Commencement Fail Week at College Insurrection

MIKE LACHANCE MAY 24, 2014 8:30 AM

If nothing else, the Class of 2014 will be remembered for commencement season.

• “Thanks for Not Disinviting Me”
• Condoleezza Rice Defended by… The New York Times?
• Smith College Economics Profs Decry Campus Activists for IMF Director’s Commencement Cancellation
• Former Princeton President Blasts College Students for Speaker Controversy
• Harvard joins list of schools giving its commencement speaker the “brownshirt” treatment
• P.J. O’Rourke tells Rutgers Grads to ‘Go Forth and Fail’

Where did these students get the idea to act in such a way?

• Nancy Pelosi Tells College Grads to be Disruptors

They’re listening to you, Nancy…

• UC Berkeley Students Demand “Sustainable Cap And Gowns”
• Former Quinnipiac Student Stages Graduation Bomb Threat to Hide Dropout Status

Question…

• Loyola Student Wonders if 2016′s Election Will Resemble 2008′s

Answer…

• Young Hillary Supporters Struggle to Name One of Her Accomplishments

Consider this your trigger warning warning…

• Jonah Goldberg Offers Trigger Warning Before Making Fun of Trigger Warnings
• ‘America’s College Kids Are a Bunch of Mollycoddled Babies’
• Do American Literature Classics Need Trigger Warnings?

Truer words were never said…

• Prof. Glenn Reynolds: Higher education is becoming a bad joke

Here’s proof:

• College students continue to display stunning ignorance about Benghazi
• Cinco de Mayo insanity continues: Stanford fraternities and sororities endure “cultural appropriation” scolding
• Butler University Caught Awarding Scholarships on Basis of Race, Gender
• Lewis & Clark administrators sweeps free speech controversy under the rug

White Privilege Update…

• Common Core Author Says He Did it to End White Privilege
• Prof at White Privilege Conference Suggests Marxism Can End Racism

The War on Men…

• U. Oregon’s male students’ Title IX complaint is newest counterstrike in campus “War on Men”

Begins with the War on Boys

• Prager University Video Covers the War on Boys

From the department of global warming…

• Australian Prof Battles University Over Climate Change Data
• An Inconvenient Course: Furman U. student reviews South Carolina school’s class on Al Gore

Of course, it’s not all bad news…

• Harvard survey confirms libertarian streak among Millennials
• Op-Ed: How to Make College Affordable
• Paralyzed Rutgers football player LeGrand draws cheers during his commencement speech
• Fiscal Justice: UCSD’s “Che Café Collective” Broke and May Shut Down
• U. of Texas – Austin Restores Transparency in Funding of Student Organizations

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