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Kenyon College withdrawing from American Studies Assoc over Israel boycott (Update – Indiana too)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2013 6 Comments

The List of Universities rejecting academic boycott of Israel is growing rapidly. These two announcements are significant because they involve withdrawals of Institutional Membership, not just condemnation. This makes four universities (Penn State Harrisburg, Brandeis, Kenyon, Indiana) who are withdrawing membership, plus several others (Willamette, Hamilton,...

Donate to Legal Insurrection Building Fund, Part 2

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 27, 2013 34 Comments

In case you missed it over the long Thanksgiving weekend, this is our semi-annual fund drive. Please consider a donation or subscription. Also, given that this is CYBER MONDAY, consider using the Amazon.com links in the sidebar since a small portion of your purchase goes...

Kenyon College students dress up as ghosts, you can guess the rest of this story

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2013 39 Comments

Reader 9thDistrictNeighbor and her husband are Kenyon College graduates. She sent me a link to a story from November 21 about two Kenyon students who dressed as ghosts, were confronted by campus security, accused of racism, and ultimately apologized for being insensitive to their white...

Middlebury College suspends student in 9/11 flag grabbing

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...

Legal Insurrection is 5 years old

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2013 43 Comments

You know the story why this blog was started on October 12, 2008 at 5:42 p.m. Here’s what the blog looked like on November 15, 2008 and for the first 2 1/2 years while we were on Google Blogger (Yikes! It’s like looking at your junior high school photo): Hey, look...

College “confession” forums replace open dialogue in a world of speech codes

Posted by Laurel Conrad on September 29, 2013 33 Comments

Political correctness is driving campus problems underground without solving anything.

Dear Hamilton College Bd. of Trustees, maybe your Diversity Industry is making race relations worse

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2013 15 Comments

Saturday Night Card Game

Hamilton College desegregated Diversity Town Hall exposes racial tensions

Posted by 0387erp on September 27, 2013 33 Comments

Student reports: Not much accomplished, but people had a chance to get things off their chests

Hamilton College student: Why I stood up against segregated diversity program

Posted by 0387erp on September 25, 2013 22 Comments

Hamilton's Director of Diversity & Inclusion initially rejected my objection as “in the minority”

Hamilton College cancels racially-segregated diversity program

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2013 30 Comments

Hamilton cancels the program but still denies it has a problem: "My intent was to be inclusive but my phrasing suggested otherwise."

Hamilton College segregates diversity program by race

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2013 35 Comments

"this program is open to people of color only." (UPDATE - program canceled after this reporting.)

Oberlin College blames the blogosphere

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2013 18 Comments

No apologies from this corner of "the blogosphere" for seeking the truth.

Police release more records as to Oberlin College racism hoax

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2013 11 Comments

Updated post: Oberlin College blames the blogosphere —————————- The Oberlin College racism hoax of 2013 involved, among other things, a liberal pro-Obama “anti-racist” student activist who decided to “troll” the campus to get a reaction by posting racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and homophobic signs and messages....

The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2013 43 Comments

A massive racism hoax took place at Oberlin College in February 2013 in which two students made seemingly racist, anti-Semitic and other such posters, graffiti and emails for the purpose of getting a reaction on campus, not because they believed the hostile messages. At least one of the...

Zimmerman Trial Day 7 Wrap Up: Prosecution recovers a little, prepared to introduce college records

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 02, 2013 320 Comments

We covered the morning’s events with our mid-day update, available here at the link below. If you’ve already viewed it, be aware that I have just now added to that post the video recordings of the morning testimony, so if you are interested in seeing...

Seven years of college and all they know is targeting “patriots” and those educating about the Constitution and Bill of Rights

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2013 23 Comments

There is so much wrong with the IRS scandal at so many levels, it’s almost hard to know where to start. It goes way beyond abuse of power, although it certainly is that. It is, as Newt said this morning on Morning Joe, “culturally sick”...

Legal Insurrection Building Fund campaign

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2013 19 Comments

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