On the Campus
Complaints that the State of Rhode Island has allocated more money for the Department of Corrections than for higher education miss the point. Put aside the fact that the comparison is arbitrary; the real concern should be the underlying policies that wind up making imprisoning people such a large expense. That would be a pretty…
Is this astonishing video of a protest turned near riot related to a wrongfully imprisoned innocent, wanton murder of grandmothers, or government confiscation of children? Nope. It’s over a proposed 32% tuition increase for the University of California system. It’s a symptom of the inevitable collapse of a society built on an entitlement mindset. Don’t…
As Americans accede to the concerted push to break down our mores and cultural definitions, we shouldn’t be surprised if there’s an increase in this sort of double-take news items: Two men and a woman, ages 18, 19 and 20, have been indicted for allegedly raping a fellow University of Rhode Island student on campus…
An Ivy-leaguer from Brown goes undercover at “christianist” Liberty University and learns that, hey, Christians are people too! [Kevin Roose] arrived at the Lynchburg campus prepared for “hostile ideologues who spent all their time plotting abortion clinic protests and sewing Hillary Clinton voodoo dolls.” Instead, he found that “not only are they not that, but…
They editorialized, they polled and now they’ve been seconded by the faculty: Brown University will no longer celebrate Columbus Day. Why? From an earlier editorial at the Brown Daily Herald: Anyone who has studied history, especially at a mostly liberal institution like Brown, knows that Christopher Columbus did not “discover” the Americas. Not only are…
Until I reached the end, I wasn’t going to bother commenting on Bob Kerr’s column, today. It’s all emoting, no solutions. Or rather, in the typical fashion of typical liberals, Kerr’s solution is an implied government gimme. But the daughter of the woman who receives most of Kerr’s attention makes a complaint — a set…
This is shocking: DeHayes would not provide the exact contents of the messages, which he said were found on a computer in the Memorial Union, the student life building, and at Swan Hall. In an interview yesterday, he would say only that they were a “characterization” of Obama. DeHayes said a student brought the messages…
Apparently, conservatives can be found everywhere, even at RISD (via Ian). Zach Brown, founder and president of RISD Conservatives and a sophomore illustration major, said, “I became politically involved once I came to college because I was constantly being fed liberal propaganda.” Brown, who considers Ronald Reagan his personal hero, described Rhode Island School of…
Sadly, it seems unlikely that Brown philosophy professor Felicia Nimue Ackerman’s attitude is the majority one on American (at least New England) campuses. Here are four reasons that she didn’t “devote a portion of class time” on a particular week “to teach about climate change”: Reason 1: Climate change is not what students signed up…