Oh, because the conservatives at Mizzou outnumber liberals and the conservatives run the world *sarcasm font*: Melissa Click, who was fired by the Board of Curators late last month and initially justified her action as trying…
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Student Paper at Cal-Berkeley Threatens to Close if Student Fees Aren’t Added to Support Them
The University of California-Berkeley’s student paper, The Daily Californian, begged students to vote for a student fee to support their operation. Photo by hyperion327
New Mexico College Students Protest Ban on Stun Guns
The university banned stun guns on their campus, so students are protesting to have the option to have stun guns for safety reasons. Photo by campcophotos
No Free Speech Problems on America’s College Campuses, Some Democratic Congress Members Disagree
In a hearing on free speech on college campuses, Democrats dismissed the idea that free speech is under fire at liberal academic institutions like colleges and universities: The subcommittee’s Democratic members, however, refused even to…
University of Tennessee Students Interrupt Basketball Game, then Surround Congressman’s Car
The thing is, the university’s diversity office (yes, there is such a thing at the Univeristy of Tennessee-Knoxville) doesn’t even receive federal funding, which was why the protesters were upset in the first place: “Who…
Less than 20 Students Push Seattle Pacific University to Adopt Microaggression Reporting System
Well, another one bites the dust and bows to social justice activists: Seattle Pacific University’s administration folded to many of the demands of the SPU Justice Coalition – apparently composed of fewer than 20 students…
Young Americans for Freedom Group Called ‘KKK’ by Critics
Oh, that’s not fair at all, plus it’s very inaccurate. After protesters’ efforts at thwarting conservative speaker Ben Shapiro from delivering a talk last week were unsuccessful, campus progressives have turned their attention to the…
Mandatory Diversity Training for GWU Student Association after Funding Dispute
It reads like a soap opera, doesn’t it? The executive cabinet of the George Washington University Student Association will have to go through “diversity training” due to a squabble over funding for a guest lecturer….
Did the Feds Mess Up the 2008 Recession?
That was the question on the minds of several economists at a panel discussion held at the Cato Institute recently. Daniel L. Thornton, former vice president and economic adviser for the Federal Reserve Bank of…
Canadian University Imposes Quotas on Self-Identifying Applicants
From the College Fix: Criticism of diversity quotas is coming from an odd place: an editor of a Canadian newsweekly. The University of Manitoba is set to institute a quota system that reserves 45 percent of…