Forced Quotas Week at College Insurrection

MIKE LACHANCE JUN 28, 2014 8:00 AM

Title IX started out as a great idea but along the way devolved into a system of proportional representation or in other words, quotas. Sports programs for men are feeling the most pain.

• Video: How Title IX Hurts College Sports

At least there’s still a way to make money through college sports.

• Beer Bowl: More colleges in search of revenue turn to alcohol sales at sports games

Speaking of money, some colleges just don’t need it.

• Brooklyn College Rejects $10 Million Grant from the Koch Brothers
• Business Prof Criticizes Brooklyn College for Passing up Millions from Koch Foundation

And some colleges make up for their losses in other ways.

• University Paying Hillary Clinton $225K for Speech Also Raising Tuition 17%
• U. South Carolina Increases Tuition To Pay for Employees’ Obamacare
• Leftists Want to Soak Taxpayers to Make College ‘Free’

Some professors have money to burn.

• Physics Prof Offers $10K to Anyone Who Disproves Man-Made Global Warming

This week’s history lecture is brought to you by Prager University.

• Prager University Video: The Truth about the Vietnam War

Rape Culture update:

• Sexual Assault Education at UCLA Found Insufficient by State Audit
• Critics of George Will’s Column on Rape and Higher Ed Misrepresent his Arguments
• National Association of Scholars Examines the Real Data on Sexual Assault

Welcome to college. Would you like a drone or a puppy?

• University of South Florida to Start Lending Drones to Students
• Some Colleges Now Offering Students Loaner Puppies

Perhaps we need longer study periods.

• Florida Atlantic University May Lose Millions in Funding Over Poor Academic Performance
• Only 37 Percent of New York High School Grads Are Ready For College
• South Carolina State Suffers Accreditation Downgrade

There was some good news on campus last week.

• University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Pulls Out of White Privilege Conference
• Supreme Court Affirms Community College Employee’s Free Speech Rights
• 72 years after WWII internment forced him to miss graduation, California man gets diploma

And there was some truly stupid news on campus last week.

• American Student Gets Stuck in Giant Stone Vagina in Germany
• Columbia Student Accused of Faking Injuries After Dorm Ceiling Fell on her Head
• Vanderbilt University Includes ‘Occupy Wall Street’ in Tribute to Freedom Exhibit
• Spelling Error Found on Diplomas for Northwestern University’s Journalism School

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