The student protesters were demanding a tuition freeze. Wait until they find out how expensive free college would be.
The Gazette reports:
Student protesters shut down Iowa Board of Regents meeting
Students from across Iowa’s three public universities on Wednesday shut down a Board of Regents by interrupting its afternoon session with loud chants,...
How generous of these students. Taxpayers in Illinois must be thrilled with this idea.
Campus Reform reports:
UI students want to make it even easier for illegal students to get state funds
Members of the University of Illinois student government are calling on their peers and the university...
The Ragin’ Cajun is back and he’s not happy about the direction his party has taken. Bill Clinton adviser James Carville has been making the media rounds this week and sounding an alarm about the Democratic candidates for 2020 and the message they’re sending to voters.
What a unifying message. By the way, this didn’t happen at one school. This is a traveling workshop.
The College Fix reports:
At ‘Undoing Racism’ workshop, participants told ‘all white people are racist’
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond’s “Undoing Racism” workshop, hosted on various college campuses and other community locations across the...
Contagious diseases often present special challenges for colleges and universities. This one is no exception.
Compare and contrast.
Meanwhile, another strange...
Elizabeth Warren’s campaign is struggling. Not only did she finish third in Iowa, she just lost several campaign employees in Nevada, all women of color, who made some harsh allegations about their treatment.
Members of Students for Trump were tabling on the campus of Arizona State University, when a young man came along and began screaming about wanting to slash all Republicans’ throats.
Seriously, when you watch this you have to wonder if this guy needs to be medicated.
Strong language warning:
glad to see people at...
Our very own Professor Jacobson is quoted in this story.
FOX News reports:
Student group: Cornell’s coronavirus concerns stem from ‘xenophobic perceptions of Asian people’
A Cornell University student group declared on Tuesday that the school is “buying into Sinophobic rhetoric” and “racist fear mongering” because it sent a mass email about the coronavirus.
The...
Nothing to see here. This is perfectly normal behavior in an institution of higher learning, right?
The College Fix reports:
University scrubs online art show after pic depicting Trump be...
I could not agree more.
Professor Turley writes at The Hill:
Nancy Pelosi should resign
The House has its share of infamies, great and small, real and symbolic, and has been the scene of personal infamies from brawls to canings. But the conduct of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the State of the Union...
Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) was already facing reelection challenges for next fall, but things just got a lot harder for him. As a Democrat, Jones lucked into this job in Trump country. He might not have it for much longer.
Just last week, a high ranking chemistry professor at Harvard was charged for this. What is going on?
Campus Reform reports:
Another medical research prof with secret ties to China
Yet another university medical research professor has been charged for alleged ties to Chinese efforts to steal American research.
Just a week after Harvard University...
The BDS movement is still alive and well at Berkeley.
The College Fix reports:
Student activists chanting ‘Free Palestine’ shut down UC-Berkeley student government meeting
A mob of student activists chanting “free Palestine” disrupted a student government committee meeting Monday at the University of California-Berkeley, as the body was scheduled to vote on a...
The last two days have been saturated with media reports about the disaster of the Democrat caucus in Iowa and for good reasons. You probably have not heard much about the Iowa Republican caucus, but there was a significant development there.
Are students incapable of accessing condoms on their own, if needed?
The Salt Lake Tribune reports:
The University of Utah created ‘Pleasure Packs’ to discreetly mail condoms to...
The left’s agenda continues to eclipse the pursuit of actual scholarship.
Campus Reform reports:
Students earn credit for ‘organizing’ for ‘social justice’
The application for a new “grassroots community organizing” course at...
This program director is obviously acting as an advocate for her field, but does the school need this major?
The College Fix reports:
Syracuse LGBT studies program director: Give us more faculty, make program a major
The director of Syracuse University’s LGBT studies program wants the program to become a major course of study,...
