-Print Humanities Textbooks will become Free e-Books
It is a joint project by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to make humanities textbooks available to everyone, at least the ones out of print.
When Margaret Sanger Visited the KKK…
There was a lot of bad press about Republican Steve Scalise possibly attending a Ku Klux Klan function (which was quickly debunked), but this brings up the hypocrisy of the Left: Why not criticize Margaret…
University of Maine won’t directly invest in Coal Companies anymore
The university’s board of trustees voted on this proposal, following Stanford’s lead.
When MLA gets Religion Wrong
When professors do pay attention to religion, they usually get it wrong. “Conservatives would rather have [social welfare] provided by religious organizations, which is incompatible with other aspects of Catholic social teaching,” Robin Sowards, an…
Tim Scott: D.C. School Choice = Fewer Dropouts
Waiting lists are one sign of the desirability of school choice. Graduation rates are another, and they seem to rise in tandem. In Washington, D.C., the “waiting list for students in the DC area for…