Specifically, the Democratic governor vetoed the bill, which would allow homeschooled children to play sports at their local public schools. Don’t their parents pay taxes, so shouldn’t they be allowed to do so? Photo by…
Monthly Archives For March 2016
Larycia Hawkins, the Hijab-Wearing Professor, is Researching Islam at UVA
She has traded in her teaching position at Wheaton College in Illinois for an Islam research job at the University of Virginia.
Gettysburg College Administrators Accused of Siding Against Pro-Life Posters
From Campus Reform: A conservative student group is accusing Gettysburg College of censorship after an administrator publicly sided with student vandals who ripped down the group’s pro-life flyers. Alissa Lopez, vice-chair of the school’s Young…
Rutgers President Defends Free Speech after Controversial Speech
It is ludicrous that someone has to defend free speech, especially on a college campus. Rutgers University president Robert Bachi is calling on his university to stand up for free speech after a student group…
University of Delaware Targets Gun Rights Campus Group by Banning Ammunition
Sounds like targeted language by the University of Delaware: Pro-Second Amendment students believe the University of Delaware recently imposed new restrictions on student groups in direct response to their successful request for funding to buy…
Right Turn in Academe?
A writer from The New Yorker actually noticed a political bias in academe: She claims it tilts right. Actually, Jane Mayer’s article, “How a Handful of Wealthy Reactionaries Tugged Academe to the Right,” which appeared…
After Pressure, Mount St. Mary’s President Resigns
Simon Newman resigned, effectively immediately, after his leadership came under fire due to firing two professors, demoting a provost and pressure struggling freshmen students to leave class. Photo by opie0429
The Paranoid View of History Infects Oberlin
This article was originally posted on Times of Israel. “i-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How does history…
Safe Space for Students at a Bowdoin College Tequila-Themed Party
Seriously, since some people wore sombreros at the party?! Photo by jaymiek Photo by jaymiek
40 Columbia University Faculty Members Sign Onto Anti-Israel BDS Petition
Not surprising, anymore. Forty Columbia University faculty have signed a petition calling for the school to “divest from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.” The faculty…