Apparently, being “anti-fascist” means that you want to ban free speech by a controversial public figure like Milo Yiannopoulos. Oh the irony: One UC Berkeley group, named Berkeley Antifa, created a Facebook event dedicated to disrupting and…
Topic: college students
University of London Student Union Doesn’t Want to Learn about White Philosophers
From The College Fix: The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) student union at the University of London is demanding that philosophers Plato, Descartes, and Kant should be — mostly — supplanted by those from…
Georgetown Students Receive Credit for Attending Anti-Trump Teach-In
One of the more notable quotes from the anti-Trump teach-in at Georgetown University was how, in a post-Trump world, “violence may be necessary”: Another explained that they cannot work with Trump because “that’s what they…
Liberals Tried to Disinvite Speakers SEVEN Times More than Conservatives
From The College Fix: FIRE has been chronicling attempts by students and faculty to stop perceived controversial speakers from lecturing on campus since its first disinvitation report came out in 2014. Individual Rights Defense Program…
College Students Unhappy University of Chicago Invited Trump’s Press Secretary
Looks like Sean Spicer is not beloved among the college students at the University of Chicago: According to The Chicago Maroon, the Spicer announcement “drew criticism from some students who say they may protest the IOP’s…
Oglethorpe University, Rutgers Join List of Colleges that Offered Puppies, PC Culture Classes
Puppies for college students to de-stress! This and a class on ‘adulting’, among other options at Oglethorpe and Rutgers: The Oglethorpe Counseling Center, for example, recently sponsored a three-hour “Stress Free Zone” on December 9, the…
Feeding the Academic Bea$t
A university think tank just published a list of recommendations for paying for college. Perhaps not too surprisingly, they mostly involve increasing taxpayer-funded government subsidies of higher education. To its credit, the Miller Center at…
Delusions of Education Grandeur
Some public officials leave office as far behind the knowledge curve as when they entered it. “One recent analysis found that 95 percent of the jobs created since 2008 required some postsecondary education or training,”…
Wisconsin Students: Shut Down Conservative Group and Their Speaker Ben Shapiro
From Campus Reform: Students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison are demanding that their school’s administration put members of a conservative club “through intensive diversity training.” An online petition being circulated by the school’s “Student Coalition for…
Texas Campus Carry Law only lead to One Incident, an Accidental Discharge
The only incident was an accidental discharge, per Campus Reform: Despite concerns from anti-gun protesters across the state of Texas, the first semester of campus carry went smoothly, with just one incident of an accidental…