November 11, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Students press corps regulars range over topics from the Middle East to OWS, smoking on campus and the dismal state of American science education.

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November 11, 2011

FIRE Issues Statement on Campus Political Activity

Glenn Ricketts

Check out this statement on campus political activity from our friends at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. As the 2012 election year approaches, it'll be helpful to know the ac......

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November 10, 2011

STEM and Western Civilization

William H. Young

Education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics is indeed lagging badly. William Young argues that a misguided preoccupation with "gender parity" in the sciences can only obstruct the......

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November 9, 2011

Academic Liberal Bias: Not All Bad?

Glenn Ricketts

If you're sure of your traditionalist convictions, you've got to read a lot more carefully and thoroughly, and you'll have them subject to far greater intellectual challenge than your li......

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November 9, 2011

Video: Trevor Gast on Student Loan Debt Forgiveness

A student loan expert weighs in on loan forgiveness: "it's really putting a band-aid on a much bigger problem."

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November 9, 2011

What? We Were Supposed to Use Dictionaries? - No Comment

Glenn Ricketts

Sometimes small things can shed light on larger problems - consider this case, for example.

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November 9, 2011

Politically Correct Solutions Won’t Solve the Political Correctness Problem

Ashley Thorne

In the quest for preserving intellectual diversity the method counts as much as the message. Ashley Thorne responds to Ted Gup's proposed means to protect conservative thought on liberal campuses.

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November 9, 2011

What If There Were Prison Loan Debts?

Kate Hamilton

The average cost for one year of prison is more expensive than one year at Princeton University.  

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November 8, 2011

Sentenced

Peter Wood

Peter Wood weighs Stanley Fish’s new book on how to teach college rhetoric.

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November 7, 2011

Anti-Bullying Regulations in DC Promise Ubiquitous Micromanagement

Glenn Ricketts

There may well be a threshold at which verbal abuse constitutes legitimately punishable harassment, but the bill currently under consideration by the DC Council goes way, WAY, beyond those limits: "......

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