Faculty Lounge Trigger Warnings Needed for Pokemon Go and the U.S. Constitution, Apparently Spencer Irvine August 31, 2016 According to one student’s experience, some college students issued trigger warnings (or warnings to others that material or a word…
Faculty Lounge SUNY-Binghampton had RA Campaign Called ‘Stop White People 2K16’ Spencer Irvine August 27, 2016 From the College Fix: #StopWhitePeople2K16: It’s just a joke. That’s the explanation from the State University of New York-Binghamton on…
Faculty Lounge University of Chicago Administrator Tells Students that Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings are Nowhere to be Found Spencer Irvine August 26, 2016 What a stance against the politically correct culture that is often found on college campuses today: John Ellison, Dean of…
Faculty Lounge Don’t Use the Word “Man,” Princeton HR says Spencer Irvine August 24, 2016 Uh, what? This isn’t a joke, but is something that Princeton University’s human resources department decided to do: The Princeton…
Faculty Lounge UGA Dean says a Monica Lewinsky Joke could Encourage Sexual Harassment Spencer Irvine August 22, 2016 After an University of Georgia professor accidentally sent a pun-filled and off-color joke about Monica Lewinsky to a student listserv…
Faculty Lounge Maryland County School System Bans Use of “Gifted and Talented” Spencer Irvine August 18, 2016 We can’t reward those who work hard and are academically talented, at least that’s the proposal in Baltimore County public…
Faculty Lounge Update on Wisconsin-Stout: Old Portrait Can Only Be Seen by Appointment Spencer Irvine August 17, 2016 This isn’t a joke; now students can only see an eighty-year-old painting by appointment in a conference room at the…
Faculty Lounge University of Florida Professor Bans the Term ‘Melting Pot’ Spencer Irvine August 15, 2016 Apparently, the term ‘melting pot’ is offensive.
Faculty Lounge Claremont College Students Don’t Want to Live with White People Spencer Irvine August 12, 2016 Um, isn’t that a bit racist? This bit of news from the Claremont Independent, a student newspaper: A group of…
Faculty Lounge Native American Paintings are ‘Harmful,’ said University of Wisconsin-Stout Spencer Irvine August 11, 2016 Historical revisionism + PC culture = being offended at old paintings: The University of Wisconsin-Stout has announced plans to remove…
Faculty Lounge No Sanctions for University of Houston Student after ‘All Lives Matter’ Social Media Post Spencer Irvine August 10, 2016 The president of the University of Houston, Shane Smith, removed the 50-day suspension and instead, student body vice president Rohini…
Faculty Lounge For ‘All Lives Matter’ Post, Student Gets 50 Day Suspension, has to Attend Cultural Events Spencer Irvine University of Houston punished a student for a social media post that included the words, ‘All Lives Matter’, in response…
