From the Washington Examiner: A Purdue University employee has resigned following a deluge of social media comments in which he appeared to threaten to rape pro-life supporters. Jamie Newman, who provides musical accompaniment to Purdue’s…
Topic: Purdue University
Purdue University Investigating Alleged Rape Threat to Pro-Life Women by Staff Member
From Campus Reform: Purdue University staff member Jamie Newman has allegedly posted a series of comments threatening to rape pro-life women on Live Action News, the publishing arm of Live Action, a grassroots organization devoted…
50% of College Graduates say College Education was Worth The Cost
As The Chronicle of Higher Education reported, only half of recent college graduates say their undergraduate education and cost were worth it: Only half of 30,000 college alumni polled for the Gallup-Purdue Index strongly agreed…
Purdue University Eliminates All Free Speech Codes, Earn FIRE’s Highest Rating
As FIRE reported, Purdue is now the leader in promoting free speech on their campus: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is pleased to announce that Purdue University has earned FIRE’s highest, “green…
Scott Walker Strikes Again and Again
Like dentists, government officials know they’ve hit a raw nerve when cavities respond. “Bad news always seems to drop on Fridays,” Dave Vanness, an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, wrote on a…
Purdue’s Mitch Daniels: We can Keep Tuition Flat, Quality of Education High
The College Fix reported Mitch Daniels’ speech and visit to Washington, D.C., where he has frozen college tuition for students: “Purdue University is staking its reputation on the belief that keeping tuition flat will draw more…
Mitch Daniels Protects Free Speech at Purdue
As the College Fix said: “Former Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels, the onetime hope of conservative college students as a Republican presidential candidate (he never ran), has drawn raves for his various moves as president of…

Feminists, Gays and Crip[ple] Theory
In one of the few crowded roundtable discussions at the recent MLA conference in Vancouver, which was far from a discussion, four female professors went over their papers on feminist, queer and disability theory (the…