Political correctness strikes again: The heads of Harvard University’s undergraduate residential houses, formally known as “masters,” have unanimously decided they want to be called something that doesn’t remind them of slavery, The Harvard Crimson reports. Perhaps…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
3 in 5 College Professors say Trigger Warnings Threaten Academic Freedom
Yup, trigger warnings are not good for academic freedom: The National Coalition Against Censorship has an interesting new survey that might make professors on the hard left rethink their support for – or at least neutrality…
Arkansas is Stonewalling a Professor on Admissions Data
Campus Reform reported: A University of Arkansas at Little Rock law professor is suing the school for withholding public data that he claims will show that race-based admissions policies are a disservice to minority students….
USC Student Gov’t Divided on Pushing Administration to Shelter, Give Aid to Syrian Refugees
One of the students who voted said that it is not the responsibility of students to tell administrators what to do: USC’s undergraduate student government voted down on Tuesday a controversial resolution that called on administrators…
UNLV Won’t Rename or Rebrand Their Rebel Mascot
Political correctness loses this battle, for now: University of Nevada, Las Vegas President Len Jessup said Monday that the school will not be abandoning its “Rebels” nickname, though he did endorse updating the mascot. In…
Women’s Studies and the Moral Vacuity of an Academic Boycott Against Israel
Seeming to give proof to Orwell’s observation that some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals, yet another academic association—this time the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)—has followed the…
Christmas at the White House: A Tradition
A good read on the White House Christmas tradition.
Hate Crime Hoax Gets Female Student Activist in Trouble
So many hoaxes on college campuses these days to prove activists right, which actually proves them wrong: Another hate-crime hoax, but this one is a doozy. The person behind the “i will kill every black…
Does Freedom of Religion Extend to the Classroom?
It’s a valid question and a good take from an AFA Journal piece.
Wise Men Still Seek Repeal
When Americans went around the table last Thursday to say what they were grateful for, ObamaCare probably wasn’t one of them. Despite the millions spent in PR, the president’s disaster of a health care law…