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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2013 25 Comments
The universities and colleges below are confirmed to reject the academic boycott of Israel passed by the American Studies Association. This list is based on positions expressed by the Presidents of such Universities or others in a position to state a university’s position (e.g., communications staff). We...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 2 Comments
Yes, Yes, Yes! Are You Ready for Terrifying Law School Tuition? Are Single Sex Schools the Wave of the Future? Dartmouth Student – Can the government shutdown teach us to live with less? Is Oberlin the college with the worst return on investment? War on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 34 Comments
We previously wrote about Anna Shireman-Grabowski, a Middlebury College student who, with non-student activists, removed a flag memorial on 9/11 this year remembering the victims of the World Trade Center attack, claiming solidarity with the Native American Abenaki tribe: My intention was not to cause...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2013 24 Comments
We ran this over at College Insurrection last week, but I think it’s worth running again an excerpt from Hen Mazzig, An Israeli Soldier to American Jews: Wake up! As a young Israeli who had just completed five years of service in the IDF, I...

Posted by Laurel Conrad on September 22, 2013 6 Comments
As Professor Jacobson details in his companion post, the Matthew Shepard narrative of anti-gay hatred culminating in murder may not be what it seems. Research detailed in The Book of Matt by Stephen Jimenez casts doubt on the anti-gay part of the narrative. But by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2013 21 Comments
On Friday we asked:  Which was worse: Middlebury 9/11 flag-grabbing or Oberlin racism hoax? It arose from the actions of Anna Shireman-Grabowski, a Middlebury student, who felt compelled to destroy a 9/11 memorial on campus by trashing thousands of small American flags, each one representing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2013 3 Comments
What we have here is a failure to understand. They don’t understand what they’re doing wrong: Only 16% of the 420K students in the CA State University system graduate within 4 years Catholic college hosts sex workshop featuring “c**t” coloring book DOE and DOJ threaten...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 08, 2013 13 Comments
In this installment of the Research 101 Series, I cover advanced search syntax. Sometimes in your research using standard search engines like Google and Bing, you’ll find that just typing in a bunch of keywords doesn’t quite deliver the results you’re looking for.  Search engines...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 09, 2013 15 Comments
Oberlin College cancelled classes based on a report that an individual was seen wearing a KKK-hood. It turned out that the mystery figure likely was a woman in a blanket. As we wait for further details as to who was behind hate-graffiti in the weeks prior to...
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