by Blake Neff A professor at Ithaca College in New York says she no longer teaches about sexual assault during an otherwise-relevant course because too many students were triggered by it. Rebecca Plante is a professor in the school’s sociology department, and teaches a class titled Sociology of Sexualities. Sexual violence seems like it would…
by Josh Guckert Recently, U.S. Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA) proposed an unorthodox measure. The interesting part of the bill is how it would reward potential organ donors. As reported by Slate: The pilots would test how various rewards resonate. Rather than large sums of cash, potential rewards could include a contribution to the donor’s retirement fund,…
At Saddleback College in California a group of conservative students, the Young American’s For Freedom, were denied the right to stage a 9/11 memorial on campus grounds. Upon hearing of their memorial’s rejection they consoled themselves by settling on erecting posters across the campus this week as the 15th anniversary of the attack quickly approaches….
By Kody Fairfield The Communist forefather, and economics author, Karl Marx, who has been dead since 1883, still has appeal in United States higher education economic practices. It appears that Marx’s book The Communist Manifesto, written in 1848, is currently the most assigned economics book on US college campuses, according to a new syllabi database called the Open…
Blake Neff The University of Missouri (MU) is renaming its “Unisex” restrooms on campus in response to complaints that the current label isn’t inclusive. Henceforth, restrooms intended for use by both men and women will simply be labeled “toilet.” The change is apparently meant to accommodate student complaints that the “unisex” label, intended to encompass…
by Blake Neff Stanford University has totally banned liquor from undergraduate student parties, among a host of other new rules strictly regulating the presence of hard alcohol on campus. Liquor will be allowed at parties that are exclusively for graduate students, but it will have to be provided in the form of mixed drinks. “Straight…
By Blake Neff A simple chart created by the American Enterprise Institute demonstrates how incredible the cost of attending college has become. In the past 20 years, prices have inflated by 55 percent overall. But inflation hasn’t been evenly distributed. Prices of consumer goods, like cars, phones, clothes, and televisions, have remained stagnant or have even…
By Richard Pollock Reports of faulty corporate record keeping and links to the growing controversy over allegations of Clinton Foundation “pay-to-play” schemes could doom the pending initial public offering (IPO) of the for-profit Laureate Education university, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. Billionaire George Soros, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and private equity investor Henry Kravis…
Blake Neff A bias response team at Skidmore College in New York classified Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” as a “racialized attack” that violated school policy, according to a summary of “bias incidents” produced by the school. The report by Skidmore’s Bias Response Group (BRG), which was first reported by Campus Reform, covers 16…
A new study has uncovered a surprising correlation between having a college education and developing brain cancer. The study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health seems to have found a link between college education and brain cancer. Conducted in Sweden, the study observed more than 4.3 million people between 1911 & 1961. According to…