College Insurrection Tag

Student Sit-in at Reed College Shuts Down Finance Office

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 03, 2017 3 Comments

"prompted officials to quickly relocate sensitive financial documents"...

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UNC-Asheville Students Want Campus Police to be Disarmed

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 03, 2017 6 Comments

"reinvest weapons money into health and counseling"...

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Vassar activists: Free Speech rights invalid “in our white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist society”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 02, 2017 36 Comments

Healing to Action is the Vassar College student group which organized the incitement against me by making false claims that the campus was in danger by my lecture on "hate speech" and free speech. The fabricated claims included that I was posting event information on multiple White Nationalist websites in order to bring people to campus to target minorities, LGBT and Jewish students. The details of those false claims are documented in these posts:

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UCLA Drops Excessive Security Fees for Ben Shapiro Speech After Complaints

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 02, 2017 1 Comment

"UCLA has decided to also pay the basic security costs for this event"...

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Brandeis Cancels Play Critical of Black Lives Matter Movement

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 02, 2017 0 Comments

“the already privileged voice of a white man"...

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Dartmouth Profs Under Investigation for Sexual Misconduct

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 02, 2017 0 Comments

"no official findings yet produced"...

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Feminist Profs Publishing Anthology of ‘Queer Feminist Science’

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 01, 2017 4 Comments

“queer feminist concerns have led us straight to science"...

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Harvard Athletics Requires Students to Attend Sex Assault and Gender Programs

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 01, 2017 1 Comment

“mandatory sexual assault prevention"...

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Report Claims Free College Would Benefit Wealthy More Than Poor

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 01, 2017 2 Comments

"sounds like a great idea, when you first hear the words"...

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Vassar hysteria over my free speech lecture was “like walking into an alternate reality”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2017 16 Comments

On Tuesday night, October 31, 2017, I appeared on the Lars Larson radio show to talk about my experience at Vassar College. See these posts for the details:

• Safe Spaces and Safety Teams at Vassar College for My Lecture on Free Speech
• Actual Malice at Vassar College

Here are some of my comments during the interview:

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U. Michigan Offers Free Room and Board to Students Willing to Promote Social Justice

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 31, 2017 3 Comments

"Students will also promote the school’s Inclusive Language Campaign"...

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Black Student Activists at Columbia Want College Republicans Defunded

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 31, 2017 8 Comments

"They ‘oppose our humanity’"...

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Student Group at Georgetown Targeted for Upholding Catholic Doctrine

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 31, 2017 2 Comments

"marriage is between a man and a woman"...

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Fewer old-time pro-free speech liberals left on campuses

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2017 13 Comments

I appeared on Monday evening, October 30, 2017, on the Mark Levin Show to talk about my recent experiences at Vassar College, as previously documented in these posts:

• Safe Spaces and Safety Teams at Vassar College for My Lecture on Free Speech
• Actual Malice at Vassar College

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UCLA College Republicans Protest Ridiculous Security Fees for Ben Shapiro Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 30, 2017 5 Comments

“These fees appear to be another attempt by the administration to limit free speech"...

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Socialist Group at Kent State Says Conservative Student Belongs in Gulag

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 30, 2017 8 Comments

“there's one place you might be going…”...

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College of the Ozarks Launches Course Requirement in Patriotism

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 30, 2017 4 Comments

"Patriotic Education and Fitness"...

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Silence in the face of campus extremism is a vice

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2017 35 Comments

Reed College Assistant Professor of English and humanities Lucía Martínez Valdivia writes in The Washington Post of the extremism from the "social justice" movement on campuses, and how too many faculty just stay silent., Professors like me can’t stay silent about this extremist moment on campuses. Her story begins with the history of a months-long continuous disruption of classes objecting to the required first-year humanities course, among other reasons because it included the teaching of Aristotle and Plato:

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