Wow! Catfishing is when someone creates a fake online persona to lure people and trick them into thinking that they exist, and it looks like ‘Jackie’ did so for a guy she liked.
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Cal-Irvine Doesn’t Acknowledge History of Anti-Semitic Incidents since 2001
Good reporting by Campus Reform: Although Gillman [UCI chancellor] denies the existence of a widespread problem with anti-Semitism on his campus, public records reaching as far back as 2001 list multiple incidents dealing with anti-Semitism….
Students at Yale wants to “De-Colonize” English Dept Curriculum
What does that even mean?! De-colonizing English courses is apparently a thing: “The petition “calls for the abolishment of this prerequisite and for the pre-1800/1900 requirements to refocus and include literature relating to gender, race and sexuality.”
Two Dead in UCLA Murder-Suicide
Tragic. Two dead in an apparent murder-suicide at UCLA.
NYU Law Professor Claims America is in “a Post-Genocidal Society” Today at Commencement
At the University of Delaware, no less: “We are a post-genocidal society. On this continent there were native people, indigenous people, Native Americans, and they were slaughtered by the millions … by white settlers,” Stevenson, a…
Dartmouth College Afraid of Black Lives Matter, Won’t Punish Students who Charged In and Harassed Others
Some Black Lives Matter protesting students marched into the college’s library and made a ruckus, swearing at students who were studying and are not going to face any discipline by the college. Photo by kveets94
Students Sing the Lord’s Prayer at Graduation, a Tradition, in Response to a Threatened Lawsuit
The Freedom from Religion Foundation threatened a lawsuit over the 70-year-old tradition of singing the Lord’s Prayer at graduation, after which students sang it anyways.
Student Activists are Really Radical Today
A good take from David French at the National Review: Campus radicals hold a shared vision that has the potential to rip this nation to shreds. It’s a vision instigated by people with impossible demands…
Liberty University to have Targeted Endowment Fund for Israel Studies
From the Campus Reform: Liberty University thinks the trend of divestment from companies associated with Israel presents a golden opportunity—not just for financial gain, but also to deliver a poke to the liberal eye. The…
Cal-State Administrators May Restrict Conservative Speakers from Campus
Editor’s Note: This discussion occurred at CSU-LA, not UCLA as was previously published. We apologize for the error. At a “healing space” discussion, Cal-State Los Angeles President William Covino said, “I would never” invite a…