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Yale Calls Comedy Troupe’s Posing with a Sign ‘All Lives Matter’ Racist
Uh, comedy is a microaggression at Yale?
Melissa Click faces Assault and Title IX Charges after Confrontation with Student Journalist
Oh, this isn’t good for Melissa Click, the assistant professor of mass media at Mizzou who tried to get muscle to push out a student journalist for doing his job.
Huh? Mizzou Student VP ‘Tired of Hearing’ about the 1st Amendment
Wait, a student is tired of hearing about how the First Amendment protects free speech? “Last night on MSNBC, Missouri Students Association Vice-President Brenda Smith-Lezama said she is “tired of hearing” about that pesky First…
Mizzou Professor Resigns after Exam Backlash, Mizzou Rejects Resignation
This creates an interesting situation where a professor, Dale Brigham, resigned due to backlash over not moving his exam time while protests were ongoing. However, the university refused his resignation, so where does that leave…
Standardized Testing is Modern-Day Slavery, Principal says
College Fix has more on this: Jamaal Bowman, principal of the intriguingly named Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, wrote in blog entry back in late August that standardized testing “is a form of modern-day slavery,…
University of Missouri Student admits Intimidation, Fear on Campus after President Resigned
A student’s op-ed in the College Fix talks about the tension at Mizzou and how people do not want to speak up.
California School District Bans Drawings of Religious Leaders after Mohammed Doodle Assignment
My goodness, this is now offensive?! Do we have to take everything seriously?! Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District (California) Superintendent Brent Woodard has “banned depicting religious leaders” after some students drew Mohamed on a history…
Study Claims Motorists Run over Black People more than Whites
My goodness, this is a serious conclusion? A recently published study funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation claims to show that black pedestrians face racial discrimination at crosswalks. The study, “Racial bias in driver…
Mizzou’s Social Media Policy is Very 1984-esque, Written by Its Law Students
Great take from the College Fix: Law students wrote a breathtakingly autocratic, sloppy social-media policy that brings to mindThe Simpsons Halloween episode where Ned Flanders rules a 1984-like alternate reality that enforces constant smiling. After…