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“Sordid” and “Ugly” Scene Disrupts Showing Of Film About George Floyd at Central Connecticut State U.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 21, 2023 48 Comments

Students and at least one faculty member "stormed onto the stage, screaming that the film was 'racist' and holding signs proclaiming it 'hate speech'.”

Report: Kamala Harris Will Campaign in Urban Centers, Target Black Voters for Biden’s 2024 Campaign

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 20, 2023 29 Comments

"But I don’t know that the people who have to make that happen feel that way right now. I don’t know that she has what it takes to get over the hump in our present environment.”

Distinguished Law Faculty Call on ABA to Reconsider Resolution Defining Antisemitism It Pulled Under Activist Pressure

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 20, 2023 24 Comments

Law professors call the widely respected IHRA definition deleted by the ABA "an invaluable educational tool for understanding how Jews experience antisemitism today"

Gov. Ron DeSantis Outed as Primitive Pudding Eater in Stunning Display of #Journalism

Posted by Stacey Matthews on March 18, 2023 52 Comments

"During a private plane trip from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C., in March of 2019, DeSantis enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert—by eating it with three of his fingers, according to two sources familiar with the incident."

Stupidity at Stanford Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 18, 2023 4 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

Florida “Stop WOKE Act” Remains On Hold As Appeals Court Refuses To Lift Lower Court Injunction

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2023 6 Comments

DeSantis - as predicted - found a method likely more legally effective than addressing who can teach what - defunding departments and programs.

Prof. Charles Negy, Investigated and Fired After Tweets Disputing Systemic Racism, Files Federal Lawsuit Against U. Central Florida

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2023 29 Comments

Negy, who was reinstated after an arbitrator ruled in his favor, alleges constitutional and tort claims for harm Negy suffered "for nearly two years at the hands of UCF administrators who, because they disliked his political views, treated him as less than human."

Second Circuit to Hear First Comprehensive Post-Bruen Firearms Statute Challenge

Posted by James Nault on March 14, 2023 31 Comments

On March 20 the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will hear oral argument in cases challenging New York's unconstitutional response to the Supreme Court's Bruen case, which held that there is a constitutional right to keep AND BEAR arms

Firing Diversity Dean Over Judge Shout-Down May Help Stanford Law School Escape Consequences Of Its Toxic DEI Culture

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2023 64 Comments

Maybe it's better for the greater good of society to let Stanford Law School bear the consequences of its obsession with DEI, rather than removing a figurehead and pretenting that the problem is solved.

Leftist Gaslighting: Columnist Claims Media ‘Mostly Fawns Over’ Ron DeSantis

Posted by Stacey Matthews on March 12, 2023 53 Comments

"If your entire premise is 'the media fawning' all over him, you should probably cite more than just one example, which according to you is CNBC just quoting him."

Pushing Students to the Right Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 11, 2023 4 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

Notre Dame’s Speaker Series on Reproductive Justice Includes ‘Abortion Doula’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 06, 2023 8 Comments

One speaker has a tattoo of the manual vacuum aspiration. The speaker loves the procedure because "it's one and done. It's quick."

Hide the Ball: Columbia U Becomes First Ivy League School To Permanently Eliminate Required Standardized Admissions Testing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2023 24 Comments

As affirmative action likely comes to an end later this SCOTUS term, higher ed will not give up its obsession with racial preferences, it'll just eliminate the key type of evidence relied upon by the Asian students in the Harvard case: Standardized test scores.

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