Would you allow your child or grandchild to attend this type of event? Major universities across the country are offering course credit, and in some cases even paying the cost, for students to attend an…
Topic: academia
Duke Grad Student: Defending Free Speech = White Supremacy
Uh, sorry, but that is not true. Free speech is a constitutional right.
UC-Irvine Students Start Petition to Eliminate the ‘Slave Patrol’ Campus Police
Yet they only have 200 signatures to boot: The Black Student Union at the University of California, Irvine has called for the abolition of the campus police department, calling the very idea of policing “unethical.”…
From Stalinist Russia, With Love
In Stalinist Russia, they had a love-hate relationship with the United States: Stalin hated it but the writers he dispatched to the U. S. on investigatory trips got to rather like it. Ilya Ilf and…
UVa’s ‘Jackie’ Can’t Hide Records in Defamation Lawsuit
Via College Fix: Jackie Coakley can’t hide her secrets any longer. The student at the heart of Rolling Stone‘s discredited gang-rape story has been orderedby a federal judge to turn over her communications with the magazine…
Mizzou Administrators are Cowards, says Professor
That’s a bold statement: A professor at the University of Missouri published an article addressed to the system’s administration, labeling its handling of the November protests cowardly and enabling. Professor Marty Rochester, who teaches in…
Melissa Click Suspended after Assault Charge
The confrontational communications professor, who works at the University of Missouri, was charged with assault after trying to get ‘muscle’ to kick out a student journalist.
Disabling Dickens
Truly, some authors are just too important to be left to academia. Charles Dickens is one of them. Yet and still, the Modern Language Association (MLA), at its annual conventions, regularly tries to modernize the…
Harvard Faculty Struggle to Replace ‘Master’ Title
Other names suggested are too bland, like ‘leader’, or too religious, such as ‘rector.’ This is kinda funny.
Texas Chancellor Warns Faculty of Violating Campus Carry Law
Left-wing faculty members are pushing to ban guns in their classrooms, although Texas law is that guns can be carried on public university grounds. The chancellors told lawmakers that they would comply, but classroom gun…