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Posted by Mike LaChance on May 17, 2014 7 Comments
Checking your privilege is all the rage on college campuses these days. Harvard’s Freshmen May Be Forced into ‘Check Your Privilege’ Training College Theater Production Features “White Privilege” Blame Game Funding for Cornell Student Groups Depends on ‘Diversity and Inclusion Plan’ Of course, if you...

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 12, 2014 2 Comments
Always look for the union label. Violence Breaks out during Grad Student Protests at UC Santa Cruz UCLA Student Reports from the Frontlines of Student-Workers Union Strike Don’t count on everyone to be on board though. Not All College Athletes Are for Unionization Northwestern Scholarship...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 05, 2014 4 Comments
As Americans are recovering from their New Year’s celebrations, it may be time to sober up with a look at some new laws that took effect January 1st. From the Washington Post, some of the more fascinating state rules now in place. …2. Colorado became...

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 August 03, 2013 5 Comments
That would be me. T-shirt idea:  “We engaged in institutional racism to fight white privilege, and all we got was more white privilege”: Elite colleges fail to enroll minority students T-shirt idea: “We threw money at the U.S. News rankings, and all we got were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2013 6 Comments
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Georgetown student advocates death for Republicans over student loan rates And where have you been my darling young one? Florida transgender student barred from women’s room after anonymous complaint UNC-Chapel Hill Students Jump To Defend Mixed-Sex Dorm...

Posted by Anne Segal on October 17, 2012 26 Comments
The U.S. Census, always seeking ways to go above and beyond its constitutional role of counting the number of people in the United States, may be planning to ask questions regarding sexual orientation in the 2020 Census community survey. A national advisory committee has been...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2012 0 Comments
In case you missed them, there were a lot of posts about the (lack of intellectual) diversity on college campuses: Is the “Ron Paul Revolution” Too Dangerous for Auburn? UC Berkeley liberal student groups afraid to meet with conservatives/libertarians Diversity at Vassar Doesn’t Include Conservatives...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2012 21 Comments
Via Scott Whitlock at Newsbusters: Over eight hours of broadcast time, Thursday, the network morning shows devoted a scant two minutes and 57 seconds to Wednesday’s shooting at the conservative Family Research Council (FRC). Good Morning America on ABC offered the most time, a still...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2012 69 Comments
Not a JDate ad, a new “minority classification” at the City University of New York, and some who prefer to stick with preexisting minority classifications are not happy: Touting a move to make its faculty more diverse, CUNY administrators have  broken out Jews into a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 42 Comments
Tolerance.  The concept could be a bumper sticker. But if so, it would not be welcome on the campus of Northeastern University, which just banned Chick-fil-A from campus. From The Boston Glove via TaxProf (h/t Instapundit): Northeastern University said yesterday that a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2011 25 Comments
About one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese. So why is this a problem for Chris Christie?  Because he is not in a liberally protected class: “Liberals, who embrace diversity of all other kinds — who demand quotas for transgender kindergarten teachers in public schools...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2011 13 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Some guy apparently was permitted by US Airways to board a plane wearing almost only women’s underwear (image here, put down uncovered drinks before viewing). I’m not sure...
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