Kyle Kashuv survived the Parkland school shooting massacre. He was later admitted to Harvard.
Monday morning, Kashuv tweeted that his acceptance had been rescinded over text messages he made when he was 16-years-old. Kashuv explained the comments were private and meant to be extreme.
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They’re not out of the woods yet. This issue will be revisited as they attempt to improve the school’s financial outlook.
Western Mass News reports:
Hampshire College to remain accredited at least through November
Hampshire College will remain a fully accredited school at least through November of this year.
The school said that the New...
We’ve seen so many campus hoaxes that begin with ‘discovered’ materials that it’s impossible not to be skeptical about this.
The Boston Globe reports:
Northeastern University student finds questionnaires with fascist references in library
Northeastern University officials will meet Monday with a student after he reported finding paper questionnaires inside a campus library book...
We have covered Oberlin College at least since 2013, when we wrote extensively about The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013.
Classes were cancelled in favor of campus-wide forums to address white supremacy and systemic r...
The progressive agenda is eventually going to launch an effort to promote LGBT issues in organized religion. Courses like this one are simply the lab.
The College Fix reports:
‘Queer Bible Hermeneutics’ course teaches students about ‘queerness...
The brave new world is here. There are cameras everywhere, and it’s not working out too well.
CBS 17 News reports:
Thousands of pictures of Duke University students captured for Chinese artificial intelligence research
Pictures of about 2,000 Duke University students are in a recently-deleted database whose users included Chinese military academies.
A Duke vice...
The federal government frowns on this sort of thing.
The Daily Caller reports:
Foreign Meddling: Department of Education Going After Elite Colleges for Allegedly Taking and Hiding Foreign Cash
The Department of Education is going after U.S universities over supposed ties to foreign governments, after some allegedly took huge quantities of foreign cash and...
The Gibson’s Bakery massive verdict against Oberlin College has sparked incredible reader excitement, and brought many new readers to Legal Insurrection.
I’ve spent the last week trying to absorb what is happening. The reactions to the compensatory and punitive damage verdicts remind me of only a few times in Legal Insurrection’s almost...
Another small school is falling. There’s more of this to come in the near future.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Marygrove Doesn’t Make It
Marygrove College will shut down at the end of the upcoming fall semester after the small Roman Catholic institution in Detroit was unable to escape from enrollment and financial pressures by...
This sounds like a recipe for disaster. Who is going to judge the quality of news and issue the fines?
Campus Reform reports:
EXCLUSIVE: Boston University prof suggests TAXING fake news
A Boston University professor is suggest...
Fang Zhou is an associate professor at Georgia Gwinnett College. He is also a legal immigrant from China and frequent critic of illegal immigration in the United States. His views on that subject, as well as political correctness, have triggered some people on the left.
Remember when the left insisted this sort of thing was only about Confederate statues? They lied.
The College Fix reports:
Pioneer statue called ‘monument to violent white supremacy,’ students, faculty demand its removal
In celebration of Oregon’s roots in pioneering, a statue of a pioneer, known simply as “The Pioneer,” was erected a century...
The Gibson Bakery vs. Oberlin College case just got more interesting.
I appeared tonight on Tucker Carlson Tonight to talk about the massive jury verdict against Oberlin College in the Gibson’s Bakery lawsuit.
I had talked about the case previously on Tucker’s show, on May 13, 2019, after the trial had started, but long before the verdict.
When are these schools going to start putting urinals in women’s rooms? Fair is fair, right?
The College Fix reports:
Another school putting tampons in men’s restrooms
Yet another school is moving to install tampons in men’s restrooms, a decision that comes after the university’s student government urged the school to do it.
The University...
After a jury awarded Gibson’s Bakery and its owners $11 million in compensatory damages, and $33 million in punitive damages (which likely will be reduced to $22 million under a state law capping damages at 2X compensatory damages), the college and its administrators are unapologetic and vowing to fight.
The President of...
Judging by the details offered here, it sounds like the course was a caricature of American conservatism.
Campus Reform reported:
Dartmouth offers ‘American Conservatism’ class…’tailored to a predominantly liberal audience’
Dartmouth College offered a course during its spring 2019 quarter on conservatism as examined through a liberal lens.
Titled “American Conservatism,” the course aimed to...
