As Campus Reform reported: Harvard’s freshman class contains five times as many liberals as conservatives, according to a survey by the Harvard Crimson. More than 65 percent of Harvard’s class of 2019 identifies as either…
Monthly Archives For September 2015
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UC Regents Listen to Jewish Community, Publicly Acknowledge Necessity of Addressing Antisemitism!
Regents scrap meaningless Principles Against Intolerance and form a committee to rework the language. Shana Tova! Great start to the new year! After hearing from dozens of students, faculty, alumni and Jewish groups yesterday at…
Free Speech is Back at Johns Hopkins?
The College Fix reported: After a string of free-speech controversies related to abortion in recent years, Johns Hopkins University has adopted a statement on academic freedom that’s being praised at least one higher-education group.
One Public Charter School in West Baltimore is Trying to Change the Culture
As the Washington Examiner reported, one school is trying to change the education environment in poor, western Baltimore: …the Green Street Academy, a public charter school that opened its doors to a new building this…
Pope Gets Academic Certification
[When the Holy Father finds himself on the same page with leading academics, he should worry—ed.] Al Jazeera posted an article, “Bernie Sanders, the pope and the moral imperative of systemic change,” by Gar Alperovitz,…
New Mexico Student Told to Remove American Flag from Dorm Window, Part of a Larger Flag Ban
Campus Reform noted that the ban on hanging flags in one’s dorm room window is to prevent Confederate flags or Nazi flags from being displayed in windows.
Federal Gov’t Study Costs $438K to Study if Drunk Hookups Lead to HIV
This isn’t a joke. Media Research Center has more on the story: The federal government is spending $437,739 in taxpayer dollars for psychology students at Kalamazoo College to study whether getting drunk and sleeping around…
Boise State Student Newspaper Denies Creationist Ad, says it was “Belligerent”
So much for tolerance on college campuses, huh? Leaders of The Arbiter campus newspaper rejected a request by a creationist group to purchase ad space in its pages, stating “many of their claims could be…
Single Letter to the Editor May Cancel Kiss Cam at Syracuse
As the College Fix reported: Syracuse University may cease using its “kiss cam” at sporting events after a letter to the editor complained that “it sends the wrong message at a time when colleges are…
Planned Parenthood Lobbying as “Classics” Education
Posted September 22, 2015, by Mary Grabar at the Dissident Prof: After the series of undercover films by the Center for Medical Progress showing high-ranking Planned Parenthood executives negotiating the sale of fetal body parts,…