The next time you hear a journalism student, when asked why he or she wants to get into the profession, say they “want to make a difference,” cringe.
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The Big Chill
Two veteran professors from both coasts gave Campus Report radio listeners an idea of the chill on free speech of politically correct norms in academia particularly on issues relating in any way to race.
GWU Student President: Activist Groups’ Leadership is Too White
George Washington University has another controversy on its hands with regards to its campus activism. This time, its student body president endorsed a progressive effort to push for more diversity among student activist groups’ leadership…
Higher Education: The Pompous & the Profane
Academics have always prided themselves on elevated discourse, frequently at the expense of the rest of us. Their claims of reaching this exalted state are increasingly, well, out of reach.
It’s time for UC Regents to implement principles against intolerance they adopted
Editor’s Note: This op-ed was originally published at The Mercury News. In our nation today, we are witnessing an unprecedented unwillingness to accept, or merely recognize and respect, beliefs or behavior that differ from our own. It…
Racism 101 Course Held to Teach White Students about Racism at Ohio State
This sounds like targeting a specific racial demographic, doesn’t it? Way to go, Ohio State University: The Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University held a “conversation with white students” regarding racism…
Ohio State Vice President Tells Sit-In Protesters to Stop or Be Arrested
Way to take a stand, Ohio State University. Photo by Howard TJ
UC-Irvine Students Start Petition to Eliminate the ‘Slave Patrol’ Campus Police
Yet they only have 200 signatures to boot: The Black Student Union at the University of California, Irvine has called for the abolition of the campus police department, calling the very idea of policing “unethical.”…
Arthur Miller — Communist
On the centenary of his birth, he remains the playwright who made anti-communism a hate crime. By Paul Kengor – 10.16.15 October 17, 2015 is the centenary of the birth of Arthur Miller, one of…
Pomona College Students Don’t Like Forbes’ No.1 Ranking of Their School
Some students don’t know how to enjoy top status: A cohort of angry students at the small, private liberal arts college in Claremont, Calif., demanded administrators remove from their website a news release touting the…