Tag: Colleges and Universities

These organic movements need to be encouraged, not made mandatory by Republican legislators. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Conservatives are passing laws requiring public universities to protect free speech. It’s probably a bad idea

Nick Phillips · February 1, 2018 5:01 am

Student leaders at the University of South Florida recently passed a resolution declaring the Student Senate in opposition to Israel. (USF Student Senate slide)

Student government passes anti-Israel resolution, only Jewish senator quits after anti-Semitic threats

alexandra-hollenbeck · February 1, 2018 2:27 am

"What happened at UC Berkeley was not just an act of cowardice and appeasement to the leftwing political vanguard, but a direct assault on the constitutional rights of peace-loving people to attend events at a taxpayer funded, state campus," said Bill Becker, president, founder and chief counsel of Freedom X said. (Freedom X)

Red Alert Politics

Victim of Antifa: ‘UC Berkeley has failed to acknowledge’ injured people

Peter Van Voorhis · January 31, 2018 9:49 pm

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has identified at least two policies at Virginia Tech that are open-ended and leave room for unconstitutional interpretation. (Facebook)

Code Yellow: Ambiguous speech codes at Virginia Tech hold spontaneous speech hostage

Richard Abel · January 31, 2018 5:01 am

The University of Notre Dame competed under the nickname the "Catholics" during the 1800s and became more widely known as the "Ramblers" during the early 1920s. But, in 1927, the school officially adopted the "Fighting Irish" as its nickname and, later, the leprechaun mascot. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Beltway Confidential

Max Kellerman, stop hating on the Leprechaun

David Freddoso · January 31, 2018 12:03 am

Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Let’s Hope the Eagles-Patriots Super Bowl Doesn’t Go to Overtime, Too

Gregg Easterbrook · January 30, 2018 3:30 pm

University of California, Berkeley, student Naweed Tahmas said he believes the school's student paper won't publish conservative opinion pieces due to political bias. (screenshot)

Red Alert Politics

UC Berkeley student paper refuses to publish conservative op-ed on DACA

Lauren Cooley · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

Comparisons between President Trump and former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler have sparked ire on the Right and some calls for censorship, values that fly in the face of a political wing that has decried "political correctness run amok." (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Red Alert Politics

Fighting the urge to join the campus speech police

Sydney Persing · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

Professor Emanuele Saccarelli's message in a syllabus for a class on Marxism said, grading "marks the alienation of your intellectual labor, the consummation of the authority of experts set above and in many cases against you, and the reduction of your multisided individuality into a single, convenient short-hand, branding you as more or less suited for the satisfaction of the needs of capital." (Screenshot: OSDEDU, via YouTube)

Red Alert Politics

Professor: ‘Grading is a quintessentially bourgeois practice’

Peter Van Voorhis · January 29, 2018 9:59 pm

University of Chicago students are protesting the upcoming visit of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Red Alert Politics

University of Chicago students, faculty protest potential campus visit from ‘white supremacist’ Steve Bannon

Mitchell Gunter · January 29, 2018 8:06 pm

None of the students disputed the interviewer when he asked them to react to President Trump telling Democrats the wall would be 10 feet taller than before, and started a chant to "build the wall." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Watch: NYU students think Trump’s State of the Union already happened, and they hated it

Anna Giaritelli · January 29, 2018 5:52 pm

Larry Nassar, the former sports doctor who admitted to molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts for years, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina told Nassar, "I just signed your death warrant." (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)

Beltway Confidential

The bravest women this week were gymnasts in a Michigan courtroom

Nicole Russell · January 26, 2018 11:07 pm