College Insurrection Tag

Students at Johns Hopkins Chain Themselves to Stairwell to Protest Police and ICE

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 05, 2019 8 Comments

"will remain in Garland through final exams and the summer months, if need be"...

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Student Govt at UC-Davis Votes Narrowly to Keep Campus Police Armed

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 04, 2019 3 Comments

"The issue of police has been a contentious one in the UC-Davis community during this past spring semester."...

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Shocking Poll Finds Young People Support the Idea of Free College

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 04, 2019 4 Comments

"students polled more than 3,000 people ages 18 to 29"...

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Obama DHS Secretary Withdraws as Speaker at USC Law School After Protests

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 04, 2019 0 Comments

"he believes that graduations should be free of tension and political controversy and for this reason has decided not to speak"...

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Free Speech for Some Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 04, 2019 0 Comments

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Students at Trinity College Protest Pro-Western Civilization ‘Churchill Club’

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 03, 2019 2 Comments

"complaints from students of color and their supporters declare the Churchill Club’s existence on campus marginalizes them"...

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Left Wing Groups Pressuring Colleges to Blacklist Members of Trump Admin

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 03, 2019 2 Comments

"Disgraced former officials should not be offered cushy fellowships"...

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College Student in West Virginia Arrested for Allegedly Threatening Shooting Spree

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 03, 2019 0 Comments

"Don't worry dawg, I'll likely be dead before I go on a shooting spree," the suspect allegedly wrote....

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Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College trial motions – What’s a reputation worth, and how do you prove it?

Posted by Daniel McGraw on May 02, 2019 15 Comments

With the first week of Legal Insurrection's coverage of the famed “liberal arts humanitarianism and defamation lawsuit” trial ending, word now is that jury selection has been pushed back even further. Given that Lorain County court Judge John R. Miraldi also handles drug courts on Monday and Tuesday mornings, and given that Judge Miraldi has a few more evidentiary rulings to ponder, jury selection will now begin on Wednesday morning, May 8.

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Hampshire College Cutting Over 80 Positions

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 02, 2019 2 Comments

“We asked every division of the College to reduce its budget. We have to reduce our workforce"...

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DePaul University Faculty Condemns Professor Who Expressed Support for Israel

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 02, 2019 17 Comments

The Faculty Council at DePaul University passed a resolution condemning professor of philosophy Jason Hill after he wrote an article in The Federalist in support of Israel and condemned Hamas. Hill wrote that "Israel has the moral right to annex all of the West Bank (even Area C) for a plethora of reasons." The article offended Muslim students and some faculty, which caused protests and a demand for censure.

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Prof Asks if Students Should Still Learn About ‘Dead White Man’ Henry David Thoreau

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 02, 2019 2 Comments

“The Whiteness of Walden: Reading Thoreau with Attention to Race”...

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Colorado State Asks Students Not to Run Around Campus in Their Underwear

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 02, 2019 4 Comments

"we have significant and real concerns about it"...

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Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College trial motions: Bakery to prove “the college poured gasoline on the fire”

Posted by Daniel McGraw on May 01, 2019 36 Comments

As the Gibson’s Bros v. Oberlin case gets set for the trial – now set to begin on Friday, May 3 – it is beginning to become more clear that this case of defamation accusations is set to be more of an early 21^st century cultural dissertation than one of merely determining monetary damages.

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Pro-Life Speaker’s Event Disrupted by Smoke Bomb at UT-Austin

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 01, 2019 2 Comments

"The event was going normally and then we heard the fire alarm and evacuated"...

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San Jose City College Disinvites Border Patrol From Campus Job Fair

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 01, 2019 1 Comment

"initial complaint about CBP came from an unnamed student who called the president’s office"...

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Oklahoma Governor Signs Bill Banning ‘Free Speech Zones’ From Public Campuses

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 01, 2019 2 Comments

"Any person who wishes to engage in noncommercial expressive activity on campus shall be permitted to do so freely"...

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Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College trial motions – Judge finds Gibson’s “reputation is central to this case”

Posted by Daniel McGraw on April 30, 2019 16 Comments

I attended court today as the lawyers argued pre-trial motions. As most trial lawyers know, pre-trial “in limine” motions can often decide the case. What the judge excludes and what they allow, how to define certain terminology the jury will hear, and rulings what is important and what is nonsense.

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