More outrage! Outcry! Swarthmore College student Jacob Malin noticed something amiss on a poster in the college’s French Department: It appeared “the faces of the three students of color looked like they had been intentionally…
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Texas Students Stage ‘Die-In’ Protest of a Play due to Blackface
College students at Texas are apparently saying, historical accuracy be damned: University of Texas-Austin protesters don’t want theater audiences to know that white actors wore blackface on stage in the “Roaring 20s.” They staged a…
Six Private Universities in Texas Opt Out of Concealed Carry on Campus
St. Mary’s University in San Antonio joins five other universities to ban concealed carry on their campuses.
Hunting Ground Filmmakers think Criticism by Harvard Professors Violates Title IX
Filmmakers take issue with criticism: When Northwestern University students were offended by Prof. Laura Kipnis’s criticism of “sexual paranoia” on college campuses in an essay, they accused her of violating Title IX by creating a “hostile…
School District Bills High School Student Over $7,000 for FOIA Request
The details of why it would cost over $7,000 seems very sketchy: When Robbins “requested a list of which websites were blocked, any guidelines for which websites were blocked, and for the emails in which…
St. Louis University Slows Down Occupy SLU Monument amid Declining Interest by Students
Instead of a monument, it may be some type of artwork, or something.
Academic Claims that Student Protests haven’t Violated Anyone’s Rights
Did this academic forget about the Missouri student journalist who was being threatened by a professor at the University of Missouri and other recent instances? Sounds like selective memory.
Law Student Chastised by Ohio State Law School Dean over Pro-Life Op-Ed
Censorship and intimidation on college campuses continue…so much for free speech and being a place for the free exchange of ideas: Ohio State University law student Madison Gesiotto has received threats over social media, was…
George Washington University Student Told to Take Down Palestinian Flag from Dorm Window
The student is fighting GW about the insistence to remove the flag: Following “many complaints” to the campus police department, an officer showed up to student Ramie Abounaja’s room Oct. 26, told him to remove the…
Ole Miss Strikes “Christmas” from Tree Lighting Ceremony
Disappointing news from Ole Miss: …at the University of Mississippi, its annual “A Grand Ole Christmas” tree-lighting ceremony last week was renamed “Hotty Toddy Holiday,” with an event organizer telling the campus NewsWatch Ole Miss: “Grand Ole…