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Activism on college campuses are very one-sided. This from Campus Reform: Student government officials at Miami Dade College urged classmates to lobby against President Trump’s executive order preparing for the full repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. During the “Spring Club Rush,” where student groups set up tables to recruit new members, representatives […]

From Campus Reform: Next week, the University of New Hampshire is hosting an event to discuss the distinctions between “White Privilege” and “White Supremacy.” “In a post-inauguration nation, many topics have surfaced as a point of discussion,” begins a flyer for the “White Privilege vs. White Supremacy” event, seemingly attempting to reference President Donald Trump […]

Donald Trump’s adviser Stephen K. Bannon told the truth, but not the whole truth, when he described the media as the main opposition to President Trump. He neglected to mention academia as another important bastion for anti-Trump organizing and action. Speaking at the January 21 so-called Women’s March on Washington, communist Angela Davis declared, “The […]

Per Campus Reform, a “Leftist Fight Club” exists on University of Central Florida’s campus: The “Knights for Socialism” group at the University of Central Florida (UCF) held a workshop Sunday to teach left-wing students how to “BASH THE FASH” with a “Leftist Fight Club” open to everyone but Republicans. “In response to the record number […]

In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American students. The percentage of foreign students enrolling in both public and private colleges and universities has skyrocketed. Their sponsors, Middle […]

Betsy DeVos, a pro-school choice advocate and philanthropist, has been confirmed by Senate vote to become the next Department of Education secretary to fill President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm DeVos. .@VP Pence breaks tie. U.S. Senate confirms #BetsyDeVos to be Secretary of Education, 51-50. https://t.co/xgthuQB51c #BREAKING […]

From Casey Mattox at The Federalist: On the campus of the University of California at Berkeley is a monument to student free speech. It commemorates the Free Speech Movement that began at Berkeley in the 1960s. It should be moved. On February 1 on that campus, a mob pepper-sprayed a woman, injured six people, started […]

The liberal, Massachusetts-based Wheaton College (not to be confused with the Christian college by the same name in Illinois) is championing refugees. This from The College Fix: In the latest example of academia thumbing its nose at the new White House administration, Massachusetts’ Wheaton College announced it will be offering a full scholarship to “a refugee […]

Eco-terrorism, which has caused tens of millions of dollars in property damage over several decades, was the focus of a recent panel discussion at the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) held in Philadelphia early this year. Cal-State Fullerton assistant professor of English, Nicole Seymour, discussed an eco-terrorist cult classic movie “Silent Running,” claiming that eco-terrorism […]

From Walter Williams’ latest piece on the college “snowflake” generation and college administrators: One wonders just how far spineless college administrators will go when it comes to caving in to the demands of campus snowflakes. For those unfamiliar with the term “snowflakes,” it is increasingly being used to characterize college students easily traumatized by criticism […]

There is at least one way in which the Modern Language Association (MLA) that thousands of English professors belong to lives up to its name: they traverse in a vocabulary most of us working stiffs would never contemplate employing informally, or even formally. Here is a sampling of what we got to hear for four […]

From Campus Reform: Campus Reform attended the March to find out why protesters were attending, as well as to ask their thoughts on the compatibility of pro-life ideologies with feminism. After speaking with over 50 participants, the overall consensus was that Trump threatened women’s “reproductive rights”—i.e. abortion—and talks about women in a way that encourages “rape […]