From The College Fix: The Student Coalition for Progress at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently pushed a petition that alleged University of Wisconsin Madison’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter is a hate group and its members and efforts “create…
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Ban Milo Yiannopoulos from Campus, ‘Anti-Fascism ‘Advocates Tell Cal-Berkeley
Apparently, being “anti-fascist” means that you want to ban free speech by a controversial public figure like Milo Yiannopoulos. Oh the irony: One UC Berkeley group, named Berkeley Antifa, created a Facebook event dedicated to disrupting and…
Socialist Student Group: Walk Out on Inauguration Day
Socialists are banding together to walk out of schools on Trump’s Inauguration Day. Hopefully, these anti-Trump types won’t beat up a pro-Trump supporter, like what happened in Maryland.
Judge to Georgia: Illegal Immigrant Students Should be Charged In-State Tuition
A Georgia judge told the University of Georgia system that it has to charge illegal immigrant students in-state tuition. The university’s Board of Regents will challenge the ruling, since at least one previous ruling had…
1,300 Professors Sign Petition to Ask Senate to Reject Jeff Sessions as Attorney General
Even with his federal prosecutorial experience, 1,300 professors do not think Alabama U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions is qualified to be the next Attorney General. This from Campus Reform: The petition cites allegations of “prejudice against African Americans”…
Student Body President at FIU Sent Anti-Trump Holiday Message
Wonder if people would be doing this if Hillary Clinton won the election. This from Campus Reform: The Student Body President of Florida International University sent a campus-wide email to air grievances about President-elect Trump’s…
Implicit Bias Training is Ineffective, Researchers Say
From Campus Reform: The Columbia Missourian recently reported that the University of Missouri has required all members of faculty search committees to undergo unconscious bias training, but a groundbreaking new study shows that implicit biases have…
Scottish University Course Issued Trigger Warning for Bible Crucifixion Story
Nope, you can’t make this up. This from The College Fix: An “Introduction to the Bible” class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is reportedly giving trigger warnings to students before studying the crucifixion…
University of London Student Union Doesn’t Want to Learn about White Philosophers
From The College Fix: The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) student union at the University of London is demanding that philosophers Plato, Descartes, and Kant should be — mostly — supplanted by those from…
Students and Alumni Want Marching Bands to Miss Trump’s Inauguration
Would the same students and alumni at the University of Tennessee and Talladega College want to boycott a Hillary Clinton inauguration? Very unlikely: Following the release of a list of confirmed performers for the inauguration events,…