by Scott Lazarowitz. Has freedom of speech become a thing of the past in America? College campuses now are intellectual prisons, and the thin-skinned offendotrons are the guards. And in post-9/11 America you can’t criticize the Regime without being called a “traitor” or “unpatriotic.” The political and social fascists and control freaks ... MORE
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The Totalitarian Mind Set Of Hurt Feelings
by Scott Lazarowitz. Has freedom of speech become a thing of the past in America? College campuses now are intellectual prisons, and the thin-skinned offendotrons are the guards. And in post-9/11 America you can’t criticize the Regime without being called a “traitor” or “unpatriotic.” The political and social fascists and control freaks ... MOREExperts Urge Congress To Protect Free Speech On Campus
by Robert Davis Edelman. A panel of activists condemned college campus speech regulations Tuesday during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing. Led by Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the panel issued indictments of so-called ... MORE
John Stossel's Advice On College: Don't Go
It's graduation time! Have we learned much? No. College has become a scam. Some students benefit: those with full scholarships and/or rich parents so they don't go deep into debt, those who love learning for its own sake and land jobs in academia and those who get jobs that require a college credential. But that's not most students. Politicians such ... MORENick Gillespie: Finally, An Anonymous, Online, Geo-Tagged System To Report Dastardly Microaggressions At College!
Nitwittery run amok. I realize that simply by saying that you've probably heard of microaggressions, I'm likely committing one. For the uninitiated, microaggressions are
"are statements by a person from a privileged group that belittles or
isolates a member of an unprivileged group, as it relates to race,
class, gender, sexual orientation, ... MOREThe Death Of Free Speech On College Campus
by A. Barton Hinkle. One of the truly delightful things about college is that it allows earnest young people to try out all sorts of ridiculous ideas without causing much lasting harm. After graduation, most will grow up and learn how to laugh at their prior selves. (The rest will become professors.) Let’s hope the undergrads and grad students ... MORERobby Soave: Frat Brothers Make Execrable Racist Statements, America Forgets The First Amendment
Intolerance is all the rage at college campuses. Outrage over racist chanting at a Sigma Alpha Epsilon event at the University of Oklahoma is spilling over to other campuses, prompting concerns about systemic racism at that fraternal organization and within college Greek life as a whole. At the same time, lots of people who should know ... MORE
Suzy Lee Weiss: I Was Recruited By The Thought Police
Political correctness has reached the level of crazy. In the liberal ghetto of Ann Arbor, several University of Michigan administrators recently gathered for a passionate brainstorm. The head of student affairs declared he was simply “going to die” if he heard about one more so-called micro-aggression on campus. When a colleague told ... MOREWalter E. Williams: College Campus Update
Bryn Mawr will be better in sports. President Barack Obama wants Americans to dig deeper into our pockets to expand college education. Let's update college indoctrination done in the name of education. Cornell assistant professor Russell Rickford, in a lecture titled "Ferguson: The Next Steps," told a packed auditorium: "Let's be very clear about what's ... MORERobby Soave: Abolish the Federal Drinking Age
Stop incentives to drink recklessly. Activists, administrators, and national policymakers concerned about a supposed epidemic of rape on college campuses should stop trying so damn hard to regulate students' sex lives. Instead, their efforts would be better spent lobbying Congress to abolish a law that puts students at risk of sexual assault by ... MOREThe Average College Freshman Reads At 7th Grade Level
by Maggie Lit. Dumb down accomplished. The average U.S. college freshman reads at a seventh grade level, according to an educational assessment report. “We are spending billions of dollars trying to send students to college and maintain them there when, on average, they read at about the grade 6 or 7 level, according to Renaissance ... MOREThe Year The Crusade Against 'Rape Culture' Stumbled
by Cathy Young. December has not been a good month for the feminist crusade against the "rape culture." The Rolling Stone account of a horrific fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia, which many advocates saw as a possible "tipping point"—a shocking wake-up call demonstrating that even the most brutal sexual assaults on ... MOREWalter E Williams: Educational Fraud
Perpetuating the damage. It would be unreasonable to expect a student with the reading,
writing and computing abilities of an eighth-grader to do well in
college. If such a student were admitted, his retention would require
that the college create dumbed-downed or phantom courses. The University
of North Carolina made this ... MOREWalter E Williams: Scholar-Athlete Charade
A fraudulent education is not compensation. Last year's column "Dishonest Educators" (1/9/2013) reported on the largest school cheating scandal in U.S. history. In more than three-quarters of the 56 Atlanta schools investigated, teachers changed student answers on academic achievement tests. Cheating orders came directly from ... MOREThe Academic Mob Silences Free Speech, Again
A Washington Times editorial. Inconvenient truths not welcomed. Arithmetic continues to be a puzzle in certain precincts of academia. Scripps College,
an all-female school in Claremont, Calif., founded on the principle
that “the paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its
students the ability to think clearly and independently,” ... MORE
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