The student also called for the firing of Peter Singer from Princeton, who has called for the ending of lives of disabled infants.
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Wisconsin’s Diversity Program is Not Doing Very Well
A program specifically geared to creating diversity doesn’t work at University of Wisconsin. Ouch.
Lawyers for ‘Jackie’ of Rolling Stone-UVA Rape Hoax Admit She was Trying to Catfish a Student
Wow! Catfishing is when someone creates a fake online persona to lure people and trick them into thinking that they exist, and it looks like ‘Jackie’ did so for a guy she liked.
VCU Prof: Brazilian Evangelicals Rise Up
The Post story, “In Brazil’s political crisis, a powerful new force: Evangelical Christians,” is an amazing account from a liberal perspective of how Christian conservatives are taking back their country. One leading critic of the…
Cal-Irvine Doesn’t Acknowledge History of Anti-Semitic Incidents since 2001
Good reporting by Campus Reform: Although Gillman [UCI chancellor] denies the existence of a widespread problem with anti-Semitism on his campus, public records reaching as far back as 2001 list multiple incidents dealing with anti-Semitism….
Students at Yale wants to “De-Colonize” English Dept Curriculum
What does that even mean?! De-colonizing English courses is apparently a thing: “The petition “calls for the abolishment of this prerequisite and for the pre-1800/1900 requirements to refocus and include literature relating to gender, race and sexuality.”
Two Dead in UCLA Murder-Suicide
Tragic. Two dead in an apparent murder-suicide at UCLA.
NYU Law Professor Claims America is in “a Post-Genocidal Society” Today at Commencement
At the University of Delaware, no less: “We are a post-genocidal society. On this continent there were native people, indigenous people, Native Americans, and they were slaughtered by the millions … by white settlers,” Stevenson, a…
Dartmouth College Afraid of Black Lives Matter, Won’t Punish Students who Charged In and Harassed Others
Some Black Lives Matter protesting students marched into the college’s library and made a ruckus, swearing at students who were studying and are not going to face any discipline by the college. Photo by kveets94
Students Sing the Lord’s Prayer at Graduation, a Tradition, in Response to a Threatened Lawsuit
The Freedom from Religion Foundation threatened a lawsuit over the 70-year-old tradition of singing the Lord’s Prayer at graduation, after which students sang it anyways.