Faculty Lounge Larycia Hawkins, the Hijab-Wearing Professor, is Researching Islam at UVA Spencer Irvine March 5, 2016 She has traded in her teaching position at Wheaton College in Illinois for an Islam research job at the University…
Faculty Lounge UVa’s Jackie Texts Released to a News Affiliate Spencer Irvine February 19, 2016 ‘Jackie’, the center of a defamation lawsuit and a rape hoax at the University of Virginia, was also catfishing her…
Faculty Lounge UVa’s ‘Jackie’ Can’t Hide Records in Defamation Lawsuit Spencer Irvine January 29, 2016 Via College Fix: Jackie Coakley can’t hide her secrets any longer. The student at the heart of Rolling Stone‘s discredited gang-rape…
MLA, Perspectives Rape Narrative Over Due Process Spencer Irvine January 18, 2016 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) new punching bag is due process, as one session in their annual convention demonstrated (The…
Faculty Lounge “Jackie” in UVa Rape Hoax is Ordered by Judge to Turn Over Communications Spencer Irvine January 14, 2016 Via the College Fix: The source of Rolling Stone’s retracted story on gang rape at the University of Virginia, “Jackie,”…
Perspectives Universities Searching for Hoaxes Spencer Irvine October 27, 2015 Universities have come a long way from the days of yore when they proclaimed that part of their mission was…
Perspectives Colleges Micromanaging Free Speech Malcolm A. Kline August 21, 2015 Back in the day, when bosses and CEOs got a little too attentive to detail, we would wryly note that…
Faculty Lounge White House Adviser Introduced “Jackie” to Reporter for Rolling Stone Story Spencer Irvine July 26, 2015 Campus Reform reported the following: “Rolling Stone has confirmed through court documents that Emily Renda, a White House sexual assault adviser…
Perspectives Too Big to Fail is a Failure Spencer Irvine July 24, 2015 Five years after President Obama signed it into law to address America’s financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act and the federal…
Faculty Lounge Mizzou joins Virginia as Universities Banning Free Speech Zones Spencer Irvine July 21, 2015 This is a good thing to protect free speech on college campuses. The more colleges that ban these free speech…
Faculty Lounge Conservative Counties have Stronger Families than Liberal Counties, UVA Study finds Spencer Irvine July 7, 2015 As the College Fix noted: “New research by the director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project flips the elite…
Faculty Lounge Columbia University Dean: Journalists need to get Both Sides of Campus Sexual Assault Stories Spencer Irvine April 10, 2015 Uh, yes, this should be established and common sense for journalists, but we’ve seen with the Rolling Stone story about…