From Campus Reform: Faculty members and students at Clemson University, inspired by a trending anti-Trump manifesto, are amping up their political boycotts of the country’s new president. The protest group, known as “Indivisible Clemson,” explicitly…
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Study: Extreme Protest Tactics Hurt Protesters’ Case and Public Support
From Campus Reform: Blocking traffic, damaging property, rioting, and other forms of extreme protest behaviours can reduce popular support for social movements, a new study concludes. The study, Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Popular Support For Social…
University Held ‘Vagina Monologues’ Inside a Church
From The College Fix: Student groups at Plymouth State University, which hosted a six-week series exploring “the intersections of sexuality and spirituality,” are now offering the “Vagina Monologues” presented inside a church. As part of…
Power Poses Shortcircuited
Some theories are so stupid that you can tell at the outset that elites will embrace them: Amy Cuddy’s thesis of “power poses” is one of these. Launched in an academic paper in 2010, the…
College Student Suspended after Recording Professor’s Anti-Trump Rant
The controversy began when a video clip went viral on the internet, where an Orange Coast College professor named Olga Perez Stable Cox went on an anti-Trump rant and said that Trump’s election was an…
LA Times Investigates ‘Black Bloc’ Anti-Milo Rioters, but Cal-Berkeley Won’t
Imagine if the speaker whose event got canceled was the likes of Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards or communist Angela Davis? Food for thought. From The College Fix: A reporter for the Los Angeles Times managed to pull…
Student Group Sues George Mason University over Donations from Koch Brothers
From Campus Reform: A student group is suing George Mason University, seeking to force the school to publicly disclose all grant and gift agreements it has with the Koch brothers. “Large donations to universities are…
The Right has become “Intrusive” on College Campuses
One college professor is worried about the increasingly “intrusive” nature of conservative and libertarian-leaning activists on college campuses. David Theo Goldberg, a professor of comparative literature, anthropology, criminology, law and society at the University of…
Bucknell Professor: If You invite Milo Yiannopoulos to Speak, You should Pay a ‘Steep and Lasting Price’
This isn’t how free speech works, economics professor Marcellus Andrews of Bucknell: The Tab reports Professor Marcellus Andrews had sent an open letter (which included the provocative statement) to all Bucknell profs back on January 16, but…
UCLA Paid Professors $1,000 per Anti-Trump Workshop
Per Campus Reform, UCLA is paying at least $1,000 per workshops on the 2016 election, several which are anti-Trump. For the record, UCLA did not hold similar workshops when Obama was elected in 2008 and…