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Tech Lawsuits

The Virginia Tech massacre was by no means the first murderous rampage at a university in the state.

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May Day Distress Signals

This year, as ever, campuses nationwide are sponsoring or supporting May Day demonstrations on behalf of immigrants in America who may or may not be here legally. Federal officials charged with enforcing U. S. immigration law, meanwhile, are sending up their own distress signals.

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VT Epilogue

While many reacted to the Virginia Tech massacre with calls for more gun control, an NYU sociologist put the blame on the failure of schools in the “socialization” of student bodies.

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Cyber School without Walls

Technology buffs in the city of Brotherly Love are taking the School Without Walls concept into what may be the second-to-last frontier at Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy (SLA).

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18-24 Year-Olds Choose Obama & Giuliani

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Senator Barack Obama are first choice among 18-24 year-olds for President in 2008 according to the Harvard Institute of Politics 12th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service.

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Dismal Science or Dreary Instruction?

Can it be that economics has its reputation as the dismal science because of the way it is taught? Economist Peter G. Klein, in his appreciation of the founder of the Austrian School of Economics—Carl Menger— indicates that may be the case.

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Campus Footnotes

Like many other ills that afflict society, it now appears that the so-called “achievement gap” between white and black students is also a byproduct of secular progressive policies.

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Grumpy Old Men

Institutions of higher learning, designed to be the most temperate pillars of society, produce some of America’s most intemperate and unsubstantiated rhetoric; and the two Granddaddies of grandiloquence have to be Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.

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The Multicultural Elite

Harrisburg, Pa.—Every now and then, someone from the multiculturalism industry admits that the battle for campus market share has been won and all that is left is to divide up the spoils.

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