In the last presidential election, the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, received much derision when he announced in a debate that as governor of Massachusetts, his team assembled “a binderful of women” as the top applicants…
Topic: academia
Portland State Students Protest Arming of Campus Police
Wait, so if there is an armed shooter on the college campus, who will stop the shooter? Just saying that arming campus police may be a good safety measure.
Harvard University Freshmen Class is Very Liberal
As Campus Reform reported: Harvard’s freshman class contains five times as many liberals as conservatives, according to a survey by the Harvard Crimson. More than 65 percent of Harvard’s class of 2019 identifies as either…
UC Regents Listen to Jewish Community, Publicly Acknowledge Necessity of Addressing Antisemitism!
Regents scrap meaningless Principles Against Intolerance and form a committee to rework the language. Shana Tova! Great start to the new year! After hearing from dozens of students, faculty, alumni and Jewish groups yesterday at…
Free Speech is Back at Johns Hopkins?
The College Fix reported: After a string of free-speech controversies related to abortion in recent years, Johns Hopkins University has adopted a statement on academic freedom that’s being praised at least one higher-education group.
One Public Charter School in West Baltimore is Trying to Change the Culture
As the Washington Examiner reported, one school is trying to change the education environment in poor, western Baltimore: …the Green Street Academy, a public charter school that opened its doors to a new building this…
Pope Gets Academic Certification
[When the Holy Father finds himself on the same page with leading academics, he should worry—ed.] Al Jazeera posted an article, “Bernie Sanders, the pope and the moral imperative of systemic change,” by Gar Alperovitz,…
New Mexico Student Told to Remove American Flag from Dorm Window, Part of a Larger Flag Ban
Campus Reform noted that the ban on hanging flags in one’s dorm room window is to prevent Confederate flags or Nazi flags from being displayed in windows.
Federal Gov’t Study Costs $438K to Study if Drunk Hookups Lead to HIV
This isn’t a joke. Media Research Center has more on the story: The federal government is spending $437,739 in taxpayer dollars for psychology students at Kalamazoo College to study whether getting drunk and sleeping around…
Boise State Student Newspaper Denies Creationist Ad, says it was “Belligerent”
So much for tolerance on college campuses, huh? Leaders of The Arbiter campus newspaper rejected a request by a creationist group to purchase ad space in its pages, stating “many of their claims could be…