Faculty Lounge Major GOP Donor Adelson gives money to Organize Anti-BDS Efforts Spencer Irvine May 29, 2015 Sheldon Adelson, a major GOP donor, is giving money to help organize anti-BDS (the divestment from Israel) movement on college…
Faculty Lounge Colleges Pressured to Divest from Fossil Fuels Spencer Irvine May 2, 2015 But, if American colleges and universities do divest from fossil fuels, then how can they increase their endowment funds? Fossil…
Faculty Lounge Anti-Semitic Graffiti, including Swastikas, Spray-Painted at a Stanford Frat Spencer Irvine April 29, 2015 The act of vandalism will be labeled a hate crime, and some wonder if it’s the backlash from the contentious…
Faculty Lounge Stanford Student May Have Been Discriminated Against for Being a Jew Spencer Irvine April 16, 2015 Sad, but possibly true. Here’s what The College Fix reported: “The Stanford Review has come out with an investigative report…
Faculty Lounge Israel Divestment Student Vote Passed in Close Vote Spencer Irvine April 2, 2015 Even the university’s chapter of the Red Cross voted in favor of divesting from Israel, but the national organization said…
Faculty Lounge Loyola-Chicago Students Continue to Push Divestment from Israel, Admin Says No Spencer Irvine March 24, 2015 After the university president blasted the student government body’s divestment from Israel resolution, it was temporarily tabled. Now, the student…
Faculty Lounge Despite BDS movement, No Actual Divestment from Israel Spencer Irvine March 17, 2015 The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on college campuses has not led to full divestment from Israel by college…
Faculty Lounge Anti-Israel Activists Botch Election Procedures, but Whine Enough to Get Special Election Spencer Irvine March 15, 2015 Seems that following the rules is not the anti-Israel, pro-divestment activists’ way of doing things. As The College Fix reported:…
Faculty Lounge Jewish Groups ask for UC-Davis to Investigate Vandalism Spencer Irvine February 25, 2015 As The College Fix reported, Jewish groups on UC-Davis’s campus are asking for an investigation into a leading divestment-from-Israel student…
Faculty Lounge Anti-Oil Rutgers Students Displaced by Feminist Protests On Campus Spencer Irvine February 18, 2015 Uh, that’s embarrassing. The oil divestment protesters were told to leave a protest “free speech zone” to not inhibit a…
Faculty Lounge California Students want to Divest from the U.S., but should have Federal Student Loans Revoked Spencer Irvine February 11, 2015 It’s a good point, considering that if these University of California system students want to actually divest from the U.S.,…
Faculty Lounge California College Students call for Divestment from Israel Spencer Irvine Yet another vote of University of California students for the boycotting of Israel and for divestment from Israel. No surprise…