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Fair Admission to All?

At a recent Heritage Foundation event, several distinguished lawyers and law experts had an exciting and at times contentious panel debate over the possibility of the U.S. Supreme Court putting the case of Fisher vs. University of Texas , which involves racial considerations in college admissions, on the docket.

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Wide World of Sports

In a recent study, academic economists with impressive credentials put their collective talents to work to determine what the average sports fan has learned over a lifetime of pursuing that hobby.

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Academia Gaga for Gaga

One of the trends that’s recently taken hold in academia is the focus on deconstructing/or and elevating pop culture icons into objects worthy of serious academic study.

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Who is Persecuting Whom?

The governor of Texas, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, got a first-hand taste of what college life is like for conservative students on a foray into an Ames, Iowa coffee shop.

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RMPs Pass Academic Test

Some observers such as your servant have been dismissed for reading and relating the anonymous reviews found on Rate My Professors.com.

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Life & Death in Academia

Putting the power of life and death in anyone’s hands is a dubious undertaking, to put it mildly. Giving such responsibility to a pair of academics is questionable, at best.

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War College’s Identity Crisis

Marrying the professoriate to America’s fighting force is a marriage even a Las Vegas official wouldn’t bless yet such a union is taking place right now in Pennsylvania.

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