Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s wry observation that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” the fatuous members of the Virginia Tech Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS)…
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Virginia Tech Held Ten Different Cultural Graduation Ceremonies for Its Students
Virginia Tech held ten different graduation ceremonies to celebrate its diversity, such as a Muslim-only graduation, veterans-only, and a Latino-only graduation ceremony.
Virginia Tech Students Complain of 50 Types of Microaggressions
Uh, fifty types of microaggressions? Those exist? Multiple groups at Virginia Tech have collaborated to collect “microaggression testimonials” from students, who came up with roughly 50 different expressions that offend them. The examples are currently displayed…
Dark Money in Science
Just a few months ago, mothers in Flint, Michigan prohibited their kids from taking baths after actor Mark Ruffalo claimed the city’s water contained dangerous levels of chloroform. Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards, who initially…
Virginia Tech Re-Invites Speaker after Outcry
From Campus Reform: University president Timothy Sands issued a statement Thursday saying the school has “apologized to Jason Riley for this error in judgment, and Dean [Robert] Sumichrast has invited him to speak at Virginia…
Virginia Tech Students Claim Economics’ Bell Curve Author as Racist
Charles Murray, a respected conservative economist, co-wrote a book on the famous bell curve in economics. But, liberal Virginia Tech students are calling him racist. Photo by vlasta2 Photo by vlasta2
Colleges Are All For Diversity — Except When It Comes To Ideas
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation website. ALEXANDRIA, VA — When it comes to “diversity,” American colleges and universities are eager to embrace differences in race, ethnic background, religion,…
Conservative Group Fights Back and Wins
A pair of incidents remind us that we are still living in a democracy and peaceful pushback can work, even on a college campus. Both stories involve Young Americans For Freedom (known as YAF). Two…
Virginia Tech Implements Ideological Litmus Test for Tenure
This is not a good thing if universities really want full inclusion of people from varying ideologies: “Virginia Tech is reportedly requiring professors seeking tenure to pass a sort of litmus test when it comes to…