The University of California-Davis is the third American college to provide emergency contraception via vending machines. Good idea?
Topic: academia
Abortion Activists Promote ‘Abortion Positive’ Rhetoric
Abortion activists toured five states and went to eleven college campuses and had slogans such as “I got ninety-nine problems but pregnancy ain’t one” in their push to get rid of the Hyde Amendment.
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Community College Faculty Encouraged to Get Students to Participate in Anti-Trump ‘May Day’ Activities
Community college faculty are being encouraged, by their union, to give extra credit to students attending ‘May Day’ activities.
Clemson Administrator: Why Not an Ideological Litmus Test for Student Government?
An ideological litmus test before student government elections? That’s one idea floated by a Clemson administrator.
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Students to Pomona College: Don’t Hire a White Professor due to Her Race
Some Pomona College students demand that the college rescind their hiring offer to a white female professor because her research is perceived (by them) as “perpetuat[ing] anti-Blackness.”
Columbia University to Spend $2.5 Million to Study Students’ Sex Lives, Drinking Habits
Columbia University saw fit to spend $2.5 million to study its students’ sex lives and drinking habits.
University: Pro-Life Flag Display ‘Created an Unsafe Environment’
A Canadian University nixed a pro-life flag display on their campus because it “created an unsafe environment”.
Study: People are Confused about Climate Change, Weather and Climate Definitions
A professor explained that climate change is confusing for normal, non-academic people because there is a lot of confusion about the definitions of weather and climate.
Another Graffiti Vandal Strikes Confederate Memorial at University of North Carolina
A ‘Black Lives Matter’ themed vandalism incident defaced the “Silent Sam” monument at the University of North Carolina and the university is investigating it.
University of Arizona Professor Suggested Queer Theory be Taught in Elementary Schools
Teaching ‘queer theory’ to children in elementary schools? That’s one suggestion from a professor at the University of Arizona.