These students are trying to put pressure on a backer of Illinois’ governor Bruce Rauner. Yeah, but there were only six students protesting, so probably not much pressure at all.
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These students are trying to put pressure on a backer of Illinois’ governor Bruce Rauner. Yeah, but there were only six students protesting, so probably not much pressure at all.
In Part 1 of this two-part report, I pointed out that “Many exhibits in the new $500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. will be worthwhile. They will highlight…
Over 150 professors at the University of Chicago don’t like what their dean of students said about no more ‘trigger warnings’ or ‘safe spaces’: More than 150 professors from the University of Chicago are pushing…
The letter written by University of Chicago Dean of Students John Ellison said they don’t have safe spaces and will not give trigger warnings to students, which the Left is outraged by. Good for Chicago.
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Academe Blog. It’s praiseworthy that the University of Chicago has announced to its students a “commitment to freedom of inquiry and expression.” But there is a…
The Chicago Tribune featured an op-ed by its editorial board, which criticized the private Catholic university DePaul for barring controversial speakers Milo Yiannopoulos and Ben Shapiro (both of the conservative and libertarian mold) from speaking…
Why not divest from China, if some academics are pushing to divest from Israel?
Black students were upset that they received low grades while in the University of Chicago’s law school, with Antonin Scalia as their professor. They claimed he was racist, but the law school has a blind…
Well, there you have it; no such thing as a free lunch: The interim president of Loyola University-Chicago isn’t waiting for his successor to decide whether students should be forced to take a diversity class….
Via College Fix: New Trier High School, one of the nation’s top public schools located in Chicago’s posh North Shore, will not have the day off on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day unlike other schools…