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Claim: A photograph shows a group of Texas college students protesting the rising cost of education by writing their debts on their graduation caps. FALSE Example: [Collected via Reddit, April 2016] Texan students protest skyrocketing college debt. Origin:A photograph purportedly showing a group of students with the amount of their debt taped onto their graduation…
Image copyright APImage caption Antonin Scalia, appointed by President Reagan in 1986, was one of the most conservative Supreme Court judges Officials at a US university were left red-faced after their decision to rename a law school after late Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia prompted hilarity over its unfortunate acronym. George Mason University in Virginia…
Story highlights The school first changed the name to The Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSoL Observers took to Twitter to comment on the acronym’s similarity to a curse word The school first announced it would change the name to The Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSoL, after receiving an anonymous $30 million…
The public hates the press. The press hates the public. We get it. Fair enough. We can only get the faintest glimmer of love from college kids, even. http://gawker.com/public-trust-i… A new Gallup poll of US college students is out, commissioned purely with the intent of catching college kids in some sort of stupid beliefs and…
Richard Conniff When people talk about natural history museums, they almost always roll out the well-worn descriptive “dusty,” to the great exasperation of a curator I know. Maybe he’s annoyed because he’s spent large sums of his museum’s money building decidedly un-dusty climate-controlled storage sites, and the word implies neglect. (“Let me know,” the curator…
A student who was born female felt perfectly comfortable identifying as a man at Wellesley College — until people said he shouldn’t be class diversity officer because he is now a white male. Timothy Boatwright was born a girl, and checked off the “female” box when applying to the Massachusetts all-women’s school, according to an…
The pipeline started at baptism and ended at college graduation. Catholic kids in Philly went to Catholic grade school and Catholic high school and, if they weren’t a star athlete or headed to the Ivy League caliber student, probably Saint Joseph’s, La Salle, Villanova or maybe one of the smaller Catholic colleges in the area,…
Download a PDF of this report. Why investigate ‘trigger warnings’? Waves of media attention tell us that college students are demanding that professors provide so-called ‘trigger warnings’ to flag material that might cause distress or discomfort, or possibly trigger a panic attack in students with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As a cover story in The…
Among critics looking for examples of coddling on campus, no action has been ridiculed more than the “trigger warning,” in which college professors caution their students that the class will discuss a subject that could produce a painful emotional response. But the criticism may have outpaced the pro-trigger-warning activists. A new report says that almost…
YoutubeJanet Mock, a black transgender activist and author, cancelled an upcoming appearance at Brown University after leftist students protested her decision to speak. The students didn’t object to Mock: rather, they disagreed with the venue—Hillel, a Jewish organization. According to Campus Reform, activist students associate Hillel with anti-Palestinian racism: “Hillel as a corporation has consistently defended…