Back in the day, when bosses and CEOs got a little too attentive to detail, we would wryly note that they were “micromanaging.” Today, students actually want university administrators to micromanage free speech, putting the…
Topic: UVa
White House Adviser Introduced “Jackie” to Reporter for Rolling Stone Story
Campus Reform reported the following: “Rolling Stone has confirmed through court documents that Emily Renda, a White House sexual assault adviser and university employee, introduced “Jackie,” the focal point of Rolling Stone’s gang rape exposé, to…
Too Big to Fail is a Failure
Five years after President Obama signed it into law to address America’s financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act and the federal regulations that followed from it are relatively unknown by at least one-third of normal Americans….
Mizzou joins Virginia as Universities Banning Free Speech Zones
This is a good thing to protect free speech on college campuses. The more colleges that ban these free speech zones, the better.
Conservative Counties have Stronger Families than Liberal Counties, UVA Study finds
As the College Fix noted: “New research by the director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project flips the elite wisdom on its head: While blue states as a whole have stronger families, when you…
Columbia University Dean: Journalists need to get Both Sides of Campus Sexual Assault Stories
Uh, yes, this should be established and common sense for journalists, but we’ve seen with the Rolling Stone story about UVa that it is no longer true for journalists.
Journalistic Blindspots Exposed at Rolling Stone and Beyond
Biased journalists view the world locked into paradigms dominated by their own preconceptions. Often, they and their editors select stories designed to confirm those narratives at the expense of the facts. This is pure punditry…
Columbia Journalism Publishes Investigation of Rolling Stone UVa Story
The bottom line? The Rolling Stone didn’t verify or fact check Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s story, her source “Jackie” and went ahead in publishing a false gang rape story. And what did Erdely say, after all this?…
Virginia Students Locked Out of Tuition Hike Meeting
As the Campus Reform reported: “As the University of Virginia announced a plan to increase tuition by 11 percent—one of the highest increases in the country—the public university locked students out of the library where…
UVa content with the End of the Rolling Stone/Jackie Story
The local police concluded there was no substantive evidence that supported the allegations of one Jackie, that fraternity members gang-raped her. But, the University of Virginia applauded its own efforts in the investigation, which is…