Ace notes that even some liberal professors on campus are becoming alarmed (although for the wrong reasons) about the closed, doctrinaire, power-driven, anti-free-speech tactics of the social justice [sic] warriors on campus. He quotes a liberal professor named Edward Schlosser … Continue reading →
There’s been quite a bit of brouhaha about this course: Visual arts students at the University of California, San Diego, must exhibit themselves in the buff before a naked class of 20 and a nude professor or fail an upper-level … Continue reading →
An excellent move: Nicole Eramo is seeking more than $7.5 million in damages from Rolling Stone; its parent company, Wenner Media; and Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the investigative journalist who wrote the explosive account of sexual assault on the campus in … Continue reading →
Perhaps you’ve noticed that the topic of free speech has been coming up again and again and again lately. The battle to protect it has taken on new urgency, in part because too many people appear to have forgotten what … Continue reading →
This is good news [emphasis mine]: Paul Nungesser, the Columbia University student accused of raping fellow student Emma Sulkowicz, is now suing the university for doing nothing to stop Sulkowicz’s harassment campaign against him, which he claims “effectively destroyed” his … Continue reading →
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 →