Faculty Lounge California High School Replaced Mirrors with ‘Notes of Affirmation’ in Girls’ Bathrooms Spencer Irvine April 7, 2017 A California high school replaced mirrors in the girls’ bathrooms with ‘notes of affirmation’ such as ‘You are loved.’ Really?
Faculty Lounge Diversity Council’s White Supremacy Awareness Campaign Flops, Offends Fellow Students Spencer Irvine March 30, 2017 Instead of its intended effect of creating constructive, inclusive dialogue, the recent effort to criticize white supremacy and racism at…
Faculty Lounge Rick Perry, Energy Secretary, Blasted Alma Mater’s Student Government Election Result Spencer Irvine March 29, 2017 Rick Perry, who served as the Governor of Texas and is now the Department of Energy cabinet secretary under President Donald Trump, criticized his alma mater’s student government election results.
Faculty Lounge Watch Out for Human Privilege: ‘Critical Plant Studies’ Criticizes Humans Spencer Irvine There’s a new theory in plant studies: ‘Critical Plant Studies.’ Per The College Fix, it focuses on the plants and plant…
Perspectives Academic Intolerance: An Inside View Malcolm A. Kline March 28, 2017 We have an old Pennsylvania Dutch saying that goes: “Ve grow too soon alt und too late schmart.” Perhaps many…
Faculty Lounge Professors are Offered $2,000 to ‘Diversify’ Their Courses to be More Inclusive Spencer Irvine March 24, 2017 Sounds like a bunch of academic and politically-correct jargon, doesn’t it? Administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay are offering…
Faculty Lounge Carnegie Mellon University Advised Professors to Avoid ‘Microinequities’ in Lectures Spencer Irvine Per Campus Reform, Carnegie Mellon University has published a guide to advise professors to avoid “micro inequities” and other politically-correct…
Faculty Lounge New Course: ‘Creating LGBTQ Inclusive Schools’ Spencer Irvine March 22, 2017 You can look at the summary for yourself on what the course offers. Oh, it also costs $330 for 3…
Faculty Lounge Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It Spencer Irvine March 21, 2017 Apparently, the word “homosexual” can be offensive to gays at Emerson College. Instead, students are recommended to use the words…
Faculty Lounge Bethel University Faculty: Christianity Tells Us to Avoid Using Words like ‘Man’ or ‘Mankind’ Spencer Irvine March 20, 2017 This sounds like satire, but it is actually true: A guide published by the Bethel library called “Language is a Powerful…
Faculty Lounge University of Nebraska gave students a ‘queer and trans community language’ guide Spencer Irvine Sounds like a productive use of university resources, doesn’t it? Spending time to create a language guide for their students was…
Faculty Lounge ‘Freshmen’ Out, ‘First-Years’ In? Possible Plan Underway at Yale to Redo Wording Spencer Irvine March 19, 2017 To avoid offending people, Yale is considering changing the name of first-year students from “freshmen” to “first-years.” Why? “Freshmen” is…
