Faculty Lounge Poll: 71% of Democrats want to Punish Free Speech, like Hate Speech Spencer Irvine January 13, 2016 Hate speech is not something we encourage, but it is protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution. Yet Democrats…
MLA, Perspectives Academic Animal Studies/Farm Malcolm A. Kline George Orwell might have been amused. Academia is well on its way to quite literally becoming Animal Farm. Indeed, the…
Faculty Lounge Push-ups, Other Disciplinary Actions by Ohio State Marching Band Banned by Administrators Spencer Irvine Well, political correctness and sensitivity running amok: Ohio State University (OSU) recently banned senior members of its prestigious marching band…
Faculty Lounge Missouri Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Protect Student Journalists Spencer Irvine January 12, 2016 This is, no doubt, a response to Melissa Click’s attempt to kick out a student journalist from protests at the…
Faculty Lounge ACLU Scares Elementary School to Stop ‘God Bless America’ after Pledge of Allegiance Spencer Irvine It was a tradition started after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New Jersey’s Glenview Elementary School and now the ACLU…
Faculty Lounge Rape Exhibit at Columbia gets the Trigger Warning Treatment Spencer Irvine It’s a confusing situation. First, the exhibit was poorly advertised, then flyers were passed out to warn of a trigger…
MLA, Perspectives Rock, Paper, Scissors Malcolm A. Kline It’s interesting that some of the same people who go ballistic at the suggestion that corporations are people are quite…
Faculty Lounge Health Care is Racist, says UC-Davis Medical Students Spencer Irvine But, they did not define what was inherently racist about health care. Huh?!
Faculty Lounge George Mason University College Republicans Protested Obama’s Townhall on Guns Spencer Irvine January 11, 2016 Prior to last week’s townhall debate, televised by CNN at George Mason University, College Republicans protested the anti-gun rhetoric of…
Faculty Lounge Why is the Dept of Ed Stripping Due Process? Spencer Irvine Chairman of a Senate education subcommittee is asking why due process is being stripped from students. Good question, Senator Lankford.
Faculty Lounge Sagging Pants Notice is Racist, Apparently Spencer Irvine Arkansas’s Henderson State University posted a notice that sagging pants are not tolerated on their campus. Some students called it…
Faculty Lounge Notre Dame Professor Believes Permissive Gun Laws Manifest Racism Spencer Irvine The New York Times ran a Notre Dame professor’s op-ed on gun laws relating to racism: A professor of philosophy…
