Editor’s Note: This op-ed was originally published at The Mercury News. In our nation today, we are witnessing an unprecedented unwillingness to accept, or merely recognize and respect, beliefs or behavior that differ from our own. It…
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‘Nap-ins’ at a University to Help Students Dream about Diversity
File this in the ‘wait, this is for real?’ category: The Daily Egyptian reports that Southern Illinois University is hosting “nap-ins” as part of an “interactive art installation” in the library… The nap-ins are part of…
Berkeley Students to Hold Event on Milo and the Freedom of Speech
After the riots and damages at Cal-Berkeley and the discussions about free speech at Berkeley, the Students for Liberty and Cal Libertarians will hold an event to discuss free speech and its importance this coming…
TCU Paid Black Lives Matter, Anti-Trump Activist Shaun King $5,000 to Blast Trump
From The College Fix: Shaun King, a New York Daily News columnist with a reputation for mocking students who ask him tough questions, told a student audience that he has “written probably over 100 articles about Donald Trump…
Instructors at Texas Told to Meet Students in Bars to Avoid Campus Carry Rules
This sounds ridiculous, and it is actually true: Some University of Texas professors have taken to holding office hours at a gun-free bar on campus in order circumvent the state’s new campus carry law. The…
Conservative Students Wonder Why College Republicans have to Pay Security Fee while College Democrats Don’t
Why does Cornell University charge for extra security for College Republican events and not for College Democrats? That is the question that is circulating among Cornell’s College Republicans: The Cornell Republicans tell a similar story….
White Faculty at MIT Form ‘White Person’s Accountability Group’ to Go Over White Privilege
You can’t make this up! This from Campus Reform: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now has a “White Person’s Accountability Group” to help white people understand their “roles both in perpetuating systemic racism and…
University Professor Association Still Unhappy with Revised Immigration Executive Order
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) does not like the revised immigration executive order from the Trump administration and has a history of not liking what is going on in the Trump White House.
Middlebury’s Muddled Mission
Academia today abounds in ironies, although, more often than not, the irony is lost on the denizens of academe itself. By now, the mobbing of conservative scholar Charles Murray at Middlebury College in Vermont has…
White Girls Shouldn’t Wear Hoop Earrings, Latin Student Group says
From Campus Reform: A wall on the side of a Pitzer College dormitory devoted to unmoderated free speech through art (colloquially named “the free wall”), was recently painted by a group of Latino students with…