Nineteen Eighty-Four Week at College Insurrection
A new report from the dystopian world of higher education....
A new report from the dystopian world of higher education....
Another dispatch from the world of higher education....
Your weekly foray into the strange world of higher education....
The professor physically assaulted the girl, stole her sign and then called her a terrorist as she walked away. ...
Another report full of news and politics from the world of higher education....
Your weekly dispatch from the world of higher education....
Your weekly report from the world of higher education....
Another dispatch from the wacky world of higher education....
It was another crazy week of news and politics in higher education....
Another week of reports from the world of higher education....
Another report from the crazy world of higher education....
It was another week of mayhem in higher education....
Another week of political correctness and antics on college campuses....
If nothing else, the Class of 2014 will be remembered for commencement season. “Thanks for Not Disinviting Me” Condoleezza Rice Defended by… The New York Times? Smith College Economics Profs Decry Campus Activists for IMF Director’s Commencement Cancellation Former Princeton President Blasts College Students for Speaker Controversy Harvard joins list...
Pro-Israel student leader at Vassar was warned: "Remember the devil has enough advocates"...
Colleges across the country this spring have been wrestling with student requests for what are known as “trigger warnings,” explicit alerts that the material they are about to read or see in a classroom might upset them or, as some students assert, cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of rape or in war veterans. The warnings, which have their ideological roots in feminist thought, have gained the most traction at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where the student government formally called for them. But there have been similar requests from students at Oberlin College, Rutgers University,the University of Michigan, George Washington University and other schools. The debate has left many academics fuming, saying that professors should be trusted to use common sense and that being provocative is part of their mandate. Trigger warnings, they say, suggest a certain fragility of mind that higher learning is meant to challenge, not embrace. The warnings have been widely debated in intellectual circles and largely criticized in opinion magazines, newspaper editorials and academic email lists. “Any kind of blanket trigger policy is inimical to academic freedom,” said Lisa Hajjar, a sociology professor at the university here, who often uses graphic depictions of torture in her courses about war. “Any student can request some sort of individual accommodation, but to say we need some kind of one-size-fits-all approach is totally wrong. The presumption there is that students should not be forced to deal with something that makes them uncomfortable is absurd or even dangerous.”Of course, how the trigger is defined says much about the theory behind the movement -- it almost always serves left-wing critical race and gender theories, as at Oberlin, as the Times further reports:
Dear Harvard Satanists: Go to Hell. I Hear You’re a Fan of the Management:
Checking your privilege is all the rage on college campuses these days. Harvard’s Freshmen May Be Forced into ‘Check Your Privilege’ Training College Theater Production Features “White Privilege” Blame Game Funding for Cornell Student Groups Depends on ‘Diversity and Inclusion Plan’ Of course, if you don't want to check...
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