From The College Fix: Shaun King, a New York Daily News columnist with a reputation for mocking students who ask him tough questions, told a student audience that he has “written probably over 100 articles about Donald Trump…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Instructors at Texas Told to Meet Students in Bars to Avoid Campus Carry Rules
This sounds ridiculous, and it is actually true: Some University of Texas professors have taken to holding office hours at a gun-free bar on campus in order circumvent the state’s new campus carry law. The…
Conservative Students Wonder Why College Republicans have to Pay Security Fee while College Democrats Don’t
Why does Cornell University charge for extra security for College Republican events and not for College Democrats? That is the question that is circulating among Cornell’s College Republicans: The Cornell Republicans tell a similar story….
White Faculty at MIT Form ‘White Person’s Accountability Group’ to Go Over White Privilege
You can’t make this up! This from Campus Reform: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now has a “White Person’s Accountability Group” to help white people understand their “roles both in perpetuating systemic racism and…
University Professor Association Still Unhappy with Revised Immigration Executive Order
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) does not like the revised immigration executive order from the Trump administration and has a history of not liking what is going on in the Trump White House.
Middlebury’s Muddled Mission
Academia today abounds in ironies, although, more often than not, the irony is lost on the denizens of academe itself. By now, the mobbing of conservative scholar Charles Murray at Middlebury College in Vermont has…
White Girls Shouldn’t Wear Hoop Earrings, Latin Student Group says
From Campus Reform: A wall on the side of a Pitzer College dormitory devoted to unmoderated free speech through art (colloquially named “the free wall”), was recently painted by a group of Latino students with…
Satanist Fliers Caused Stir at Clemson University
A flier circulated at Clemson University about a Satanist worship that is allegedly planned at the university’s chapel. It is not clear if it will actually be held, but it did cause a stir at…
Alumna: Violent Protests at Middlebury College should not Repress Free Speech
An alumna of Middlebury College, Jean Card, recently wrote an op-ed blasting the protesters for oppressing free speech during their violent protest of guest speaker Charles Murray: First, discipline for the thugs – who flagrantly…
UNC-Greensboro Flier: Boycott ‘Local Misogynists’ for Women’s Strike
It’s an odd request from a flier at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro: In an email to students and faculty in the school’s Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies Departments, a staff member invited…