This move to add their names to a ‘professor watchlist’ could backfire on them, you know. Notre Dame professors wrote an open letter to add their names, as have other professors from around the country….
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Stanford Marching Band’s Suspension Stirs Controversy
From The College Fix: Stanford University’s funky and daring yet controversial marching band has been suspended through the spring 2017 semester, prompting band members and others to denounce the sanction as unfair and a crack down…
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Vulgar: LGBT Teens Protest Donald Trump by sending Adjusted Lollipops to Trump Tower
From The College Fix (warning: NSFW language): According to The Huffington Post, “Jules” and “Gabe” created the website Send Trump Pussy! which says the pair “will anonymously send all lollipop orders directly to Trump’s headquarters in New York.” According…
University of Oregon Punished Professor for Halloween Costume, but Law Professors Disagree
From The College Fix: Law professors around the country are frowning upon the university’s finding that one of their peers, School of Law Prof. Nancy Shurtz, committed “discriminatory harassment” by dressing as a black male…
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Liberals Tried to Disinvite Speakers SEVEN Times More than Conservatives
From The College Fix: FIRE has been chronicling attempts by students and faculty to stop perceived controversial speakers from lecturing on campus since its first disinvitation report came out in 2014. Individual Rights Defense Program…
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College Students Unhappy University of Chicago Invited Trump’s Press Secretary
Looks like Sean Spicer is not beloved among the college students at the University of Chicago: According to The Chicago Maroon, the Spicer announcement “drew criticism from some students who say they may protest the IOP’s…
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Thomas Sowell Penned Final Syndicated Column This Week and Retires
From The College Fix: Economist Thomas Sowell, who has taught at several major universities going back to the 1960s, ended his quarter-century as a columnist for Creators Syndicate with his final entry today. He’s a champion…
Northeastern Student Group Demands ‘Sanctuary Campus’ Status for Dining Hall Workers
From The College Fix: The university’s Huskies Organizing with Labor (HOWL), an umbrella group of more than 40 student groups at NU, first came on the scene in 2012 as a sort of Justice League…
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App Yik Yak No Longer Anonymous, College Users are Fleeing Use of the App
Yik Yak, a popular app among college students, is no longer anonymous and users are apparently leaving the app as a result.
Drexel Professor Tweeted on Christmas Eve that ‘All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide’
A professor tweeted out, on Christmas Eve no less, that he wants a ‘white genocide’. Now he claimed it’s a joke gone wrong.