This was crazy. If you’re not familiar, read the full back story here.
The Hartford Courant reports:
UConn students arrested in racial slur case sue university on First Amendment grounds
Two UConn students arrested last year for repeatedly shouting a racial slur outside an on-campus apartment building are suing the university, its president and...
The school renovated some classrooms to include large windows. Perhaps they need to buy some curtains as well.
The Day reports:
In Connecticut College’s glass classrooms, students and faculty feel ‘exposed,’ unsafe
Fanning Hall, an academic building at Connecticut College, recently has been renovated to include large sunny windows, workspaces and classrooms; however, some...
The column is apparently going to be anonymous and is not intended to be used as a ‘call-out’ tool.
The College Fix reports:
UConn student newspaper rolls out column for underrepresented and marginalized groups
The Daily Campus, the student newspaper at the University of Connecticut, has rolled out a new, anonymous column for minority...
Are we to believe there are racists at this school, or is this just another campus hoax?
This case is a perfect example of why an organization like FIRE is needed. Read the back story here.
Campus Reform reports:
Charges against UConn students arrested for ‘ridiculing’ language ‘must be dropped,’ legal org says
A student free speech legal advocacy organization has come to the support of two University of Connecticut students...
Two students from the University of Connecticut are currently under arrest because they used racial slurs. That may be tasteless and inappropriate, but at the end of the day, they’re just words.
These students were arrested for saying words.
The Connecticut Federation of College Republicans held a press conference on Thursday, during which they claimed conservative students are being singled out on Connecticut campuses over their political views.
This is absurd. The very concept of safe spaces is about having a place to retreat from words and ideas you don’t like.
Campus Reform reports:
Wesleyan pres defends ‘safe spaces’, claims they can ‘promote intellectual diversity’
A Connecticut university president is championing an effort to begin “destigmatizing” “safe spaces” on college campuses, claiming...
Back in February, I wrote about two transgender sprinters who placed first and second in the Girls Indoor Track Championship held in Connecticut. As I noted at the time, the same two transgender athletes had won the top spots the year before, as well.
Three of the girls who competed in the...
Lincoln College of New England closed last year and now the campus is up for sale. Developers must love opportunities like this because there’s already so much infrastructure on the property.
From the Associated Press via WTNH News:
Shuttered college campus in Connecticut to be auctioned
A Connecticut college campus that closed in December...
Calling this an investment is a soft way of admitting someone has to pay for it, namely the taxpayers of Connecticut.
The Middletown Press reports:
Connecticut’s debt-free college program called an investment
The debt-free community college program that is part of the new state budget being acted on Tuesday will cost up to $8.1...
Gary Gravelle of Connecticut was indicted last week for allegedly “threatening to kill, injure and intimidate people and explode property in Connecticut and elsewhere.”
Gravelle, “identified as a member of the white separate organization American Knights of Anarchy, or AKA,” reports the New Haven Register. In his powder-filled letter to Trump, Gravelle...
When the subject of Western Civilization is a triggering subject which must be protested, it’s time to shut it all down. This is insane.
The College Fix reports:
Protests, racial unrest engulf Trinity College over students’ pro-Western Civ Churchill Club
Racial unrest. Protests. Accusations. Name-calling. Threats.
The renown and historic Trinity College has become a...
It sounds like this professor needs a social media intervention. How embarrassing for the college.
The Hartford Courant reports:
Trinity College professor tweets ‘whiteness is terrorism,’ refers to B...
A University of Hartford student named Jake Wascher was acting out a scene from a movie when he allegedly stabbed two classmates. He fled the scene, but was arrested later and now faces criminal charges.
Fallout continues to happen after the exposure of a national college admissions scandal. On Monday, twelve defendants were arraigned in federal court in Boston.
Now Yale has rescinded the admission of a student allegedly admitted under fraudulent circumstances.
This is a perfect example of why we don’t need countless new bureaucrats in higher education. It gets harder and harder to track corruption.
Campus Reform reports:
CORRUPT: Ex-diversity officer smacked with massive FINE after giving husb...
