On the Campus
Anchor Rising commenter mangeek sends along this Huffington Post post on student loans: A strange milestone was marked this week in the history of student loans. The total balance of all outstanding US student loans (given as $730 billion in DIY U, based on OMB estimates) is now estimated by Mark Kantrowitz of Finaid.org at…
Commenter Brassband notes, in the comment section of my post on the University of Illinois’ firing of a professor of Catholic thought for teaching Catholic thought, has been offered his job back (via American Papist): The university released a statement today saying that Howell’s appointment as an adjunct instructor in the Religion Department — teaching…
There may be more to the story, but it appears that University of Illinois Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies Kenneth Howell has lost his job for the offense of teaching Catholic thought as if it might be worth considering as something more than a curious human error. Kenneth Howell was told after the spring…
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…
