The University of Michigan will go bravely forward and show the movie “American Sniper” after all: “The initial decision to cancel the movie was not consistent with the high value the University of Michigan places on freedom of expression and … Continue reading →
This headline caught my eye: “Univ. of Michigan Cancels ‘American Sniper’ Screening, Made Students ‘Feel Unsafe’.” At first I thought it was some sort of objection to a film about a sniper and war, although I’m pretty sure other films … Continue reading →
Ace points out that in the OU SAE case, even the ACLU (boy, that’s a lot of acronyms in one sentence) has been extremely reluctant to admit that the university acted unconstitutionally in expelling the two student ringleaders of the … Continue reading →
Commenter “janetoo” describes a time when she visited her daughter’s college and attended a dance performance that included one selection featuring three Asian woman. In a conversation with her daughter and her daughter’s friends afterwards, janetoo was asked which dance … Continue reading →
Remember Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz, who said she’d been raped, the university administration had dealt with it wrongly by exonerating the accused, and that therefore she was going to carry a mattress around on her back as an art project … Continue reading →
…are the brothers of Phi Kappa Psi, and truth. However, the members of Phi Psi are mouthing the PC message that they don’t consider themselves victims: Scipione and Fontenot said that the Phi Psi brothers experienced a difficult fall semester … Continue reading →
Commenter “Lizzy” writes: I’m thinking it’s no coincidence that women have recently expanded their definition of sexual assault and out-of-bounds male behavior to include things like morning after regret, the unwelcome male gaze, and “slut-shaming.” So women still expect expressions … Continue reading →
This article appeared at HuffPo in 2008. It was written by Jackie Fuchs, a woman who went to law school with Obama, and is one of those pieces that are enriched by hindsight. The following excerpt from the portrait of … Continue reading →
This Slate article makes the point that there’s a lot we don’t know, and need to know, about Erdely’s article and the “research” behind it, as well as the decisions made by editors at the publication Rolling Stone. Another issue … Continue reading →
If there is no objective reality in our brave new post-modernist world, then rape is whatever women say it is. At least, that’s the current PC line. If a woman has sex with a man and regrets it, that’s rape. … Continue reading →
…and mistakenly declares that “all lives matter.” Then she apologizes for her grievous error: “I regret that I was unaware the phrase/hashtag ‘all lives matter’ has been used by some to draw attention away from the focus on institutional violence … Continue reading →
It is the utter lack of critical thinking displayed by articles such as this one by Julia Horowitz, assistant managing editor of the UVA student newspaper.
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