College Insurrection Tag

U. Minnesota Backs Off Plan to Punish People for Not Using Preferred Pronouns

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 23, 2019 3 Comments

“We got a lot of feedback that the purpose of this policy should be to educate and to inspire our community"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg1rZJwPRPs

War on Conservatives Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 23, 2019 0 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

Conservative Trump-Supporting Student Physically Attacked at UC Berkeley

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 22, 2019 27 Comments

Hayden Williams, a student at UC Berkeley, was helping the conservative group Turning Point USA when he was attacked and punched in the face in broad daylight. It was all captured on camera. Will the media give this story one percent of the attention they devoted to Jussie Smollett?

Dartmouth Offers Free Ski Trip for Students of Color Only

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 22, 2019 7 Comments

“This just shows that identity politics has gotten to the point where even something as innocuous as skiing is an issue of race and oppression"...

Faculty at Hampshire College Attempted to Vote No Confidence in President and Board

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 22, 2019 4 Comments

"meant to repudiate the college leaders’ recent decisions on how to deal with the Massachusetts institution’s longstanding and worsening financial problems"...

Campus Carry Bill Protested at West Virginia University

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 22, 2019 0 Comments

"concerns from students and other speakers about campus safety"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndm1rxeBzsA&t=6s

Germany: Students at Cologne University Reject ‘Anti-Semitic’ BDS Movement

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on February 22, 2019 4 Comments

The student parliament at Germany's Cologne University passed a resolution banning activities by the anti-Israel Boycott movement, or BDS, from the campus. The organizations and activists linked to BDS "should not be offered a platform at the University of Cologne," the student representative body said in declaration passed in October 2018.

UC Santa Cruz Student Indicted for Allegedly Creating App to Sell Drugs

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 21, 2019 1 Comment

"meth, cocaine and other illegal drugs"...

Prof Accused of Vandalizing Nevada Republican Lawmaker’s Campaign Signs

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 21, 2019 4 Comments

"Let me be clear, I have never destroyed any property."...

U. Buffalo-SUNY to Host Symposium on ‘Whiteness of American Architecture’

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 21, 2019 6 Comments

“racial discourses of western architectural history from the Enlightenment to the present”...

Anti-Israel BDS boycott campaign returns to Cornell

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2019 11 Comments

A coalition of student groups led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is renewing a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) effort at Cornell University, where I teach.