Univ. of Texas panel OKs guns in classrooms ahead of ‘mock shooting’ protest | Fox News

Matthew Short , public relations director with Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com. (Jay Janner /Austin American-Statesman via AP) Days before a planned ‘mock shooting’ demonstration just outside the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, a panel on Thursday recommended policies that would allow concealed handguns in classrooms. UT President Greg Fenves will…

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The 13 Women Who Accused A Cop Of Sexual Assault, In Their Own Words – BuzzFeed News

After four days of deliberation, a jury found former Oklahoma City Police Department Officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of multiple counts of rape and sexual assault on Thursday December 10. Holtzclaw, who has been on trial since November 2, was accused of sexually assaulting 13 black women in the community he patrolled. All 13 women testified…

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Do women like sexual objectification? According to this study, it depends on who’s doing it. – Seriously, Science?

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The humiliating nightmare of academic-conference season.

  Conference season invokes the stuff of Hieronymus Bosch’s apocalyptic paintings.Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Mike Watson Images/Thinkstock, painting by Hieronymus Bosch. One of the advantages of an academic career is that most universities take a two- or three-week winter break. While students clog the overhead compartments of America with fetid laundry and…

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Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at “Slower” Colleges | Mother Jones

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia AP Photo/Jim Mone During oral arguments in a pivotal affirmative action case on Wednesday morning, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia raised the suggestion that African American students might belong at less rigorous schools than their white peers, and that perhaps the University of Texas should have fewer black students in…

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