As the presidential campaign heats up, the two Democratic contenders—Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are shoring up their base on college campuses, areas mostly off-limits for Republicans.
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The Middle of Nowhere
How many students start dropping out in middle school?
Academics Downgrade Socialized Medicine
Academics themselves are admitting that it doesn’t work, even as various presidential candidates still float ideas to provide “universal health care.”
60s Needle in Academic Haystack
Finding a front-page 60s radical four decades after the fact is a bit like finding a needle in an academic haystack: You just have to stumble upon the institution of higher learning that the professional protestor sought shelter in.
Badger Backlash
Wisconsin-based author/scholar/radio talker Charles Sykes reports that even at the liberal-left bastion known as the University of Wisconsin, students are refusing to be held hostage by the pc zealots.
Planned Parenthood Slush Fund
One of the biggest programs that pumps your taxes to Planned Parenthood is Title X of the Public Health Service Act which underwrites birth control clinics and helps to expand Planned Parenthood’s access to teenagers, whose patronage it needs by the hundreds of thousands.
Punished for Patriotism
When Donald Miller of Lancaster, Pa. wore a patriotic t-shirt to school last year to support his uncle’s mission in Iraq, school officials told him to turn it inside out.
Academia’s Big Tent
You can get a pretty good idea of where academics are coming from politically and where they expect their junior colleagues to fall on the political spectrum by what they tell each other, particularly when they put it down on paper.
Home Alone
California families received an alarming wake-up call last month with the decision of the Second District Court of Appeals to essentially declare home-schooling to be illegal in California.
When You’re Smiling
At one primary school in England, the task of protecting young children has gone to a whole new level.
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Brown University Students Ambush University President in Her Office over Racial Dialogue
Another university president is ambushed by a mob of students, again.
University of Maryland President Quotes Wrong U.S. Motto in School E-mail
In an email this week to students, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh outlining the reasons behind his request to the Board of Regents to rename the school’s football stadium, due to the racist past…
Brandeis Administrators Cave to 12-Day Student Sit-In Demands on Diversity
Student sit-in and protests are bullying college administrators, who easily cave to their demands. This time, it was Brandeis’s turn.
Bad Business with China 101
Those who warn of the dangers of professors making pronouncements outside their area of expertise may have been a bit too hasty. A case might be made for encouraging business professors to look at foreign…
Poster Vandalism Leads to Outcry at Swarthmore
More outrage! Outcry! Swarthmore College student Jacob Malin noticed something amiss on a poster in the college’s French Department: It appeared “the faces of the three students of color looked like they had been intentionally…
Texas Students Stage ‘Die-In’ Protest of a Play due to Blackface
College students at Texas are apparently saying, historical accuracy be damned: University of Texas-Austin protesters don’t want theater audiences to know that white actors wore blackface on stage in the “Roaring 20s.” They staged a…
Six Private Universities in Texas Opt Out of Concealed Carry on Campus
St. Mary’s University in San Antonio joins five other universities to ban concealed carry on their campuses.
Hunting Ground Filmmakers think Criticism by Harvard Professors Violates Title IX
Filmmakers take issue with criticism: When Northwestern University students were offended by Prof. Laura Kipnis’s criticism of “sexual paranoia” on college campuses in an essay, they accused her of violating Title IX by creating a “hostile…
School District Bills High School Student Over $7,000 for FOIA Request
The details of why it would cost over $7,000 seems very sketchy: When Robbins “requested a list of which websites were blocked, any guidelines for which websites were blocked, and for the emails in which…
Woodrow Wilson’s Clay Feet
There is something deliciously ironic about academic and media elites rethinking Woodrow Wilson, probably the president they have lionized most until the current occupant of the White House took office. It is an irony that…
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
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