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		<title>U. Minnesota Considers Ban on Mentioning Race in Crime Alerts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leftists claim students are more endangered by publicizing races of roving criminals. ]]></description>
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<p>• Administrators at the University of Minnesota are <a href="http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/01/29/u-students-want-crime-alerts-to-avoid-using-racial-descriptions/">looking into</a> a proposal to ban the use of racial descriptions of suspects in crime alerts. The policy change was proposed in a letter sent to university officials by a number of student and faculty organizations on campus including the Black Student Union and the Black Faculty and Staff Association who claim minority students on campus feel threatened when black suspects are named in crime alerts. “Efforts to reduce crime should never be at the expense of our Black men, or any specific group of people likely to be targeted,” stated the letter. Vice President of University Services Pamela Wheelock responded that while she shares the letter-writers’ concerns over possible profiling, “I believe that sharing more information in our Crime Alerts, not less, is most beneficial in terms of public safety, especially when that information is available.”</p>
<p>• Maranatha Baptist University, a small Christian school of about 1400 students in Wisconsin, has relegated its “Crusaders” team name and mascot <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/16133/">to the dust heap</a> after it was deemed too controversial.  The campus has received no complaints about the name, which has been in use since the school’s founding in 1968. “In light of our global outreach and more advanced understanding of how things could be perceived, we want to avoid controversy,” explained the university’s executive vice president Matt Davis.</p>
<p>• A pro-life display on the campus of the University of Southern California that was set up to commemorate the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision was <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/16031/">repeatedly defaced</a>. The display was organized by USC Students for Life and included a photo of a fetus in utero, information about post-abortion counseling and 275 paper hearts meant to stand for the number of abortions that take place every two hours in America. Posters in the display were ripped in half (and later taped back together) and two female students were discovered laying waste to the rest of the display. After one of those students remained to apologize and discuss her views on abortion, Students for Life elected not to file a complaint.</p>
<p><b>Further News from the Campuses:</b></p>
<p><b>Dartmouth Students Accuse School of ‘Hypocrisy’ for Celebrating MLK but Not Doing Enough to ‘End White Supremacy. And Maybe Capitalism’ </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>The students who interrupted Dartmouth University’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day keynote address have explained that they did so to protest the “hypocrisy” of the school celebrating the holiday without doing enough to “End White Supremacy. And maybe capitalism.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5386">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Two Wrongs Don&#8217;t Make a Right: ASA Boycott and NY State Legislature Both Threaten Academic Freedom </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>Last December, members of the American Studies Association (ASA) voted to <a href="http://www.theasa.net/from_the_editors/item/asa_members_vote_to_endorse_academic_boycott/">endorse</a> a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The action <a href="http://www.theasa.net/what_does_the_academic_boycott_mean_for_the_asa/">constitutes</a> a “refusal on the part of the ASA in its official capacities to enter into formal collaborations with Israeli academic institutions, or with scholars who are expressly serving as representatives or ambassadors of those institutions (such as deans, rectors, presidents and others), or on behalf of the Israeli government.”</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16698.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Professor Describes al-Qaeda As Freedom Fighters </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>How would you define al-Qaeda? Most would use the word “terrorists.”</p>
<p>But here is my professor’s stab at it: “The Al Qaeda movement of Osama bin Laden is one example of an attempt to free a country (in this case, Saudi Arabia) from a corrupt and repressive regime propped up by a neocolonial power (in this case, the United States).”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/16052/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Co-Educational? Columbia &amp; Barnard Students Film Porno in Butler Library </b>[New York Observer]</p>
<p>Columbia is the sight of many historical moments. The newest one? A porno filmed in Butler Library.</p>
<p><a href="http://observer.com/2014/02/co-educational-columbia-barnard-students-film-porno-in-butler-library/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Wikipedia is ‘Very Masculine,’ so Feminists Pledge to Fix It </b>[Daily Caller]</p>
<p>Feminist groups at more than a dozen universities are planning to participate in another mass “edit Wikipedia day,” because the free, volunteer encyclopedia website is obviously horribly sexist.<br />
<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/02/wikipedia-is-very-masculine-so-feminists-pledge-to-fix-it/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Canada: Students Cheer as University Violates Free Speech</b> [Pan Am Post]</p>
<p>McMaster University administrators in Canada have effectively banned a <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/mcmaster-student-group-suspended-over-sexist-violent-degrading-songbook-1.2508250">book they find immoral</a>, and many students support the school’s oppressive decision.</p>
<p><a href="http://panampost.com/adam-kissel/2014/01/27/canada-students-cheer-university-violates-free-speech/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Professor Labels American Studies Association Boycott of Israeli Academia ‘Anti-Semitic’ </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>The American Studies Association’s (ASA) boycott of Israeli academic institutions is simply old-fashioned anti-Semitism, according to a Drexel University history professor.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5391">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Johnson Discusses Misteaching History </b>[The Williams Record]</p>
<p>The student-run “Uncomfortable Learning at Williams” speaker series kicked off this past Wednesday night with a talk on the dangers of “misteaching” history by Professor K.C. Johnson of Brooklyn College and the City of New York Graduate Center. Johnson spent several years teaching at the College, before eventually moving on to Brooklyn, where he teaches history.</p>
<p><a href="http://williamsrecord.com/2014/01/22/johnson-discusses-misteaching-history/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Stanford Law Prof: Second Amendment is About Restricting Gun Rights </b>[Daily Caller]</p>
<p>A Stanford University law professor took the view that the Second Amendment permits strong gun control, telling the crowd that “restriction has to be at the core” of the right to carry a gun.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/30/stanford-law-prof-second-amendment-is-about-restricting-gun-rights/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Feud Over Hillel Pro-Israel Rule Sparks New Controversy at California College </b>[Jewish Daily Forward]</p>
<p>It all started innocently enough: The Israel Committee of Santa Barbara, Calif., which works with the local chapter of Hillel, American Jewry’s on campus program for students, invited author David Harris-Gershon to keynote its annual Israel educational event in April.</p>
<p><a href="http://forward.com/articles/191584/feud-over-hillel-pro-israel-rule-sparks-new-contro/?p=all">Read more</a></p>
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<p><b>State Schools Don&#8217;t Verify Citizen Status [</b>New Hampshire Union Leader]</p>
<p>University System of New Hampshire schools are not verifying U.S. citizenship of students signing affidavits required by law to get the in-state tuition rate.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140202/NEWS04/140209896">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Public university spending at least $25,500 on Sex Week </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>The University of Tennessee (UT) is spending at least $25,500 on a Sex Week which will include events such as a masturbation workshop.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5413">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>UNC Academic Fraud Scandal Sparks Racial Recriminations </b>[Business Week]</p>
<p>The University of North Carolina <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/01/30/4652834/a-former-unc-dean-recalls-athletes.html">academic fraud scandal</a> has entered its Tom Wolfe phase, revealing a racial subtext of the uniquely ironic and bitter American variety.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-04/unc-academic-fraud-scandal-sparks-racial-recriminations">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Study Finds University of Cincinnati Not Conducive to Free Speech </b>[The News Record]</p>
<p>For the sixth year in a row, the University of Cincinnati kept its reputation for restricting free speech and it isn’t the only university labeled so, according to an annual report released by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newsrecord.org/news/campus/study-finds-uc-not-conducive-to-free-speech/article_6753a5fc-8c5e-11e3-9e95-001a4bcf6878.html">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Dartmouth Leftists Bar Conservatives from MLK Day Planning, Stage Protest of “White Supremacy”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 23:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The racist campus Gestapo strikes again. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/0508_photo_630x420.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217262" alt="0508_photo_630x420" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/0508_photo_630x420-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>A regular column dedicated to reporting on the slanted teaching, mis-administration and sheer insanity of our nation’s colleges and universities.</i></p>
<p><b>Top Stories:</b></p>
<p>• Two staffers for the conservative campus paper, <i>The Dartmouth Review</i>, were <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15945/">denied entry</a> to a strategy session held by leftist campus activists on how to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on campus after admitting that they were not registered Democrats. When the students attempted to enter the meeting, they were halted at the door by one of the organizers who demanded to know their political affiliation. After stating that they were “registered independents” the Review staffers were told that the meeting was private and they could not attend. “What I am really frustrated at is the fact that we can’t have reasonable discussions about these issues,” commented Sandor Farkas, one of the students denied access to the meeting. “It has to be very private, secretive – and I don’t think that represents the spirit of MLK or in trying to create an awareness of various issues.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">• During the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5383">subsequent events</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> held for MLK Day, Dartmouth student Jalil Bishop, who is the president of the campus Afro-American Society, delayed the invited keynote speaker, ABC News correspondent John Quinones, from taking the podium for 20 minutes, while he led the audience in an angry protest.  As part of the protest, large numbers of sign-carrying students mounted the stage to join Bishop while shouting, “No justice! No peace!” Bishop continued to address the audience, urging it to “stand if you understand that we must eradicate white supremacy” and stating that Dartmouth is “complicit in failing to break down the structure that keeps so many black and brown bodies across the country and around the world marginalized, and keeps so many white bodies benefiting from that marginalization.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">• Florida Carry, Inc., a pro-Second Amendment group that defends citizens’ rights to carry firearms, has </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.floridacarry.org/flcinews/93-florida-carry-sues-the-university-of-florida-for-illegal-ban-on-guns-and-other-defensive-weapons-in-cars-and-homes">filed a lawsuit</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> against the University of Florida alleging that the University has disregarded a previous ruling stating that its campus gun regulations are unconstitutional.  Current UF policy prohibits the carrying of firearms or weapons anywhere on university property. Florida Carry alleges that instead of heeding calls to reform these unconstitutional policies, the University merely added an “Intent” footnote to its current regulations. “Nationwide, millions of adult university faculty, students, and their families live in university owned housing,” states Florida Carry’s press release.  “The fact that state housing facilities run by Florida Universities continue to deprive law abiding adults of their fundamental right to keep and bear arms in their homes, years after the clear decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that such bans are unconstitutional, is unconscionable.”</span></p>
<p>• The 2014 annual Modern Language Association convention, a gathering of literary academics, featured a roundtable discussion on “Academic Boycotts: A Conversation about Israel and Palestine which included supporters of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/01/02/pro-israel-college-groups-denied-chance-to-present-at-modern-language-association-conference/">but no opponents</a>. Pro-Israel groups Hillel International and Israel on Campus Coalition attempted to host a discussion at the convention but were denied by the MLA which claimed they had submitted their application too late. Participants at the roundtable on Israel included Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the BDS movement, as well as Wesleyan professor Richard Ohmann who signed a letter declaring that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians constitutes “one of the most massive, ethnocidal atrocities of modern times.”</p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Further News From the Campuses:</b></p>
<p><b>Whistle Blower Blocked</b> [InsideHigherEd.com]</p>
<p>The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has revoked a reading specialist and adjunct professor’s permission to discuss her research or otherwise use her data on student athlete literacy, just weeks after she was featured in a network news story on the topic.</p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/20/u-north-carolina-shuts-down-whistle-blower-athletes">Read more</a></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Partial Victory Over Anti-Israel Efforts at 2014 MLA Convention Shows Battle Winnable </b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">[LegalInsurrection.com]</span></p>
<p>On Saturday, the Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly suffered through more than four hours of parliamentary confusion as it considered two controversial resolutions related to Israel. Despite the rancor, pro-Israel advocates are savoring a partial victory as the 2014 MLA Convention concludes—the first such academic victory in recent memory.</p>
<p><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/01/partial-victory-over-anti-israel-efforts-at-2014-mla-convention-shows-battle-winnable/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Public University Professors Invent Tool to Measure Faculty Attitudes Towards Diversity </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>Four professors at the University of Kansas (KU) claim to have developed an “instrument” which can determine faculty attitudes about diversity.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5368">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Professors Deliberately Ignore Shooting, Endanger Students </b>[Purdue Review]</p>
<p>A surreal scene unfolded around noon on Tuesday. As a gunman shot an instructor at point-blank range in front of a classroom of students, some Purdue professors continued to teach class as if nothing was amiss, ignoring students’ pleas to lock the doors and turn off the lights.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.purduereview.com/5/professors-deliberately-ignore-shooting-endanger-students/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Yale Unlearns Free Expression</b> [TheFire.org]</p>
<p>The <i>Yale Daily News</i> <a href="http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/01/14/yale-shuts-down-yale-bluebook/">reports</a> that Yale University is blocking a popular course evaluation site called CourseTable (originally called Bluebook+) put together by undergraduate brothers Peter Xu and Harry Yu. This is the second time Yale has tried to stifle a student website rating Yale’s courses and professors.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/torch/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Dissenters Not Welcome Here</b> [Dartmouth Review]</p>
<p>In a civilized, open society, nothing is more sacred than freedom of expression. Despite what Dr. Rickford may think, constructive discourse involving all sides of an issue is and always will be the best way to make the world a better place.</p>
<p><a href="http://dartreview.com/dartlog/2014/1/14/dissenters-not-welcome-here.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Why Are the Clintons Hawking a Seedy, Soros-Backed For-Profit College Corporation? </b>[Daily Caller]</p>
<p>Former President Bill Clinton and presumed 2016 Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton have deep ties to Laureate Education, an international conglomerate of aggressive, telemarketing-happy, for-profit colleges that is ensnared in controversy all over the globe.</p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/13/why-are-the-clintons-hawking-a-seedy-soros-backed-for-profit-college-corporation/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Law School Bathrooms Go Gender Neutral to Promote ‘LGBTQ Diversity’ </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>Roger Williams University (RWU) Law in Bristol, R.I., instituted a gender neutral bathroom policy policy on Wednesday in order to accommodate LGBTQ students and emulate other “progressive” institutions.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5355&amp;app=cro">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>MLA Caucus Introduces Resolution in Support of Israel-Boycotting ASA </b>[JNS.org]</p>
<p><i> (JNS.org) </i>At the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Chicago on Friday, an MLA caucus introduced an “Emergency Resolution in Support of the American Studies Association,” <i>JNS.org</i> has learned. The American Studies Association (ASA) recently voted to endorse an academic boycott of Israel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2014/1/10/mla-caucus-introduces-resolution-in-support-of-israel-boycotting-asa">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Support Pours in for Grand Valley State Student Journalist Harangued by Administrators </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>We recently brought you the <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16642.html">unfortunate story</a> of Grand Valley State University (GVSU) student and <i>Grand Valley Lanthorn </i>student newspaper editor-in-chief Lizzy Balboa, who was beleaguered by campus administrators for <a href="http://www.lanthorn.com/article/2014/01/free-speech-and-the-business-model-of-education-at-gvsu">publishing an editorial</a> expressing concern that GVSU might be prioritizing donor appeasement over education, free speech rights, and academic freedom. Shockingly, administrators reportedly told Balboa that she was unworthy of her scholarship because she was “ungrateful,” and suggested that the <i>Lanthorn</i> retract its editorial and publish puff pieces expressing gratitude to donors.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16658.html">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Conservative Daily Caller Banned from MLA Convention</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But the academic organization opens its arms to the Marxist "Red Wedge." ]]></description>
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<p><b>Top Stories:</b></p>
<p>• The Modern Language Association (MLA) a far-left academic organization, has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/04/modern-language-associations-fascist-douchebags-outlaw-the-daily-caller-from-convention/">banned</a> the conservative publication, the <i>Daily Caller</i>, from attending its 2014 convention. According to an email received by the <i>Daily Caller</i> from the MLA’s press liaison, “The convention office reviewed you request but will not be issuing media credentials for the <i>Daily Caller</i>.”  The MLA did not respond to the <i>Daily Caller</i>’s requests for an explanation for this denial. Publications represented at past MLA conventions include <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Nation</i>, and the Marxist <i>Red Wedge</i>.</p>
<p>• Tulane political science professor and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/31/no-joke-msnbc-mitt-romney-and-black-child/">mocked</a> Mitt Romney’s family Christmas card on her weekend program. The card shows Romney holding his adopted black grandchild on his lap, surrounded by his many other grandchildren.  Harris-Perry later apologized for her remarks, and those of her on-air guests (one of whom claimed the photo “really sums up the diversity of the Republican party, the RNC”), stating “I apologize to all families built on loving transracial adoptions who feel I degraded their lives or choices.”  Romney accepted her apology.</p>
<p>• The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF), a statewide union which represents faculty and personnel on Pennsylvania state campuses, has <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-08/news/45958873_1_pennsylvania-state-college-university-faculties-faculty-members">voiced its opposition</a> to a proposed policy that would permit the carrying of weapons, including firearms, in open areas on campus such as parking lots and sidewalks. The policy would not permit weapons inside buildings or at class activities, sporting events, or other organized outside events. The taskforce recommending the policy includes police officers, students, faculty, members of the system’s board of governors and university presidents.  The taskforce’s recommendation echoes the guidance provided by lawyers for the system who note that wholesale bans on weapons on the grounds of public campuses have been declared unconstitutional in recent years.</p>
<p>• A student at The College of New Jersey has courageously come forward to <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15812/">expose the pro-Obamacare and anti-Republican rantings</a> of her German professor.  In a recent exposé, student Emma Colton recounts how her German for Beginners professor John Benjamin used his classroom lectern to encourage students to “examine the great benefits of Obamacare” while insulting the Tea Party as “very moronic.”  Colton notes that it is only now after her final grade has been recorded in this course that she feels comfortable in coming forward with her experience of classroom indoctrination.</p>
<p><b>Further News from the Campuses:</b></p>
<p><b>ASA-Awarded Scholars Denounce Israeli Boycott, Call For Revote </b>[TheCollegeFix.com]</p>
<p>One dozen decorated members of the American Studies Association have denounced the scholarly group’s recent controversial decision to boycott Israeli academic institutions and have called for a revote.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15793/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>The Humanities Have Forgotten Their Humanity</b> [Wall Street Journal]</p>
<p>In 2011, the University of California at Los Angeles wrecked its English major. Such a development may seem insignificant, compared with, say, the federal takeover of health care. It is not. What happened at UCLA is part of a momentous shift that bears on our relationship to the past—and to civilization itself.</p>
<p><a href="http://m.us.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304858104579264321265378790-lMyQjAxMTA0MDAwNDEwNDQyWj?mobile=y">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>A Dangerous Policy</b> [InsideHigherEd.com]</p>
<p>For decades, the Supreme Court has kept vigil over the campuses of state universities as, in the words of one memorable 1995 ruling, &#8220;peculiarly the marketplace for ideas.&#8221; No opinion, the Supreme Court has emphasized, is too challenging or unsettling that it can be banned from the college classroom.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/01/02/essay-criticizes-new-kansas-policy-use-social-media-university-employees">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Orange Hush: OSU Student Media Adviser Says University Tried to Quash Her Quest for Public Records </b>[Corvallis Gazette-Times]</p>
<p>Oregon State University student media adviser Kate Willson thought she was just doing her job when she filed a public records request with the university. Now she’s worried it could get her fired. OSU’s chief spokesman says Willson’s job is safe and the university was not trying to muzzle her. But he also says Willson was out of line when she tried to obtain public records from the institution she works for and that all such requests should be filed by student journalists, not their adviser.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/education/orange-hush-osu-student-media-adviser-says-university-tried-to/article_90e0f708-6f6c-11e3-8c46-001a4bcf887a.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Universities Continue to Ignore the Lessons of Litigation on Campus Free Speech Zones </b>[HuffingtonPost.com]</p>
<p>A student at Modesto Junior College in California who wanted to silently <a href="http://thefire.org/case/930">distribute copies</a> of the U.S. Constitution to his fellow students &#8212; on Constitution Day &#8212; was stopped by the police. A student group at the University of Cincinnati looking to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/24/right-to-work-students-sue-university-of-cincinnati-over-free-speech-area/">collect signatures</a> for a statewide &#8220;right to work&#8221; ballot initiative is threatened with charges. Students and community members at Sinclair Community College in Ohio who merely sought to <a href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/sinclair-students-sue-over-protest-sign-ban-2/nPwZr/">hold signs</a> made for a campus rally were told that they must lay them flat on the ground.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/azhar-majeed/universities-college-free-speech-zones_b_4499105.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Longtime MU Fan Chants Deemed Offensive, Banned From Arena </b>[TheCollegeFix.com]</p>
<p>“<i>Scum, scum, scum – go back to where you’re from</i> . . .” is a chant that could be heard at any given University of Missouri Tiger basketball game over the years as Mizzou fans taunted opponents.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15791/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Union Decries Proposal to Allow Weapons in Open Areas on Campus</b> [CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>The statewide union for Pennsylvania state college and university faculties is opposing a proposed policy to allow firearms in open areas of fourteen of the state’s public institutions of higher education.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5347">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Kansas Board of Regents to Review Controversial Social Media Policy </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>The Kansas Board of Regents <a href="http://www.kansasregents.org/board_recommends_workgroup_to_review_policy">announced</a> Tuesday that it will create a “workgroup” to review the new <a href="http://www.kansasregents.org/policy_chapter_ii_c_suspensions">policy</a> on “improper use of social media” by faculty that has earned a <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2013/12/24/4711853/critics-challenge-kansas-board.html">steady</a> <a href="http://www.kansas.com/2014/01/02/3205236/barbara-shelly-social-media-policy.html">stream</a> of <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16601.html">criticism</a> from academic freedom advocates since it was adopted two weeks ago.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16622.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University-Sponsored Production Glorifies White-Shaming </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>The University of Oregon (UO) put on a production about race in which one student repeatedly asked &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m white.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t choose to be white. As a matter of fact, I don&#8217;t even know why I&#8217;m white,&#8221; said Eric Braman during <a href="http://exploreidentity.uoregon.edu/2013/11/22/if-you-missed-michele-norris-on-campus/"><b>the Nov. 13 event</b></a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5334">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Editorial: Colleges Flunk Free Speech Test</b> [The Wilson Times]</p>
<p>College students returning to class for the spring semester this week might find themselves in hot water for exercising the rights they learn in lecture halls.</p>
<p>Two North Carolina schools — Appalachian State University in Boone and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — were recently named to a list of the 10 worst colleges in America for free speech. The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonpartisan rights advocacy group, released the annual list on Dec. 27.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wilsontimes.com/News/Feature/Story/28166382---State-colleges-flunk-free-speech-test">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Cornell Diversity Group &#8216;Lost&#8217; $8,000 But Cuts Deemed Discriminatory</title>
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<p>• Attempts by the student government at Cornell to cut the budget of the African, Latino, Asian, Native American Students Intercultural Programming Board (ALANA) <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15684/">were rejected</a> and characterized as discriminatory despite drastic overspending by the group and the outright loss of $8,000 in unaccounted funds. While the Cornell Student Assembly recommends a funding limit of $10 per attending student at events, ALANA funded some events at a cost of up to $92 per student and wasted student funds on trivialities such as $450 for pins for the group’s executive board. Ultimately, ALANA’s budget was reduced only slightly to $108,000 for the next two years as opposed to $118,000 for the 2012-2014 allocation after attempts to dramatically reign in the budget were characterized by supporters as failing to be “sensitive to the needs of cultural umbrella and programming organizations like ALANA.”</p>
<p>• As part of an art project on racism, a black student at Sacramento State University designed an outdoor exhibit featuring the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/18/black-student-stages-fake-lynching-of-white-people-in-highly-offensive-art-stunt/">apparent lynching of two white people</a>. The white individuals were actors who were displayed dangling from a tree on campus with nooses encircling their necks. Student Christina Edwards who designed the piece stated that it was meant “to bring to light social injustices and the issue of inequality that impacts me and my community as a whole.” Edwards did not seek University approval to set up her display and administrators are looking into whether any campus rules were violated.</p>
<p>• The American Studies Association (ASA) voted in December to support a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/16/u-s-academic-group-votes-to-boycott-israeli-universities/">boycott of all academic institutions in Israel</a>, the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, while taking no action against the numerous tyrannical states and dictatorships across the globe.  The resolution stated that the ASA “endorses and will honor the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. It is also resolved that the ASA supports the protected rights of students and scholars everywhere to engage in research and public speaking about Israel-Palestine and in support of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement.” Dozens of colleges and universities in America, including Harvard and Yale, have spoken out opposing the ASA’s vote as prejudiced and several have withdrawn from ASA membership entirely.  Among the testimony considered by the ASA was that of Communist terrorist Angela Davis who compared the situation of Palestinians to the Jim Crow South and Richard Falk, a 9/11 “truther” and anti-Semite.</p>
<p>• The University of Michigan chapter of Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian campus group, has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/23/libertarian-students-sue-umich-for-political-discrimination/">filed a lawsuit</a> alleging that the University’s decision to deny them funding constitutes unconstitutional political discrimination. Officials from the university stated that they were ineligible for university funding because their events and activities were “political.”  But other campus groups with a clear left-wing political agenda, including the NAACP and Immigrant Rights Advocacy do receive university funding. The lawsuit against the University was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group, on behalf of Young Americans for Liberty.</p>
<p><strong>Further News from the Campuses:</strong></p>
<p><b>False Threats Graduate to The Ivy League </b>[TheCollegeConservative.com]</p>
<p>This past Monday morning, students at Harvard University had more than just the stress of finals to deal with.</p>
<p>Harvard University Police were given an <a href="http://www.harvard.edu/emergency">unconfirmed tip that explosives</a> were placed in four academic buildings on campus.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecollegeconservative.com/2013/12/20/false-threats-graduate-to-the-ivy-league/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University of Colorado May Cut Hours on Student Jobs Due to New Obamacare Regs</b> [CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>Officials at the University of Colorado (CU) are scrambling to figure how new regulations stemming from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may negatively affect student employees, top administrators told <i>The Scribe</i> this month.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5310">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>California College Suspends Speech Restrictions Amidst Settlement Talks </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>FRESNO, Calif., Dec. 18, 2013—Modesto Junior College (MJC) has agreed to suspend enforcement of its “free speech zone” as it negotiates an end to a federal <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16327.html"><b>lawsuit</b></a> filed by a student prevented from handing out copies of the Constitution on campus on Constitution Day.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16588.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Black student Stages Fake Lynching of White People in Highly Offensive Art Stunt </b>[DailyCaller.com]</p>
<p>A black student at Sacramento State University staged a fake lynching of two white people as part of an art project exploring racism.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, students at the public university campus saw two white people hanging from a tree with nooses around their necks. They were actors who had been hired by Christina Edwards, an artist and senior at the college.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/18/black-student-stages-fake-lynching-of-white-people-in-highly-offensive-art-stunt/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Were Vassar Hoax Bias Perps Also Involved in a False Rape Prosecution? </b>[Daily Caller]</p>
<p>The two former Vassar College students who were expelled for creating hoax bias incidents and then filing false reports about them were also actively involved with the college’s Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention committee, which currently faces a lawsuit for prosecuting a wrongful rape conviction.<br />
<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/11/were-vassar-hoax-bias-perps-also-involved-in-a-false-rape-prosecution/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Speech Codes of the Year: 2013</b> [TheFire.org]</p>
<p>While all of 2013’s Speech Codes of the Month flagrantly violated students’ or faculty members’ right to free expression, two of them were so egregious that they deserve special mention as 2013’s Speech Codes of the Year.<br />
<a href="http://thefire.org/torch/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>ACLU: College Cancelled Concert Because Band Members were &#8216;Not Black Enough&#8217; </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>Administrators at Hampshire College (Hampshire) cancelled a Halloween concert last month because the lead singer of the band scheduled to perform was &#8220;not black enough,&#8221; the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged in a letter to the school&#8217;s president.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5291">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Notre Dame Renews Litigation Against HHS Mandate </b>[The Irish Rover]</p>
<p>On December 3, Notre Dame announced that it has refiled its lawsuit to seek judicial protection relief from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) insurance mandate that would require Notre Dame to provide, either through its insurance plans or a third party administrator, various drugs and products which the government describes as “contraceptive,” but which include abortifacients (such as Ella and the IUD).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.irishrover.net/?p=4573">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University of Michigan Student Group Files Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Funding Decisions </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>Last Friday, a student group at the University of Michigan (UM) filed a <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/files/YALcomplaint.pdf">federal lawsuit</a> (PDF) against the university, claiming that UM violated the First Amendment when it refused to grant the group student fee funding for one of its activities on the basis that it was a “political activity.” The suit is being brought by Alliance Defending Freedom.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16603.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Kenyon College Withdraws from ASA, Citing Call to Boycott Israel </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Kenyon College is <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15732/">the latest institution</a> to reject the American Studies Association’s call for an academic boycott of Israel. But Kenyon has taken its response a step further and is actually withdrawing from the ASA.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15741/">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Black Professor Reprimanded for Targeting White Males as Racist</title>
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<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Top Stories:</span></b></p>
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<li>Minneapolis Community and Technical College has <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5276">issued a formal reprimand</a> to African-American professor Shannon Gibney charging that her comments in class “single[d] out white male students” and thereby “created a hostile learning environment” for these pupils. Gibney claims that the students took her lecture on “structural racism” personally and filed a racial discrimination complaint after she challenged them to do so. In a letter appended to Gibney’s file, the College’s Vice President of Academic Affairs held that it is “troubling that the manner in which you led a discussion on the very important topic of structural racism alienated two students who may have been most in need of learning about this subject.” This latest charge is Gibney’s second formal reprimand for racial discrimination against white students. In 2009, MCTC issued an earlier reprimand after Gibney was accused of targeting white male students on the campus newspaper staff for not working hard enough to eliminate racial bias from the paper. Gibney is currently suing MCTC in a class action lawsuit joined by six other faculty members.</li>
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<li>A pro-life exhibit organized by the Central Michigan University chapter of Students for Life was <a href="http://collegeinsurrection.com/2013/11/pro-life-display-vandalized-at-central-michigan-university/">dismantled and stolen</a>.  The exhibit featured infant clothing hanging on a clothesline. Every fourth item was tagged with a red “X” to indicate the 25% of pregnancies in America that end in abortion. Students for Life was forced to wait for two months for campus administrators to give permission for the display. The installation was up for only two days before it was stolen.</li>
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<li>Duquesne University, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has <a href="http://thefire.org/torch/#16536">forced a conservative student to remove</a> a political poster which she had posted in her campus dorm on the grounds that it is “too upsetting.”  The poster contains an image of human bones accompanied by the headline “Leftist Ideas: Progressing Towards Tyranny.”  It also contains a list of “Murders by ‘Progressive Social Movements’” along with the number of people who perished in these mass genocides. ““I am upset about the censorship,” commented the student, Bridget Seelinger. “I understand if it was racist or included death threats, but something like that is virtually harmless. I don’t understand why anyone had a problem with it, and why skulls are so scary.”</li>
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<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Further News from the Campuses:</span></b></p>
<p><strong>College IT Professional Convicted in Child Porn Case Continues to Draw $48K Salary from Public University [Campus Reform]</strong></p>
<p>An IT professional who was placed on administrative leave over federal child pornography charges, continues to receive his full salary at Green River Community College, in Auburn, Washington.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5264">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>State Official Slams University of Kansas for Allowing Prof Suspended over NRA Tweet to be Back at Work [Fox News]</strong></p>
<p>A state official from Kansas criticized the University of Kansas’ decision to allow the professor suspended over a tweet that targeted the National Rifle Association after the Navy Yard shooting to be allowed to return the school.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/26/state-official-slams-university-kansas-for-allowing-prof-suspended-over-nra/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>University Forbids Poster That Takes A Stand Against Communism [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>A poster meant to illustrate the number of individuals who have been murdered by collectivist governments was deemed too harsh by officials at Duquesne University, which disallowed the image from hanging on campus.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15406/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Black Female Professor Reprimanded for Pointing Out Existence of Structural Racism to White Male Students [RawStory.com]</strong></p>
<p>A faculty member at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Shannon Gibney, received a formal reprimand for her handling of a discussion about structural racism in her Introduction to Mass Communication course.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/02/black-female-professor-reprimanded-for-pointing-out-existence-of-structural-racism-to-white-male-students/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University of Kansas Students and Administrators Embarrassed Following Al Jazeera Expose on College Partying and Sexual Assault</b> <strong>[University Herald]</strong></p>
<p>Students and administrators at the University of Kansas (KU) are embarrassed and ashamed of the contents of a recent Al Jazeera America investigative piece on the relation between college partying culture and sexual assault.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.universityherald.com/articles/5668/20131119/university-of-kansas-students-and-administrators-embarrassed-following-al-jazeera-expose-on-college-partying-and-sexual-assault.htm#rP3xph60T8kcO6P5.99">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is Racist, Says Portland School Official [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15414/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>‘Nava-Ho’ Party was Ignorant, Investigation is No Better [Mustang News]</strong></p>
<p>The organizations that held a “Colonial Bros and Nava-hos”-themed party earlier this month need to reevaluate of their judgment and sensitivity. Those who hosted the party need to own up to their mistake to everyone on campus, not just send their public relations director to apologize after being called out at a campus forum.</p>
<p>But Cal Poly also needs a reminder in its duties as part of the state government; free speech cannot fall by the wayside, even when students engage in ideas that are as insensitive as the fraternity party.</p>
<p><a href="http://mustangnews.net/nava-ho-party-was-ignorant-investigation-is-no-better/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Kan. School Reportedly Prohibits Student from Posting Fliers with Bible Verses [FoxNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>An Arizona group has filed a federal lawsuit accusing a suburban Kansas City middle school of violating a student&#8217;s First Amendment rights by prohibiting the student from handing out fliers promoting a prayer event.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/03/kan-school-reportedly-prohibits-student-from-posting-poster-with-bible-verses/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong> Indiana University Removes ‘Misguided’ Black Santa Display [FoxNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>A bulletin board meant to provoke discussions of racial stereotypes has been removed Monday night from an Indiana University residence hall after generating outrage on social media.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/04/indiana-university-removes-misguided-black-santa-display/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Why Speech Codes Endure [PopeCenter.org]</strong></p>
<p>At Modesto Junior College on September 17, 2013, an ordinary thing happened on what, by all accounts, is an ordinary college campus. A student, Robert Van Tuinen, was <a title="http://thefire.org/article/16246.html" href="http://thefire.org/article/16246.html" target="_blank">told to stop handing out literature</a> on campus in violation of campus rules.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2936">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16545.html">Student Government at U. of Washington Unanimously Passes Free Speech Resolution </a> [TheFire.org]</strong></p>
<p>On November 26, all 100 members of the Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW), the university’s student government, voted for the passage of a resolution supporting students’ right of free speech.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/torch/#16545">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Professor: Obama Should Be Allowed to Run for a Third Term [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/end-presidential-term-limits/2013/11/28/50876456-561e-11e3-ba82-16ed03681809_story.html"><em>The Washington Post</em></a>, Jonathan Zimmerman, a history professor from NYU, has written an article claiming that all of America’s problems would be soloved–GET THIS–if only we would allow Barack Obama to run for a third term!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15481/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Suppressing Free Speech is Reinharz’s Legacy, Not Fundraising [TheJustice.org]</strong></p>
<p>A recent Boston Globe article has rightfully ignited a firestorm regarding the compensation of former University President Jehuda Reinharz. It is shocking that Reinharz received over $600,000 in 2011 for helping the University transition to a new president—even though Reinharz was on sabbatical throughout the year.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thejustice.org/forum/suppressing-free-speech-is-reinharz-s-legacy-not-fundraising-1.3124765#.Up9ceSfWvgz">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Missouri State to Ban Nerf Guns?</title>
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<p><i></i><b>Top Stories:</b></p>
<p>• The director of public safety at Missouri State University is <a href="/articles/5412/20131106/use-of-nerf-guns-in-humans-vs-zombies-role-playing-game-worries-missouri-state-administrator.htm">raising concerns</a> about the use of fluorescent nerf guns in a popular campus roll-playing game of Humans vs. Zombies. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that it is necessarily a danger to campus. It is a disruption to campus,&#8221; safety director Don Clark told a local radio station. “We cannot tell people that ‘if you see someone with a gun, it might be a Nerf gun, so just disregard it.’” The University is considering a ban on the Nerf guns despite a student government poll showing that students overwhelmingly oppose such a ban.</p>
<p>• An administrator at Furman College in South Carolina was <a href="/2013/11/13/video-did-school-admin-try-to-confiscate-conservative-fliers/">caught on video</a> attempting to confiscate flyers critical of Rev. Jesse Jackson from conservative students who were distributing them outside an event where Jackson was speaking on campus. Video taken of the incident shows Furman Special Events Coordinator Gayle Warth demanding that a student distributing the flyers turn them all over to her. When the student refused, Warth claimed that he could not distribute materials without “pre-approval.” A spokesman for the university defended the administration stating, “Furman is satisfied that no one was prevented from expressing their opinions.”</p>
<p>• The student government at the University of California Berkeley <a href="/corner/363501/uc-berkeley-students-ban-use-illegal-immigrant-andrew-johnson">passed a unanimous resolution</a> barring the term “illegal immigrant” from their discussions and communications. “No human being is illegal,” states the resolution which holds that the term is “racially charged” and leads to “punitive and discriminatory actions aimed primarily at immigrants and communities of color.”  The resolution suggests that student government members substitute other terms including “‘Foreign nationals,’ ‘undocumented immigrants,’ ‘immigrants without papers’ and ‘immigrants seeking status.’” UCLA passed a similar measure last summer.</p>
<p>• The University of Texas—Austin chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) were <a href="/_news/2013/11/19/21537743-texas-young-conservatives-group-cancels-catch-an-illegal-immigrant-game">forced to cancel</a> a planned “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game on campus after administrators issued strong condemnations of the event and implied that participants might face disciplinary action.  Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement Gregory Vincent wrote in a <a href="/news/2013/11/18/yct-game/">public statement</a>, “If the members of YCT carry out their plan for ‘Catch an Illegal Immigrant,’ they are willfully ignoring the honor code and contributing to the degradation of our campus culture.” Movie star America Ferrera also got involved, leading a campus solidarity march of hundreds of students and activists to protest the event.</p>
<p><b>Further News from the Campuses:</b></p>
<p><b>When Opposing Jihad Is ‘Racist’ </b>[FrontpageMag.com]</p>
<p>“Islamophobia” has broken out at Washington University of St. Louis, sparking outrage, grief, an “open solidarity forum,” and an avalanche of groveling apologies from university administrators.</p>
<p><a href="/2013/robert-spencer/when-opposing-jihad-is-racist/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Rescuing Free Speech at Brown </b>[Intercollegiate Review]</p>
<p>Many students, Americans, and believers in the First Amendment were rightly outraged by the protest of Ray Kelly at Brown University. The NYPD Commissioner was invited to talk on Oct. 29 about the role of proactive policing. But, after a half hour of raucous interruptions, Ray Kelly departed, unable to speak a single sentence.</p>
<p><a href="/index.php/2013/11/15/rescuing-free-speech-at-brown/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>UC Berkeley Student Government Bans Use of the Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’ </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>The student government at the University of California, Berkeley has censured use of the term, “illegal immigrant.”</p>
<p><a href="/us/2013/11/10/uc-berkeley-student-government-bans-use-term-illegal-immigrant/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Some Faculty Demand Skin Color-Based Hiring </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Some faculty at the University of Arizona have said they believe there are not enough people of color employed as professors on campus and are clamoring for administrators to enforce a way to even out the numbers.</p>
<p><a href="/post/15316/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University of Wisconsin Regents Revise Systemwide Speech Code </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>There is good news for free speech at Wisconsin’s public universities, as the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted in October to revise a system-wide discriminatory harassment policy that previously contained language declared unconstitutional by a federal court.</p>
<p><a href="/article/16502.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Brown University Retreats From Free Speech</b> [Frontpagemag.com]</p>
<p>As champion of New York’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy—one riddled with accusations of racial profiling and saddled with a recent federal court ruling against it—police commissioner Raymond Kelly could count on some tough questions from students when he stopped at Brown University last month to talk about proactive policing.</p>
<p><a href="/2013/stephen-beale/brown-university-retreats-from-free-speech/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Committee Created to Deal with In-Class Social Media Presents Latest Research </b>[StateNews.com]</p>
<p>The committee created after <a href="/article/2013/09/going-behind-the-camera">English professor’s anti-republican rants</a> to address the best practices on the use of social media and technology in classrooms, has begun its research — with few findings so far.</p>
<p><a href="/article/2013/11/committee-created-to-deal-with-in-class-social-media-presents-latest-research">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Public College Cites High Cost of Obamacare in Canceling Students&#8217; Health Plans </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>Officials at one one of the nation&#8217;s oldest and most elite historically black colleges are citing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as the reason they have cancelled a school-wide affordable health care plan they had offered students.</p>
<p><a href="/?ID=5235">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Napolitano’s Move from DHS to California Schools Chief Draws Protests </b>[Washington Times]</p>
<p>While many across the political spectrum are happy to see Homeland Security Secretary <a href="/topics/janet-napolitano/">Janet Napolitano</a> leave her job in Washington, some who live on the West Coast say they’d just as soon not see her out there, after it was revealed Friday that she’s poised to take over as head of the <a href="/topics/university-of-california/">University of California</a> school system.</p>
<p><a href="/news/2013/jul/12/napolitanos-move-california-draws-protests/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>At Sinclair, Liability Concerns Trump Students&#8217; Expressive Rights</b> [TheFire.org]</p>
<p>Earlier this semester, when students from Sinclair’s chapter of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) wanted to put together a “free speech wall” event, the group’s event request was denied by the school’s Student Leadership Development office, citing—you guessed it—“liability issues.”</p>
<p><a href="/article/16501.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Students suffer ObamaCare sticker shock as premiums soar, plans get cut </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>While millions of Americans are watching their individual polices get canceled due to ObamaCare regulations, the new health care rules are also having a major impact on college campuses.</p>
<p><a href="/politics/2013/11/18/students-suffer-sticker-shock-from-obamacare/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Texas Student Group Under Fire For &#8216;Catch An Illegal Immigrant&#8217; Game On Campus</b> [FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>The Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT), a student club at the University of Texas at Austin, is holding a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game on the school’s campus to “spread awareness and to spark a political discussion about the issue,” organizers said.</p>
<p><a href="/latino/news/2013/11/18/student-group-under-fire-for-catch-illegal-immigrant-game-on-campus/">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Brown Students Heckle NYC Police Commissioner From the Stage</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ray-kelly.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210191" alt="*May 07 - 00:05*" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ray-kelly-450x336.jpg" width="315" height="235" /></a><em>A regular column dedicated to reporting on the slanted teaching, mis-administration and sheer insanity of our nation’s colleges and universities.</em></p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Top Stories:</span></b></p>
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<li>New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/30/nypd-kelly-heckled-off-stage-at-brown-university-over-stop-and-frisk-policy/">forced from the stage</a> at Brown University by students enraged by the NYC police’s “stop-and-frisk” policy.  Kelly was at the University to give an address on “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City” but dozens of student activists created such an uproar, heckling Kelly with accusations of racism, that he was unable to continue. In defense of their conduct, one Brown student explained that they had earlier petitioned the university to cancel Kelly’s speech, but when administrators refused “we decided to cancel it for them.”  Brown University President Christina Paxson released a statement calling the student’s behavior “indefensible” and “an affront both to civil democratic society and to the university’s core values.”</li>
<li>Afro-beat band Shokazoba is alleging that Hampshire College <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/10/29/did-hampshire-college-group-ban-afro-beat-band-for-being-too-white/">cancelled</a> their planned performance at a campus Halloween party after students posted complaints on Facebook that they were “too white.”  According to the band’s keyboardist “The reason they gave us was that their students felt unsafe. When we asked what made them feel that way, they had no concrete answers and the comments about us from a small group of people were deleted from the Facebook wall.” Ironically, the contract that the band signed actually prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion and other characteristics.
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<li>Administrators at Washington University in St. Louis issued a <a href="http://www.studlife.com/news/2013/11/07/controversial-halloween-photo-spurs-online-dialogue-on-cultural-sensitivity/">harsh denunciation</a> of several students who posted a Halloween photo on Facebook depicting themselves dressed as soldiers with water guns and guarding another student costumed as Osama bin Laden.  The photo was titled “Halloween ’13 Amurrica.”  “The image also is entirely inconsistent with who we are as an institution, our values and the way in which we engage in the world around us,” Wash U. administrators wrote in their statement. A Muslim student on campus, Mahroh Jahangiri, went even further in her condemnation, stating that the photo represents “a broader, more aggressive (and apparently violent) Islamophobia rampant here at WashU and in the United States.”</li>
<li>In response to <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15218/">planned protests</a> against conservative speaker Ann Coulter’s upcoming appearance at the University of Southern California (USC), administrators at the school have tasked the College Republicans, who are hosting the event, with funding security for the event and developing a protest reaction plan.  Left-wing students on campus had attempted to persuade administrators to cancel the event, but were unsuccessful. One student commented on the event’s Facebook page that ““I’m gonna be really surprised if this women makes it out of USC alive lol.”</li>
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<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Further News from the Campuses: </span></b></p>
<p><b>The Slow Death of Free Speech at Harvard</b> [MindingtheCampus.com]</p>
<p>I graduated from Harvard Law School in 1967. Very early in my career, I represented many students in Administrative Board cases growing out of their protests against the Vietnam War. I represented (with Alan Dershowitz) one group of students accused by the Administrative Board of harassment for closely following the Harvard College Dean, Ernest May, 24 hours a day, chanting &#8220;murderer, murderer, murderer.&#8221; Wherever the dean walked in Cambridge, he was followed.  Dean May was consulting at the time for the Department of Defense. This is why the students followed him and chanted.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2013/11/the_slow_death_of_free_speech_.html#sthash.z3jkA813.dpuf">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>School tells Christian to change out of Jesus costume on Halloween</b><strong> [Daily Caller]</strong></p>
<p>School officials at a public high school in the ritzy North Shore suburbs of Chicago told a student he couldn’t wear a Jesus costume on Halloween.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/01/school-tells-christian-to-change-out-of-jesus-costume-on-halloween/#ixzz2jguDNdkP">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Liberal Professors Call on Obama to Seize ‘Unilateral’ Control of Government [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>Three Wisconsin professors have come up with what they think is a brilliant fix for the budget crisis in Washington. They want Obama to violate the constitution and seize dictatorial powers to extend the debt limit, and then call for his own impeachment hearings afterward.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14975/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Ray Kelly booed off the stage at Brown University [NY Post]</strong></p>
<p>Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was shouted off the stage at Brown University Tuesday by more than 100 protesters angry over the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy.</p>
<p><a href="http://nypost.com/2013/10/30/ray-kelly-booed-off-the-stage-at-brown-university/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Brown University Students React to Ray Kelly Controversy </b>[Fox News]</p>
<p>Protesters shut down crime-fighting college lecture [Video].</p>
<p><a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/2800182834001/brown-university-students-react-to-ray-kelly-controversy/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Doomsday Professor: WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE BY 2040 (from Global Warming) </b><strong>[Daily Caller]</strong></p>
<p>In a speech last week at the University of Colorado Boulder Guy McPherson, professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, said humans are “about as special as bacteria,” <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15082/" target="_blank">reports The College Fix</a>. He forecasted the demise of human civilization and, in fact, most human beings by 2040.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/23/doomsday-professor-were-all-gonna-die-by-2040-from-global-warming/#ixzz2jh3rp4k6">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Hillary Heckled in Buffalo: &#8216;Benghazi, Benghazi &#8212; You Let Them Die&#8217; [Breitbart.com]</strong></p>
<p>A speech last night at the University of Buffalo by Hillary Clinton was disrupted by a lone male heckler who <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2474728/You-let-die-Hillary-Clinton-heckled-Benghazi-terrorist-attack-speech-university-students.html">chanted</a>: &#8220;Benghazi, Benghazi &#8212; you let them die!&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/24/Hillary-Heckled-in-Buffalo-Benghazi-Benghazi-You-let-Them-Die">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Did Hampshire College Group Ban Afro-Beat Band for Being &#8216;Too White&#8217;? [Fox News]</strong></p>
<p>Was popular Massachusetts-based Afro-beat band Shokazoba’s performance on the Hampshire College campus canceled because they were “too white”?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/10/29/did-hampshire-college-group-ban-afro-beat-band-for-being-too-white/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Catholic Georgetown Law to Partner with Pro-abortion Groups to Teach Obamacare Class [Campus Reform]</strong></p>
<p>A class at Georgetown Law next semester titled “Regulatory Advocacy: Women and the Affordable Care Act” will force students to work with the pro-abortion rights organization, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), in support of the implementation of Obamacare and advocacy towards abortions.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5196">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>ACLU: Seattle College’s Proposed Free-Speech Rule Unconstitutional  [Seattle Times]</strong></p>
<p>The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU) says portions of a <a href="http://www.seattlecolleges.edu/DISTRICT/newsroom/facilitiesusagechange.aspx" target="_blank">proposed new rule</a> to regulate free speech on Seattle Community College District campuses is unconstitutional.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/10/aclu-says-colleges-latest-proposed-rule-for-free-speech-is-unconstitutional/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Here’s How Obamacare Makes Life Hell for College Profs </b><strong>[Daily Caller]</strong></p>
<p>Universities are cutting back on adjunct professors’ work hours to comply with Obamacare–an unfortunate wake up call for some liberal academics who supported the law.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/27/heres-how-obamacare-makes-life-hell-for-college-profs/#ixzz2jh1CgrfH">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>What I Learned in Comparative Politics: White People Exploit All Others [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p><em>Earlier this year, my Arizona State University government professor told my class that white people are successful because they have exploited all other people, and that Americans are not all born equal because of slavery.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14961/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Parents Slam Pro-Islam Slant in Florida School Textbook [Washington Times]</strong></p>
<p>Hundreds of parents, angry at what they say is a biased student textbook with a decided pro-Islam slant, have launched a campaign demanding equal religious representation and planned a protest at the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/board-of-education/">school board</a> meeting this week.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/5/parents-slam-pro-islam-slant-florida-textbook/#ixzz2jmuQBgjg">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Atheist Students Use Federal Law to Pursue Same Rights as Christians for ‘Secular Safe Zones’ </b>[Washington Times]</p>
<p>A 30-year-old federal law created to protect the right of Christian students to gather now is being used to protect the rights of students with opposite beliefs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/30/atheist-students-use-federal-law-to-pursue-same-ri/#ixzz2jsgbFmZo">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Universities to Students: No &#8216;Offensive&#8217; Halloween Costumes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beware the PC horrors of cowboy, Indian and geisha get-ups. ]]></description>
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<li>Several universities across the country have taken action to warn students not to wear “offensive” costumes on Halloween. At the University of Colorado Boulder, Dean of Students Christian Gonzales <a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/cu-boulder-asks-students-to-avoid-racist-and-stereotype-costumes-parties">urged students</a> to “consider the impact your costume decision may have on others in the CU community.”  Among the costumes she deemed offensive are cowboys, Indians, geishas, “squaws” and those including sombreros or blackface. At the University of Minnesota, the Office of Student Affairs issued an email to students <a href="U%20of%20M:%20Be%20careful%20with%20Halloween%20costumes%20-%20KMSP-TV%20http:/www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/23758980/u-of-m-be-careful-with-halloween-costumes#ixzz2ibL2R27i">cautioning them</a> against costumes that &#8220;inappropriately perpetuate racial, cultural and gender stereotypes.&#8221;  The Multicultural Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison posted a blog, <a href="http://mscthreads.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/does-this-costume-make-me-look-racist/">&#8220;Does this costume make me look racist?&#8221;</a>, which lists several categories of outfits to be avoided including “costumes that appropriate a culture,” those guilty of <b>“</b><strong>Romanticizing a culture” including</strong><b> </b>“’poca-hottie,’ gypsy, belly dancer, and geisha” which “have ties to oppression, rape, and genocide” and those which stereotype cultures including “The Mariachi, the Kimono princess and the kung fu.”</li>
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<li>Dan Kehan, a professor of psychology at Yale University, wrote a <a href="http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/10/15/some-data-on-education-religiosity-ideology-and-science-comp.html?lastPage=true&amp;postSubmitted=true">blog post</a> on a site dedicated to the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School noting that he was “embarrassed” to discover a positive correlation in research he was conducting between respondents who identified themselves as belonging to the Tea Party movement and “science comprehension”— a correlation that he found “surprising.”  Kehan went out of his way to note that “I don&#8217;t know a <em>single person</em> who identifies with the Tea Party.”  Despite his findings, Kehan added “Of course, I still subscribe to my various political and moral assessments&#8211;all very negative&#8211; of what I understand the ‘Tea Party movement’ to stand for. I just no longer assume that the people who happen to hold those values are less likely than people who share my political outlooks to have acquired the sorts of knowledge and dispositions that a decent science comprehension scale measures.”</li>
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<li>University of Arizona associate professor Pat Willerton was <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15003/">caught on video</a> telling his “Politics, Policy and Governing” class that viewers who watch Fox News are less informed than their counterparts who get their news from liberal media sources: “you look at MSNBC, ABC, CNN, all of these cases, the average viewer knows more than the person who doesn’t consult any source. When they survey people who watch Fox News regularly, they know less.”  Willerton exhorted his students to “look at the studies” by which he meant a much-derided 2010 survey by WorldPublicOpinion.org. Prof. Willerton neglected to mention any  criticism of this study or Fox New’s <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/05/truth-fox-news-viewers/">point-by-point refutation</a>.  An Arizona administrator defended Willerton stating that “To all indications, he is conducting the class responsibly and within his authority and expertise.”<b><br />
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<p><b>Further News from the Campuses:</b></p>
<p><strong>Prof: Conservatives Guilty of &#8216;Tyranny&#8217; for Holding the Government &#8216;Hostage&#8217; [CampusReform.org]</strong></p>
<p>A professor from the University of Georgia (UGA) on Friday told a local paper that conservatives were guilty of “tyranny” for holding the government “hostage” during the budget negotiations.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5160">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Lawsuit Claims JCTC Wrongly Fired Official [The Courier-Journal]</strong></p>
<p>A former director of human resources at Jefferson Community and Technical College is suing the college and its president, claiming he was wrongly fired in 2012 for criticizing employment decisions and expressing his conservative and religious beliefs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20131010/NEWS01/310100146/Lawsuit-claims-JCTC-wrongly-fired-official?nclick_check=1">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Yale Professor &#8216;Embarrassed&#8217; to Discover Tea Party Members are Scientifically Literate</b> [CNSNews.com]</p>
<p>You know that line liberals love to lob at the Tea Party: you&#8217;re stupid.  Well, obviously that&#8217;s not the case, nor has it ever been true.  Now, a Yale professor has <a href="http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/10/15/some-data-on-education-religiosity-ideology-and-science-comp.html?lastPage=true&amp;postSubmitted=true" target="_blank">released some new research</a> showing that the so-called &#8220;Tea Party radicals&#8221; are actually scientifically literate.</p>
<p><a href="http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/yale-professor-embarrassed-discover-tea-party-members-are-scientifically#sthash.lIxTTmLx.dpuf">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>UPenn Students Stage Hoax Event to Mock Bristol Palin, Abstinence </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>Fliers on the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s campus announcing a speech by Bristol Palin turned out to be a hoax students created to mock the daughter of former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin who is a an adamant advocate of abstinence.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5175">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Pasadena Professor who Taught Porn Class Resigns [Associated Press]</strong></p>
<p>PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=news&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22Pasadena+City+College%22">Pasadena City College</a> professor who drew protests after inviting porn actors to his class has resigned.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Pasadena-professor-who-taught-porn-class-resigns-4883522.php">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Appeals Court to Consider Calif. School&#8217;s Cinco de Mayo American Flag Ban [Associated Press]</strong></p>
<p>Racial tensions and gang problems were plaguing a Northern California high school when three students arrived for classes in 2010 wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/17/appeals-court-to-consider-calif-school-cinco-de-mayo-american-flag-ban/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Pro-Life Students Ignore Bullying to Stand Up for Babies Killed in Abortion [LifeNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>Tuesday, October 15, 2013 was the ninth annual Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity. Every year thousands of people around the world are willing to give up their voices for those who will never have one because of abortion.</p>
<p>This week was no different.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/18/pro-life-students-ignore-bullying-to-stand-up-for-babies-killed-in-abortion/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Tribe Leads Charge to Scrap Redskins Name [NYPost.com]</strong></p>
<p>VERONA, N.Y. — Last winter, a group of student leaders approached the school board in upstate Cooperstown about changing their team’s mascot — the Redskins.</p>
<p>The movement caught on quickly and by May, Cooperstown Central School was known as the Hawkeyes.</p>
<p><a href="http://nypost.com/2013/10/20/upstate-tribe-leads-charge-to-scrap-washington-redskins-name/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>What I Learned in Comparative Politics: White People Exploit All Others [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p><em>Earlier this year, my Arizona State University government professor told my class that white people are successful because they have exploited all other people, and that Americans are not all born equal because of slavery.</em><em></em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14961/">Read more</a></p>
<p><em></em><strong>Lawsuit! Student Ordered to Stop Handing Out Constitutions on Constitution Day Files Suit [TheFire.org]</strong></p>
<p>FRESNO,<strong> </strong>Calif., Oct. 10, 2013—A student who was ordered by college administrators to stop handing out copies of the Constitution on campus—on Constitution Day—<a href="http://thefire.org/article/16329.html"><strong>filed suit</strong></a> today in federal court. Modesto Junior College (MJC) student and Army veteran Robert Van Tuinen is suing the Yosemite Community College District and MJC administrators for violating his First Amendment rights. Van Tuinen is represented by the law firm of <a href="http://www.dwt.com/offices/WDC/"><strong>Davis Wright Tremaine</strong></a> and is assisted by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16327.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>CSUN professor sparks a debate regarding academic freedom of speech for professors [Daily Sundial]</strong></p>
<p>CSUN mathematics professor David Klein has spent years defending his right to express his views about boycotting the state of Israel. His name was recently brought up during the CSU board of trustees meeting regarding the legality of his website.</p>
<p><a href="http://sundial.csun.edu/2013/10/csun-professor-sparks-a-debate-regarding-academic-freedom-of-speech-for-professors/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Professor Tells Students Fox News Viewers Are Ignorant [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>People who watch Fox News are less informed than people who get their news from other outlets such as MSNBC and CNN, a University of Arizona professor told his upper-level government class recently, according to a recording of the comments obtained by <i>The College Fix.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15003/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Will the Tolerance Agenda Destroy Christian Higher Education? [PJMedia.com]</strong></p>
<p>Last weekend my husband and I visited our son at the little Bible College he attends in Pennsylvania… The school doesn’t promote a political agenda, it simply quietly goes about the business of educating young people who desire a Christian education. As we drove away from the beautiful campus on Sunday, I couldn’t help but wonder how long this school and other conservative Christian schools will survive as the new conformity enforcers continue their march through our country’s institutions.</p>
<p><a href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/10/20/will-the-tolerance-agenda-destroy-christian-higher-education/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>MIT Magazine&#8217;s Funding Restored Following Title IX Concerns [TheFire.org]</strong></p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student newspaper <a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N45/finboardvoodoo.html"><em>The Tech</em></a> reported last Friday that funding to another MIT student publication, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/voodoo/www/"><em>Voo Doo Magazine</em></a>, has been restored after a Title IX complaint against the magazine resulted in MIT’s Undergraduate Association (UA) cutting its funding. But even with <em>Voo Doo</em> back on its feet, UA’s response to the magazine’s content suggests MIT students might be developing worrisome attitudes about speech and censorship.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16358.html">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Professors Blame Racism, Republicans for Government Shutdown</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left marches in step to the expected Party Line.]]></description>
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<li>Professors at campuses across the nation have been quick to lay blame for the government shutdown. And they are not blaming Barack Obama or the Democrats.  University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor Anthea Butler <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5116">claimed on twitter</a> that racism against President Obama was responsible for the shutdown stating that a previous shutdown had taken place under the leadership of “fake black president Clinton” but this time Republicans have a “real black president to mess with.”</li>
<li>Assistant Professor Rachel Slocum at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14860/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isi%2Fgxaj+%28CN+Newslink%29">sent students</a> in her geography class an email stating that “some of the data gathering assignment will be impossible to complete until the Republican/tea party controlled House of Representatives agrees to fund the government” due to the Census website, among other resources, being unavailable. When a student objected to the partisan email, Slocum sent a second email to her class claiming that she hadn’t “meant to be partisan” but still laying out essentially the same argument and further stating that “It’s important to recognize that within the Republican party there is disagreement over how to govern. Many are not happy with this all or nothing style that people on the far right (who refer to themselves as the Tea Party) are advocating.”</li>
<li>Students at Columbia University and Barnard College staging a joint production of <i>The Vagina Monologues</i> have <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/03/white-vaginas-banned-for-ivy-league-production-of-vagina-monologues/#ixzz2h5iaOiUF">banned white students from participating</a> in the performance on the grounds that the show “has historically overlooked the empowerment of women of color, queer women, and trans* folk, among others—often replicating and perpetuating the same systems of power and privilege that prompted the playwright, Eve Ensler, to write The Vagina Monologues in the first place.”  The Facebook page for the event notes that the board’s decision to restrict participation to “self-identified women of color” was unanimous and will “center traditionally marginalized identities within the feminist community, creating a space in which the voices, stories, and experiences of women of color can be heard, acknowledged, and addressed.”</li>
<li>University of Maryland administrator William Dorland, who serves as the director of the university’s Honors College, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/26/school-official-tells-students-trayvon-martin-proved-it-is-legal-to-hunt/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn">stated in an email</a> welcoming students back to campus for the fall term that “This year, we learned that it is legal to hunt down and kill American children in Florida,” alluding to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Dorland continued on to note that, &#8220;This year, the most activist Supreme Court in the history of the United States and radical factions of gun owners, gun manufacturers, and marijuana users are challenging the very fabric of the nation&#8230;”  Despite complaints from some students and faculty about the email, Dorland insisted “In my job here I&#8217;m pretty apolitical.”</li>
<li>A pro-life demonstration held by Indiana University’s newly formed Students for Life chapter outside the student union was <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/27/student-at-indiana-university-vandalizes-pro-life-display-screams-abortion-is-awesome/">greeted with vandalism</a> and hate-fueled comments on behalf of other students at the university.  One student grabbed a number of the crosses which had been placed in the ground to signify deaths from abortion and threw them in the trash can.  When asked to stop he shouted that abortion “was awesome” and “you are all ignorant people and need to keep your beliefs to yourself.”  Another man was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=AJbwbOqqGXQ">caught on video</a> proclaiming “You’re in conflict with the world that I want, which is a world where all your churches burn.”</li>
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<p><b>Further News from the Campuses</b></p>
<p><b>University of Montana Faculty Fight Back Against New Policies [TheFire.org]</b></p>
<p>University of Montana (UM) faculty members continue to voice significant concerns about the university’s new sexual harassment policies and procedures, <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16301.html">approved</a> by the Departments of Justice and Education last week. Faculty are concerned about a provision that requires staff training on sexual assault and requires that the university provide the Department of Justice with the names of faculty who do not attend this training. Further, as <a href="http://freebeacon.com/faculty-sexual-harassment-policy-approved-by-feds-orwellian/"><i>The Washington Free Beacon</i></a> reports today, several faculty members were troubled by the new sexual harassment policy’s apparent presumption of guilt and authorization of punishment for protected speech.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16310.html">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>UW professor: Tea Party supporters racist, sexist, homophobic [KiroTV.com]</b></p>
<p>A University of Washington political science associate professor who conducted research on the tea party said through observations, supporters “tended to be more racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and anti-Obama.”</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/uw-professor-says-tea-party-supporters-tend-be-rac/nbGFn/">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>Anti-Zionism Arrives, in Disguise, at Indiana U. [Frontpage Magazine]</b></p>
<p>Competition for the most licentious definition of the term “criticism of Israel” conceived by the mind of man has for many years been intense.  Given the number of academic scribblers with febrile imaginations who are profoundly troubled by having to share the globe with the state of Israel, this should come as no surprise.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/edward-alexander/anti-zionism-arrives-in-disguise-at-indiana-u/">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>California High School Forces Girl to Remove ‘Violent’ NRA T-shirt, Apologizes [Daily Caller]</b></p>
<p>School officials at Canyon High School in Anaheim, Calif. forced a student to change out of a t-shirt promoting the National Rifle Association.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/04/california-high-school-forces-girl-to-remove-violent-nra-t-shirt-apologizes/#ixzz2h3DAVMvg">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>Professor Tells Students Government Shutdown Is Republicans’ Fault [The College Fix]</b></p>
<p>A professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse recently told her students that Republicans and the Tea Party were to blame for the ongoing government shutdown and the reason they can’t finish their homework assignment.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14860/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isi%2Fgxaj+%28CN+Newslink%29">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>Why the University of Kansas Was Wrong to Suspend Tweeting Professor [Huffington Post]</b></p>
<p>After the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard shootings last week, Professor David Guth of the University of Kansas (KU) sparked national controversy by tweeting the following: &#8220;#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-creeley/university-of-kansas-tweeting-professor_b_3984835.html">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>Universities Nationwide Champion Trayvon Martin, Claim Racism Still Exists [The College Fix]</b></p>
<p>Universities have gone gaga for Trayvon Martin, heralding the young man’s death as an iconic symbol of a racist, unfair America, according to a long and growing list of events hosted on college campuses across America since mid-August.</p>
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<p><b>Professor Tweets Federal Shutdown is About Racism [The Tennessean]</b></p>
<p>A <a title="http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201310021050/NEWS06/310020164" href="http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201310021050/NEWS06/310020164">provocative religion commentator returned Wednesday to Twitter</a> after some accused her of racism over her tweet that the government shutdown had racist underpinnings.</p>
<p>&#8220;Please note that the last govt shut down was with the fake black president Clinton. Now they are have a real black president to mess with,&#8221; Anthea Butler, a University of Pennsylvania associate professor of religious studies and Vanderbilt University graduate, tweeted Monday. And later: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to bed. Sad thing is, when I wake up, these crazy republicans will still be frothing at the mouth while folks sign up 4Obamacare.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/02/anthea-butler-shutdown-racism/2910745/">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>More Universities Now Admitting Undocumented Students [CNN.com]</b></p>
<p>Just last month, the University of Notre Dame said undocumented students who apply for undergraduate admission would now be accepted.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/01/pf/college/undocumented-students/">Read more</a></b></p>
<p><b>U. Texas Students Attacked for Their “Affirmative Action Bake Sale” [CollegeInsurrection.com]</b></p>
<p>There is a saying that you take flak only when over the target.</p>
<p>Given the outrage that conservative students at one Texas institution sparked after their bake sale, the message about the unfairness of affirmative action policies must have hit the mark.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://collegeinsurrection.com/2013/10/u-texas-students-attacked-for-their-affirmative-action-bake-sale/">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>Administration Deals Blow to Campus Censorship [FoxNews.com]</b></p>
<p>Campus speech codes and other regulations governing student behavior should not attempt to infringe on the free speech rights of students, the Department of Education warned colleges and universities.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/09/02/administration-deals-blow-to-campus-censorship/">Read more</a></b></p>
<p><b>After Told He’s Racist, UW-M Student Rejects Further Diversity ‘Training’ [The College Fix]</b></p>
<p>Jason Morgan, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student earning his doctorate there, has told his supervisor he objects to the school’s mandated diversity training for teaching assistants (TAs) because leaders of the first session he attended essentially called him – and the whole class – racist.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14698/">Read more</a></b></p>
<p><b>White Vaginas Banned for Ivy League Production of Vagina Monologues [Daily Caller]</b></p>
<p>At this year’s edition of “The Vagina Monologues” jointly staged by Columbia University and Barnard College, the producers have outlawed the vaginas of white students.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/03/white-vaginas-banned-for-ivy-league-production-of-vagina-monologues/#ixzz2h4sTYhrj">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>Student at Indiana University Vandalizes Pro-Life Display, Screams “Abortion is Awesome” [LifeNews.com]</b></p>
<p>Yesterday, the Students for Life at Indiana University gathered in Dunn Meadow outside of the Student Union as part of the Planned Parenthood Project tour that is visiting over 41 campuses across the United States this fall. This outreach opportunity was widely successful in communicating the truths regarding Planned Parenthood’s abortion business.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/27/student-at-indiana-university-vandalizes-pro-life-display-screams-abortion-is-awesome/">Read more</a></strong></p>
<p><b>Professors Chide University of Kansas for Sanctions over Tweet [Associated Press]</b></p>
<p>University of Kansas anthropology professors are accusing school officials of violating the constitutional rights of a fellow professor by placing him on leave because of a post on Twitter.</p>
<p>Journalism professor David Guth got into hot water for a tweet aimed at the National Rifle Association after the Sept. 16 shootings at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., that left 13 dead.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/28/professors-chide-university-kansas-for-sanctions-over-tweet/">Read more</a></b></p>
<p><b>School Official Tells Students Trayvon Martin Case Proved it is &#8216;Legal to Hunt&#8217; Children [FoxNews.com]</b></p>
<p>An email sent to students by a University of Maryland official that cites the Trayvon Martin shooting as evidence &#8220;it is legal to hunt down and kill American children in Florida&#8221; is being blasted as the latest evidence of a left-wing bias on campus.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/26/school-official-tells-students-trayvon-martin-proved-it-is-legal-to-hunt/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn">Read more</a></b></p>
<p><b>College Set to Host Former-Terrorist Bill Ayers for ‘Queering Education’ Speech [Campus Reform]</b></p>
<p>Bill Ayers, a professor known for engaging in terrorist activities in the 1970s, is set to speak at Gettysburg College (GC) next Tuesday, Campus Reform has learned.</p>
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		<title>Kansas Journalism Prof to NRA: &#8216;Next Time, Let It Be Your Sons and Daughters&#8217; Who Are Shot</title>
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<p><b>Top News:</b></p>
<p>• University of Kansas journalism professor David Guth <a href="http://www.popehat.com/2013/09/20/university-of-kansas-professor-david-guth-suspended-for-repulsive-anti-nra-tweet/">has been suspended</a> from his teaching duties after he responded to the horrific Navy Yard shooting by stating his wish on twitter that the next crazed gunman would kill the children of members of the National Rifle Association. Guth’s tweet read: “#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you.” In a statement released by KU, Ann Brill, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications in which Guff taught, stated, “While the First Amendment allows anyone to express an opinion, that privilege is not absolute and must be balanced with the rights of others. That’s vital to civil discourse. Professor Guth’s views do not represent our school and we do not advocate violence directed against any group or individuals.”</p>
<p>• A textbook used to teach Advanced Placement History at Guyer High School in Denton, <a href="http://www.dailypaul.com/299365/high-school-ap-history-book-rewrites-the-2nd-amendment">incorrectly summarizes the Second Amendment</a>, making it appear that it pertains only to soldiers in a “state militia” and not to ordinary citizens. The summary provided in the text reads, “The people have a right to keep and bear arms in a state militia.” By contrast, the actual Second Amendment to the United States Constitution holds that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The textbook is also used at an indeterminate number of other high schools.</p>
<p>• A student who attempted to pass out copies of the United States Constitution on Constitution Day, September 17, at Modesto Junior College in California was told that his actions <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/19/california-college-bars-student-from-handing-out-copies-constitution/">violated the rules of the College</a>. The student, 25-year-old Robert Van Tuinen, was confronted by an intimidating campus security guard who claimed that he could only do so in a tiny free speech zone, and that he was required to fill out forms to schedule his distribution of materials in advance.  Van Tuinen caught the exchange on video and is being supported by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education which called the incident “depressing and nauseating.” The College claims to be “looking into the incident.”</p>
<p>• The regents of Colorado University, in a unanimous vote, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/sara-dogan/an-unexpected-and-important-education-victory-in-colorado/">passed a resolution</a> adding “political affiliation” to the school’s non-discrimination policy, thereby ensuring that conservative students are protected from professors who might penalize them for their political views in class. The University will also conduct a study to determine whether professors are respectful of students who differ with their (typically leftist) views in the classroom.  These decisions put into place protections that Students for Academic Freedom, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, first attempted to enact in 2003.</p>
<p><b>Further news from the campuses:</b></p>
<p><b>Sex Ed at UCLA</b> [NationalReview.com]</p>
<p>When two freshman sisters at UCLA were told their mandatory orientation on sexual harassment would include a section on sex education, they respectfully requested exemption from that part of the program. As Catholics, Angelica and Bella Ayala did not want to participate in the sex-ed presentation — which discussed, among other topics, how to put on a condom and how to ask someone to have sex with you — because contraception and premarital sex violate their moral code. But the two girls were swiftly reprimanded for their small protest and told they were required to attend another session, even if it violated their conscience.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/358880/sex-ed-ucla-alec-torres">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Professor Claims Navy Yard Shooting Was Staged </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>A Florida Atlantic University communications professor known for conspiracy theories has posted a series of pictures, audio clips, memos and news reports on his blog that he believes adds up to indicate the Navy Yard shooting in Washington D.C. was staged.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14658/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Ultra-liberal Professor Disrupts College Republican Meeting with Vulgar Rant </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>From that great bastion of academic freedom known as Temple University comes another example of a liberal professor bullying conservative students with a bevy of F-bombs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/19/ultra-liberal-professor-disrupts-college-republican-meeting-with-vulgar-rant/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Journalism Professor Says He Hopes for Murder of NRA Members’ Children </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>A journalism professor at the University of Kansas (KU) turned to Twitter on Monday to suggest he would like to see the murder of children of National Rifle Association (NRA) members at the hands of a deranged gunman.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5086">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>The Right Stuff on Campus</b> [NationalReview.com]</p>
<p>It’s easy for conservatives to write off college campuses as impenetrable liberal strongholds and to regard women students in particular as a lost cause. But three efforts to reach young women with conservative ideas — a magazine, a speaker recruitment, and a campus-based organization — demonstrate that conservatives can make some headway.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/358548/right-stuff-campus-karin-agness">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>High School Textbook Rewrites Second Amendment–Literally </b>[Breitbart.com]</p>
<p>The authors of United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination have taken it upon themselves to change the Constitution of the United States. The high school textbook contains a summary of each Amendment that alters the initial intent in which they were created.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/18/School-Textbook-Changes-Constitution">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Professors Launch Howard Zinn Read-In To Protest Conservative Viewpoints </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>An observance in adoration of the late historian Howard Zinn – a controversial Marxist known to spew anti-American, anti-Western opinions in his textbooks and an admitted social activist - has been organized by Purdue University professors, who have asked their peers across the country to take part in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/howardzinnreadin">Howard Zinn Read-In this November.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14636/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>&#8216;Students of Color Only&#8217; </b>[InsideHigherEd.com]</p>
<p>A Texas Christian University professor reached out in an e-mail to a group of students he deemed to be “of color” to help them succeed in his class. But the move backfired with at least one student, who was insulted at being included for her perceived ethnicity.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/16/texas-christian-professor-sets-debate-invitation-minority-students#ixzz2fmBQ8WlY">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Middle East Map Stirs Controversy on Campus</b> [Daily Aztec]</p>
<p>On the first week of school San Diego State students enrolled in an Arabic 101 class received a map of the Middle East highlighting Arabic-speaking countries.</p>
<p>Days later, a call for action was issued by <a href="http://myemail.constantcontact.com/ACTION-ALERT--SDSU-Professor-Wipes-Israel-Off-the-Map-.html?soid=1109317602219&amp;aid=AymQfQRqhmY">Stand With Us,</a> a pro-Israeli nonprofit organization, to take a stance against the map, which had omitted Israel and labeled the territory as Palestine.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2013/09/middle-east-map-stirs-controversy-on-campus/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>College Set to Host Former-Terrorist Bill Ayers for ‘Queering Education’  Speech </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>Bill Ayers, a professor known for engaging in terrorist activities in the 1970s, is set to speak at Gettysburg College (GC) next Tuesday, Campus Reform has learned.</p>
<p>According to the event’s <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/img/CROBlog/5103/ayersgettysburg.jpg"><b>poster</b></a>, Ayers will deliver a speech on “queering education” which will be  sponsored by nGender, a program at GC that meets bi-weekly to “dialogue on gender issues,” according to the <a href="http://www.gettysburg.edu/about/offices/college_life/cps/student/dialogue/"><b>school’s official website</b></a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5103">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>California College Forbids Passing Out Constitutions &#8230; On Constitution Day</b> [TheFire.org]</p>
<p>MODESTO, Calif., September 19, 2013—In a stunning illustration of the attitude taken towards free speech by too many colleges across the United States, Modesto Junior College in California told a student that he could not pass out copies of the United States Constitution outside the student center on September 17, 2013—Constitution Day.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16246.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Community Considers Political Speech on First Amendment Day </b>[Daily Tar Heel]</p>
<p>For sophomore Lea Palmer, the right to free speech comes with a risk.</p>
<p>“I’d be worried about walking back into a classroom after saying I was conservative, just because of the looks I’d get from people,” said Palmer, who is a member of UNC’s College Republicans.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2013/09/political-views-0924">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University&#8217;s Young Democrats President is a Convicted Child Sex Offender </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>The president of the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) Young Democrats chapter is a convicted child sex offender, Campus Reform has learned.</p>
<p>Bill  “Billy” Wayne Johnson, who is listed on the <a href="https://utpa.collegiatelink.net/organization/youngdems"><b>school’s official website</b></a> as the primary contact  for the student organization, was registered as a sex offender in April of 2010, according <a href="https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/SexOffender/PublicSite/Application/Search/Individual.aspx?IND_IDN=5999771&amp;SearchType=Name&amp;ResultsUrl=%2FSexOffender%2FPublicSite%2FApplication%2FSearch%2FResults.aspx%3FSearchType%3DName%26FirstName%3DBilly%26LastName%3DJohnson%26Birthdate%3D%26Sex%3D0%26Race%3D0%26CountyCode%3D0"><b>to Texas DPS SEX Offender registry.</b></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5097">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>An Unexpected and Important Education Victory in Colorado</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 04:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado University shields students from political harassment by their professors.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/paf.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-204772" alt="paf" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/paf.jpg" width="320" height="240" /></a>In a unanimous 8-to-0 vote, the Colorado University regents have passed a resolution to add “political affiliation” to the school’s non-discrimination policy, thus protecting students from political harassment by their professors, including punitive retributions for expressing their views in class. Colorado U. is also moving forward with a study, approved by the regents in June, which will evaluate whether professors currently show proper respect for the differing (usually conservative) opinions of their students. This path-breaking resolution was the work of the two courageous regents who sponsored the resolution, Sue Sharkey and Jim Geddes.</p>
<p>The resolution amends Article 10 of the UC “Laws of the Regents” to state, “The University of Colorado does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, sexual orientation, GENDER IDENTITY, GENDER EXPRESSION or veteran status, POLITICAL AFFILIATION, OR POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY in admission and access to, and treatment and employment in, its educational programs and activities.”</p>
<p>It goes on to add that, “The university is committed to the principle of non-discrimination and does not tolerate harassment on any basis, including sex, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, GENDER IDENTITY, GENDER EXPRESSION or age, POLITICAL AFFILIATION, OR POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.” [Words in capital letters are newly added to the policy].</p>
<p>Speaking on the resolution’s impact, Regent Sharkey commented that it “really does send a very good statement about the University of Colorado, and in a very positive way. … We’re not going to discriminate based upon a person’s political philosophy, political affiliation, gender identity or gender expression.”</p>
<p>This critical victory in the fight to protect the academic freedom of students and faculty has been a long time in coming. In the fall of 2003, the David Horowitz Freedom Center launched a campaign in Colorado to promote an Academic Bill of Rights for students to achieve a similar result. The core principles of the bill were adopted in a Joint Resolution of the Colorado legislature but because of the opposition of the teacher unions and the Democratic Party were never enforced.</p>
<p>In the spring of 2004, the reform campaign went national as the Freedom Center’s newly created organization, Students for Academic Freedom, was activated on 100 campuses nationwide. Over the next seven years many victories were achieved in educating the general public about the problem of political persecution of conservative students. But equally many defeats were suffered as the powerful teacher unions and their Democratic Party allies went into action and blocked every single reform the Freedom Center was able to put in place. The unions were even able to remove all the regents who voted to adopt the Academic Bill of Rights at Illinois’ College of DuPage, and to expunge the principles of intellectual diversity they had put in place as well.</p>
<p>In the summer of 2004, the Students for Academic Freedom campaign approached 88 university presidents, including the president of Colorado University, and asked them to revise their anti-discrimination policies to include political, ideological, and intellectual diversity.  Only two of the 88 responded and neither of them was willing to consider the proposal.</p>
<p>Now, nearly 10 years later, two Colorado University regents have persuaded their colleagues, including several Democrats, to achieve that goal. Bravo, Sue Sharkey and Jim Geddes.</p>
<p>“I am thrilled with this result,” commented David Horowitz. “I applaud Sue Sharkey and Jim for waging what I am sure was a lonely fight among their fellow Republicans as well as Democrats, to do the right thing and begin to restore an academic environment to our beleaguered university system. I have spoken to thousands of students in almost fifty states and heard their tales of professorial discrimination, harassment and outright intimidation. I have known first-hand the determined opposition to academic freedom of the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers, and have felt the sting of their slanders. So I know the kind of backbone it took to get this resolution passed. What they have achieved lifts some of the burden of frustration from my shoulders, and I look forward to other universities adopting this needed reform in the coming months and years.”</p>
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		<title>Michigan State Prof.: Republicans Have &#8216;Raped This Country&#8217;</title>
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<p>Top Stories:</p>
<p>• Michigan State University has suspended Professor William Penn for the current semester after he was caught <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUi0rUEc_wI&amp;feature=player_embedded">on video</a> <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/03/professors-anti-republican-classroom-tirade-caught-on-video-they-are-a-bunch-of-dead-white-people-who-raped-the-country/">ranting against Republicans</a> in the classroom. While teaching his Literatures, Cultures, Identities course on August 29, Penn accused Republicans of attempting to suppress the black vote and characterized them as “cheap” and claiming “they have already raped this country and gotten everything out of it they possibly could.”</p>
<p>• The College Republicans at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill are <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5037">speaking out</a> after the finance committee of the Student Congress cut their annual budget by more than 75% while doling out substantial increases to two left-wing campus groups. CR chairman Nate Pencook protested the decision, telling the Student Congress: “I really came to encourage you on two magic words: intellectual diversity.” The budget cut means that the CRs may not be able to bring as many conservative speakers to campus as planned.</p>
<p>• Prof. Andrea Hatcher, a professor of political science at Sewanee: The University of the South, revealed on twitter that an Obama-advocacy organization sought to use her <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/28/college-prof-claims-obama-group-tried-to-use-her-to-recruit-students/">to recruit students</a> to publicly praise President Obama’s policies. “I don’t shill for any interest group or party,” Hatcher declared in response. The organization, called Organizing for Action, has its roots in the Obama presidential campaigns, and did not return calls from journalists.</p>
<p>• After a student at Florida State University posted <a href="http://thefire.org/torch/#16196">racially offensive comments</a> on a university-wide social media network, university administrators responded by declaring that “Florida State has zero tolerance for racist speech, no matter which medium is used to communicate the message” and promised to “take appropriate action within University policy.” The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is looking into the case, noting that “FSU’s professed ‘zero tolerance’ stance toward racist speech” is “plainly irreconcilable” with its obligation as a public institution to uphold the First Amendment.</p>
<p>Further news from the campuses:</p>
<p><b>Pro-Palestinian Campus Campaign Asks Students To Join ‘Right Side’ </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Students for Justice in Palestine, a group of faculty and students dedicated to furthering the cause of the Palestinian people, recently launched a new advocacy and membership drive campaign at San Diego State University to coincide with the start of the fall semester.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14540/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Campus Chaos: Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee </b>[Intercollegiate Review]</p>
<p>Universities like to present themselves as defenders of free speech and free association. But this veneer of tolerance starts to crumble when conservatives’ or religious believers’ rights are threatened.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.intercollegiatereview.com/index.php/2013/08/26/campus-chaos-free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>The Cheat Goes on at Harvard </b>[NYPost.com]</p>
<p>Cheaters never win — but they get into Harvard! Nearly half of the school’s incoming freshmen admitted to cheating on homework, exams or other assignments in their young academic careers, according to a survey by the Ivy League institution’s student newspaper.</p>
<p><a href="http://nypost.com/2013/09/06/the-cheat-goes-on-at-harvard/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>UNC Slashes College Republican Budget, Gives More To Anarchists and Feminists </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Student government representatives in charge of doling out campus club funding requests at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill have decided to slash the amount sought by the College Republicans to bring in two conservative guests speakers this fall, but meanwhile agreed to allocate more money to groups involving anarchists and feminists.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14452/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Michigan State University Suspends Professor Over ‘Offensive’  Anti-Republican Tirade Caught on Video</b> [TheBlaze.com]</p>
<p>A Michigan State University professor who was caught on <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/03/professors-anti-republican-classroom-tirade-caught-on-video-they-are-a-bunch-of-dead-white-people-who-raped-the-country/">video ranting about “racist” Republicans</a> has been suspended for the remainder of the semester, <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5040">Campus Reform</a> reports.</p>
<p>Professor William Penn’s tirade was “inappropriate, disrespectful and offensive,” Dean Karen Wurst of the College of Arts &amp; Letters said in an email to students Thursday.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/05/michigan-state-university-suspends-professor-over-offensive-anti-republican-tirade-caught-on-video/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>LSU’s ‘Free Speech’ Zones Raise A Disturbing Question: Are We Losing The War? </b>[Forbes.com]</p>
<p>This fall I will celebrate 12 years defending the basic rights of students on college campuses across the country, and in that time my organization, the <a href="http://thefire.org/">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education </a>(FIRE), has had some great successes. But while we win battle after battle, sometimes I fear we are losing the war. Time and time again I see examples of how campuses are teaching a generation, primarily through example, how to think like censors and how to apply all the wrong lessons about what it means to live in a free society.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/09/10/lsus-free-speech-zones-raise-a-disturbing-question-are-we-losing-the-war/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>‘Zero Tolerance’ for Racist Speech Raises First Amendment Concerns at Florida State </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>At Florida State University, a controversy has erupted in response to a student’s posting on the social media platform Vine.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/torch/#16196">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Campus Leaders Call Conservative Women Unimpressive, Unworthy </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Conservative female investigative reporters Katie Pavlich and Ann McElhinney are unimpressive nonacademics whose speaking honorariums are too high and credentials too unremarkable to pay to have them give talks at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill this fall, members of the school’s student government have agreed.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14500/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>College Republicans Cry Foul After Receiving Less Money in Budget than Liberal Groups [Campus Reform]</b></p>
<p>College Republicans (CR) at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) are upset after the student government approved a budget plan on Tuesday night which gave them less money than two rival liberal groups.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5037">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Duquesne University Kicks Geraldo Rivera Off Panel Because of ‘Selfie’ </b>[Daily Caller]</p>
<p>Duquesne University has rescinded an invitation to Fox News journalist Geraldo Rivera to moderate an academic panel on the Kennedy assassination.</p>
<p>The reason? Rivera recently snapped a shirtless photograph of himself and sent it to his Twitter followers — a move that violates Duquesne’s Catholic principles, according to a university spokesperson.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/01/duquesne-university-kicks-geraldo-rivera-off-panel-because-of-selfie/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>FemSex Workshop Returns to Campus Despite Scrutiny from Alumni, Faculty </b>[Marquette Tribune]</p>
<p>After receiving academic sponsorship from the University Honors Program, FemSex, a weekly student workshop centered on the discussion of female sexuality and reproduction, is returning to Marquette’s campus this fall. The program underwent scrutiny last year and eventually lost support from university administration.</p>
<p><a href="http://marquettetribune.org/2013/09/10/news/controversial-female-sexuality-workshop-returns-to-campus-natalie/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>College Prof. Claims Obama Group Tried to Use Her to ‘Recruit’  Students </b>[TheBlaze.com]</p>
<p>Organizing for Action, the political nonprofit that grew out of the Obama presidential campaigns, sought to use at least one college professor to recruit students for publicly advocating on behalf of President Barack Obama’s policies, one instructor claimed on Twitter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/28/college-prof-claims-obama-group-tried-to-use-her-to-recruit-students/">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Hate Messages at Oberlin Revealed to be Hoax by Obama-Supporting Leftist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The perpetrators of a series of alleged bias incidents at Oberlin College have been caught.]]></description>
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<p><b>Top Stories:</b></p>
<p>• The perpetrators of a series of <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/22/meet-the-privileged-obama-supporting-white-kids-who-perpetrated-cruel-oberlin-race-hoax/#ixzz2d2Zs6BY2">alleged bias incidents</a> at Oberlin College have been caught—and one of them is a fervent leftist who helped organize a voting drive for President Obama and is a member of a group called Ithaca White Allies Against Structural Racism. The incidents, which included posting racist, anti-Semitic and antigay messages and graffiti around the campus and harassing a female student, sparked a one-day cancellation of classes so that students could attend a teach-in on the evils of racism and homophobia.</p>
<p>• Administrators at the University of Denver <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/24/daniel-boone-like-mascot-for-denver-college-deemed-too-offense-by-administration/#ixzz2d2gx1hy7">have refused calls</a> by students and alumni to reinstate “Denver Boone,” a Daniel Boone-like figure who wears a coon-skin cap, as the University mascot on grounds that he doesn’t adequately represent the diverse student body at UD. “Boone was a polarizing figure that did not reflect the growing diversity of the UD community, but rather was an image that many women, persons of color, international students and faculty members found difficult to relate to as defining the pioneering spirit,” Chancellor Robert Coombe stated in a letter to the university community.</p>
<p>• Harvard University <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4979">has hired</a> former democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, as a “visiting fellow” for the upcoming fall semester, despite numerous scandals surrounding Villaraigosa’s campaigns and time in office.  Among these blots on his record are the 31 ethics violations alleged by the Los Angeles Ethics Commission during his 2003 bid for City Council and his use of nearly half a million dollars in federal stimulus funds to refit the mayoral yacht.</p>
<p>• The president of Biola University, a private Christian school in Southern California, has <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14404/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isi%2Fgxaj+%28CN+Newslink%29&amp;utm_content=FeedBurner">issued an apology</a> to pro-life nursing student Diana Jimenez who faced threats from a campus security guard when she attempted to display an image of an aborted fetus on campus.  The security guard had ordered Jimenez to leave campus grounds and stated that he could prevent her from attending her graduation the following week if she did not comply.</p>
<p><b>Further news from the campuses: </b></p>
<p><b>How Oberlin Manufactured the Hate-Crime Hoax of the Year</b><br />
[Michelle Malkin]</p>
<p>Busted. Stone-cold busted. Just as I suspected, “progressive” pranksters at Oberlin College have been definitively <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2013/08/22/see-i-told-you-so-oberlin-hoax-confirmed/">unmasked</a> as the perpetrators of phony campus “hate crimes” that scored international headlines in March. The blabbermouth academic administrators who helped fuel the hysteria are now running for cover.</p>
<p><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2013/08/23/how-oberlin-manufactured-the-hate-crime-hoax-of-the-year/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Coastal Carolina University Bans the Local Alternative Newspaper from Campus </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>It is generally accepted wisdom that colleges and universities stopped acting in loco parentis (in the place of parents) in the 1960s. But I’m beginning to wonder about that, given the latest campus attack on the First Amendment ostensibly to protect college students from bad influences.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/torch/#16138">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Conservative Professor Writes Devastating Response to Liberal Hater </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Mike Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington recently received a note from a student informing him that he is “the biggest embarrassment to higher education in America.” Adams’s response is, well, quite an entertaining read.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14384/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isi%2Fgxaj+%28CN+Newslink%29&amp;utm_content=FeedBurner">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Furor at U. of Sydney Over Photos of Student Vulvas</b> [InsideHigherEd.com]</p>
<p>The University of Sydney is debating the censorship of the cover of a student newspaper &#8212; <i>Honi Soit</i> &#8212; which was forced to place black bars over portions of 18 photographs of students&#8217; vulvas. The Student Representative Council, which publishes the paper, ordered the addition of the black bars, citing Australian laws on obscenity, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-uni-newspaper-taken-off-shelves-over-female-genitalia-cover-20130821-2sbcb.html"><i>The Sydney Morning Herald</i></a><i> </i>reported.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/08/22/furor-u-sydney-over-photos-student-vulvas#ixzz2d2qhyTKs">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Queer Feminism: White Supremacy, Colonialism, Contributed to Trayvon Martin Killing, Says Prof </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>Capitalism and white supremacy both played roles in the killing of Trayvon Martin, a public university professor said last Thursday.</p>
<p>Dr. Erica R. Meiners, a professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at Northeastern Illinois University, made the remarks while speaking on a panel of self-described “queer feminist scholars.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5012">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Five Pillars of Islam Display Removed From Elementary School After Viral Photo Resulted in Nationwide Backlash </b>[TheBlaze.com]</p>
<p>School administrators have removed a large, controversial illustration of the Five Pillars of Islam, after a picture of the display went viral over the weekend and drew unwanted attention to the school.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/20/five-pillars-of-islam-display-removed-from-elementary-school-after-viral-photo-resulted-in-nationwide-backlash/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>North Carolina Becomes First State to Guarantee College Students&#8217; Right to Attorney </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>RALEIGH, N.C., August 23, 2013—Today, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16132.html">signed a bill</a> granting public university students in the state facing non-academic disciplinary charges the right to an attorney. The law, which is the first of its kind nationwide, ensures that students attending the state’s public colleges and universities possess rights similar to those already enjoyed by North Carolina’s K–12 students under state law.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16141.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>NAACP, Dartmouth Administrators, to Regulate Future Frat Party Themes </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>The National Association of Colored People (NAACP), Dartmouth College student groups, and administrators are working to implement policies that will prevent students from throwing parties with offensive themes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4998">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Daniel Boone-Like Mascot for Denver College Deemed Offensive by Administration </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>Is a cartoon-like college mascot reminiscent of Daniel Boone &#8212; right down to the legendary coonskin cap &#8212; racist, sexist or otherwise offensive?<br />
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/24/daniel-boone-like-mascot-for-denver-college-deemed-too-offense-by-administration/#ixzz2d2ghFoLc">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Colleges Shouldn&#8217;t Suppress Students&#8217; Speech, Thought </b>[The Post Crescent]</p>
<p>The purpose of an educational institution is to cultivate thought, reason and the knowledge necessary to be a productive part of society.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20130825/APC06/308250087/Colleges-shouldn-t-suppress-students-speech-thought?odyssey=tab%7Cmostpopular%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Calif. Governor Signs Transgender Bathroom Bill </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>California has become the first state in the nation to allow boys and girls access to the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice — regardless of their gender.</p>
<p><a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/calif-governor-says-boys-can-use-girls-bathrooms.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Professor Refuses Mandatory Sexual Harrassment Training </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Walter Williams, an economics professor at George Mason University, rebuked his campus and all academic elite on college campuses in his latest syndicated column.</p>
<p>As usual, he did it with style and flair, explaining why he plans to refuse to submit to his school’s reportedly mandatory in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures training.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millikin University stands behind professor despite revelation that he slaughtered his family.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jk.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-201016" alt="jk" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jk-285x350.jpg" width="285" height="350" /></a><i>A regular column dedicated to reporting on the slanted teaching, mis-administration and sheer insanity of our nation’s colleges and universities.</i></p>
<p><b>Top Stories:</b></p>
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<li>Upon learning the startling and disturbing news that award-winning Professor James St. James, the head of their Department of Behavioral Sciences at Millikin University in Illinois, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/10/illinois-university-standing-behind-professor-who-murdered-family-in-167/#ixzz2biWXejvh">gunned down his entire family</a> as a teenager and spent years in a mental institution, the University has refused to take action against the professor.  St. James was found not guilty of his crimes by reason of insanity and later changed his name after being released from psychiatric care. The revelations about his criminal past came to light only last month.</li>
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<li>The left-wing media seized on a story <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2013/08/08/on-how-discredited-mcdonald-statistic-fueled-leftist-media/#ixzz2biZofW1Z">purportedly proving</a> that McDonalds could double wages for all its workers by raising the cost of its menu items only 17%.  The Huffington Post, which first ran the story, was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/mcdonalds-salaries_n_3672006.html">forced to retract</a> it when further investigation revealed that the “study” it was based on was written by Arnobio Morelix, an undergraduate at the University of Kansas who falsely identified himself as a researcher for the school and cited the work of another student as a “research assistant.” Despite these revelations, some media outlets still refused to retract or correct their coverage.</li>
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<li>Lizarda Urena, a mother of students at Concord High School in New Hampshire, has been told that <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/11/new-hampshire-district-tells-mom-can-no-longer-pray-on-school-steps/#ixzz2bik4sns7">she will no longer be able to recite Bible passages</a> on the steps of the school as she has been doing since February. Urena’s prayers on the steps were inspired by reports that bullets were found in one of the school’s toilets. She prays for the safety of the students at the school.</li>
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<li>George Mason University’s campus chapter of “Students Against Israeli Apartheid” <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4970">hosted a “Day of Anger”</a> outside of the headquarters of the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, DC. Dozens of students attended. One George Mason student participating claimed that “Jews have had their golden age under Muslim rule,”  and said that he did not support “the continuation” of Israel “because of what it means for my people and the perpetuation of the cruelty they have had for my people.”</li>
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<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Further News from the Campuses:</span></b></p>
<p><b>The Left’s Attack on Hillsdale College</b> [NewsMax.com]</p>
<p>Liberals hate Michigan’s Hillsdale College, which not only celebrates a decidedly conservative point of view, but also galls them by refusing to take government funding — which means they have no way of threatening Hillsdale and trying to force it to fall in line.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/HermanCain/Hillsdale-College-Arnn-President/2013/08/05/id/518727#ixzz2bifD5b00">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>University of Pennsylvania Professor: &#8216;God is a White Racist&#8217; [Examiner.com]</strong></p>
<p>In the wake of the not guilty verdict against George Zimmerman some decry personal racism by the jury members, others blame institutional racism in the American judicial system, while at least one university professor blames The Almighty for being &#8220;a white racist god&#8221; as reported by the <a href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/07/15/university-professor-says-god-is-a-white-racist-79744" target="_blank">BizPac Review</a> on July 15, 2013.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/university-of-pennsylvania-professor-god-is-a-white-racist">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>‘Jews Had Their Golden Age Under Muslim Rule’ Says Anti-Israel Student Protester [Campus Reform]</strong></p>
<p>Dozens of students decried the state of Israel at a “Day of Anger” rally outside the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) headquarters in Washington D.C., on Thursday.</p>
<p>“Jews have had their golden age under Muslim rule,”  said Mohammad Abou-Ghazala, a student from nearby George Mason University, who identified as a Muslim.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4970">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>School District To Launch ‘Trayvon Martin Dialogues’</b> <strong>[The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>“Trayvon Martin dialogues” are slated to launch at middle and high schools across San Diego, with elected officials of the 132,000-student public school district saying they hope the talks give students a chance to vent their frustrations into something positive.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14223/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Public University Students Unable to Answer Questions from Test Designed for 8th Graders [Campus Reform]</strong></p>
<p>Students at Denver’s Metropolitan State University were unable to answer questions taken from a basic knowledge test administered to 8th graders in 1912, which was reprinted by Smithsonian Magazine earlier this month.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4903">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>New Hampshire District Tells Mom She Can No Longer Pray on School&#8217;s Steps [Associated Press]</strong></p>
<p>CONCORD, N.H. –  The longstanding argument over school prayer is being tested in New Hampshire, where a school district has told a mother she can no longer pray on the steps of her children&#8217;s high school.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/11/new-hampshire-district-tells-mom-can-no-longer-pray-on-school-steps/#ixzz2biTIvpod">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Ark. Attorney General Says School Must Name Teachers in Gun Program [Associated Press]</strong></p>
<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. –  An Arkansas school district that trained more than 20 teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on campus through a program that faces questions over its legality was wrong to make secret the names of the employees, the state&#8217;s top attorney said Monday.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/06/ark-ag-school-must-name-teachers-in-gun-program/#ixzz2biUgEdyP">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Fat-Shaming Professor Faces Censure From University</b><strong> [InsideHigherEd.com]</strong></p>
<p>Geoffrey Miller, a psychology professor, has been censured by the University of New Mexico, two months after he sent out a <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/04/outrage-over-professors-twitter-post-obese-students" target="_blank">fat-shaming Twitter post</a> that caused an angry Internet uproar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/07/fat-shaming-professor-faces-censure-university#ixzz2biiwM0VK">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Illinois University Backs Psych Professor Even After Learning He Murdered Family in 1967 [FoxNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>An Illinois university is standing behind an award-winning psychology professor, despite the new revelation he gunned down his parents and sister when he was a teenager, spent time in a mental institution and changed his name.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/10/illinois-university-standing-behind-professor-who-murdered-family-in-167/#ixzz2biW5dXe0">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>What It&#8217;s Like to be a Conservative on a Liberal College Campus [Townhall.com]</strong></p>
<p>Usually a website with a bit of a liberal bias, <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/what-its-like-being-conservative-on-a-liberal-campus">Buzzfeed</a>, came out with an article of memes expressing what it feels like to be a conservative college student on a liberal campus. They actually got this one right! Only being a few years out of college myself and having attended a very liberal school, Buzzfeed definitely is spot on with this story.</p>
<p><a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/heatherginsberg/2013/07/16/fun-what-its-like-to-be-a-conservative-on-a-liberal-college-campus-n1642074">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Top 20 Schools With the Most Conservative Student Bodies in the U.S. [Red Alert Politics]</strong></p>
<p>Students headed to these 20 schools this fall might want to make sure to pack their National Rifle Association membership cards, as according to <a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings.aspx" target="_blank">The Princeton Review</a> these are among the most conservative universities in the nation.</p>
<p><a href="http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/08/09/top-20-schools-with-the-most-conservative-student-bodies-in-the-u-s/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Moving to the Taft Mansion, a Yale Conservative Group Seeks a National Presence </b>[NY Times]</p>
<p>NEW HAVEN — <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williamhowardtaft">William Howard Taft</a> was not born there; he did not live or even die there. But for a few years, the 27th president did own the house at 111 Whitney Avenue in New Haven, and that association has conferred on the structure a certain historical gravitas.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/nyregion/moving-to-the-taft-mansion-a-yale-conservative-group-seeks-a-national-presence.html?_r=1&amp;">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Campus Roundup: Mandatory Reading of Sexually-Explicit Graphic Novel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What $40K of university funds will be devoted to in Charleston.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/College_Campus_Walk_H.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-199318" alt="College_Campus_Walk_H" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/College_Campus_Walk_H.jpg" width="332" height="241" /></a><i>A regular column dedicated to reporting on the slanted teaching, mis-administration and sheer insanity of our nation’s colleges and universities.</i></p>
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<li>The state-funded College of Charleston, located in Charleston, South Carolina, <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4895">has assigned all its incoming freshmen</a> to read “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel, a graphic novel which contains pictorial images of lesbian sex, commentary on masturbation, and accounts of pedophilia. In total, the College has spent $39,000 for the distribution of this book to freshmen and will pay another $13,000 for a speech by the author this fall. Participation in the summer reading program is mandatory.</li>
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<li>Terri Bennett, a nursing student at Pima Community College in Arizona, was <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/07/26/nursing-student-suspended-after-complaining-about-spanish-speakers/#ixzz2aabYeS7Q">suspended from classes and labeled a bigot</a> after she complained that her fellow students’ failure to speak English in the classroom was making it difficult for her to learn. Bennett is now suing the College claiming that its actions violated her First Amendment right to free speech.</li>
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<li>Amherst College in Massachusetts, long known as one of the most left-leaning liberal arts campuses in the nation, added several &#8220;diversity seats&#8221; to their Student Senate, which are reserved for groups that have been &#8220;historically silenced.&#8221; But when conservative student Ted Hertzberg applied for one of the seats citing the fact that only 2 out of 160 professors at the school are registered Republicans, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2002/11/22/student-senate-diversity-seats-exclude-conservatives/#ixzz2aadp9nDl">he was rejected</a>. The other four applicants for the seats— an international student, a gay student, a Latino student and an Asian student—were all accepted.</li>
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<li>The Freedom Center’s <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/sara-dogan/freedom-center-protests-of-uc-student-regent-candidate-bring-campus-anti-semitism-to-light/">public opposition to Sadia Saiffudin</a>, an extreme anti-Israel candidate for UC Student Regent, has sparked a national discussion on how Saiffudin’s views may disqualify her from her new position and the growing problem of anti-Semitism on college campuses.</li>
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<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Further news from the campuses:</span></b></p>
<p><strong>Dozens of Purdue Faculty Chide Mitch Daniels, but He Stands His Ground [TheCollegeFix.com]</strong></p>
<p>Dozens of faculty members at Purdue University have chided campus President Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana, for what they contend is his lack of support for academic freedom.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14111/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isi%2Fgxaj+%28CN+Newslink%29&amp;utm_content=FeedBurner">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Student Suspended After Complaining About Spanish-Speaking Classmates [FoxNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>Diversity is widely regarded as an important goal in higher education. But, according to one student, a commitment to diversify conflicted with her learning.</p>
<p><a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/07/26/nursing-student-suspended-after-complaining-about-spanish-speakers/#ixzz2aaN3FUct">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Meese v. Keene&#8217; Sheds Light on Danger of the &#8216;Blueprint&#8217; [TheFire.org]</strong></p>
<p>In the <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16050.html">continuing debate</a> over the new federal <a href="http://thefire.org/article/15835.html">“blueprint”</a> for university sexual harassment policies, some have argued that broadly defining sexual harassment as “any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature”—including “verbal conduct”—is unproblematic because the definition is supposedly “only” for campus reporting purposes.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16066.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Freedom Center Brings Campus Anti-Semitism to Light</b></p>
<p>The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s public opposition to an extreme anti-Israel candidate for UC Student Regent has helped to trigger a national conversation about the growing problem of anti-Semitism on college campuses.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/sara-dogan/freedom-center-protests-of-uc-student-regent-candidate-bring-campus-anti-semitism-to-light/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Majority of Americans Oppose the Use of Affirmative Action in College Admissions [RedAlertPolitics.com]</strong></p>
<p>Americans largely believe that students should be accepted to college based on their merits, and not their racial or ethnic heritage.</p>
<p><a href="http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/05/31/majority-of-americans-oppose-the-practice-of-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Student Senate &#8216;Diversity Seats&#8217; Exclude Conservatives [FoxNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>BOSTON –  These days, defining diversity seems to be the big issue on campus.</p>
<p>But at Amherst College in Massachusetts, they&#8217;re doing more than talking about it. They&#8217;re adding &#8220;diversity seats&#8221; to the 32-member Student Senate for groups that have been &#8220;historically silenced.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2002/11/22/student-senate-diversity-seats-exclude-conservatives/#ixzz2aaNa6O7R">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Cedarville University Under Federal Investigation For Possible Title IX Violations </b>[HuffingtonPost.com]<b></b></p>
<p>Cedarville University, a Christian institution in southwest Ohio, revealed late last week it is under review by the U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/cedarville-university-investigation_n_3665361.html?ir=College">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>You Won’t Believe What Teachers Plan to Tell Kids about Trayvon Martin [Daily Caller]</strong></p>
<p>In the wake of the verdict in the Trayvon Martin shooting, several teachers said they would invoke mob justice, vigilantism and the idea that Florida law allows people to hunt and kill black kids when discussing the case with their students.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/22/you-wont-believe-what-teachers-plan-to-tell-kids-about-trayvon-martin/#ixzz2aaRcY33E">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Public College Assigns Comic Book on Lesbian Sex, Child Molestation as Mandatory Freshman Reading [CampusReform.org]</strong></p>
<p>Faculty and administrators at the College of Charleston (CofC) have assigned all freshman students a graphic sex memoir as part of their mandatory 2013 summer reading.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4895">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Former Purdue Student Defends Daniels In Wake Of Scandal [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, currently president of Purdue University, has been verbally flogged by some over the news that, during his time in office, <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14005/" target="_blank">he worked to scale back leftist propaganda in the classroom.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14065/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isi%2Fgxaj+%28CN+Newslink%29&amp;utm_content=FeedBurner">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Book Shows Radical Teachers How to Mix Traditional Math with ‘Social Justice’ Political Lessons [EAGNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>MILWAUKEE – It’s said that misery loves company. Perhaps that’s one reason a group of gloomy, radical teachers is trying so hard to poison the minds of the nation’s K-12 students with their anti-American, anti-free market ideas.</p>
<p><a href="http://eagnews.org/new-book-shows-teachers-how-to-mix-traditional-math-with-social-justice-political-lessons/">Read more</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 04:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How our protest against an anti-Israel extremist for UC Student Regent sparked a national conversation.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/student_uc_regent.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-199033" alt="student_uc_regent" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/student_uc_regent.jpg" width="270" height="218" /></a>The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s public opposition to an extreme anti-Israel candidate for UC Student Regent has helped to trigger a national conversation about the growing problem of anti-Semitism on college campuses.</span></b></p>
<p>UC Berkeley student Sadia Saifuddin was recently appointed student regent-designate for the University of California over protests by the Freedom Center and a few others who opposed her nomination on the grounds that her extreme anti-Israel views and activism with organizations known for their anti-Semitism make her unfit to represent all students in the UC system. The controversy sparked by the Freedom Center’s opposition has become national news.</p>
<p>During her years at Berkeley, Saifuddin was a leader in two Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations, the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine, which regularly invite anti-Semitic speakers to UC campuses and sponsor an annual hate-week known as “Israeli Apartheid Week.” She was also an active participant in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement which calls for the destruction of the Jewish state and led vicious attacks on Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz who has dedicated herself to protecting Jewish students from anti-Semitism on UC campuses.</p>
<p>In an open letter sent to the University of California Board of Regents, the Freedom Center’s chairman, David Horowitz, and director of campus campaigns, Jeffrey Wienir, urged the Board to reconsider their selection: “Appointing Sadia Saifuddin to the Board of Regents would be an offense to the ‘Principles of Community’ for UC Berkeley which are supposed to be core values in the UC system, and which call on UC students to ‘respect the differences as well as the commonalities that bring us together and call for civility and respect in our personal interactions,’’ the letter stated. “How is it respectful for the organizations that Sadia Saifuddin represents to sponsor ‘Israeli Apartheid Weeks’ which support terrorist organizations like Hamas and call for the destruction of the Jewish state?”</p>
<p>Despite the regents’ failure to reconsider their nomination of Saifuddin, the Freedom Center’s protests garnered widespread press coverage of Saifuddin’s questionable ties to anti-Semitic organizations and helped to raise awareness of the often-threatening environment confronting Jewish students on UC campuses.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/uc-regents-confirm-muslim-student-board-19691331">covering the story</a>, the Associated Press framed their coverage in light of the Freedom Center’s objections: “The University of California&#8217;s governing board confirmed its first Muslim student member Wednesday, despite some Jewish groups&#8217; claims that she marginalized Jewish students and promoted an anti-Israel agenda.” The AP story about Saifuddin’s controversial nomination was picked up by dozens of other newspapers and websites.</p>
<p>Numerous other publications and websites including <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/UC-regents-back-outspoken-Muslim-student-4671413.php"><i>The San Francisco Chronicle</i></a>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-regents-uc-student-representative-sadia-saif-20130718%2C0%2C7402394.story"><i>The Los Angeles Times</i></a>, <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23688198/muslim-uc-regent-sadia-saifuddins-confirmation-is-heartening"><i>The San Jose Mercury News</i>,</a> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170061#.UfXThaxt42A">IsraelNationalNews.com</a>, <a href="http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/69053/u.c.-regents-name-bds-proponent-to-student-spot/">JWeekly.com</a> and <a href="http://www.universityherald.com/articles/3921/20130718/uc-appoints-muslim-american-woman-board-jewish-groups-oppose-decision.htm"><i>The University Herald</i></a> picked up the story that Saifuddin’s confirmation was controversial because of her anti-Israel leanings and associations, with many directly citing the Freedom Center’s stance.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-regents-uc-student-representative-sadia-saif-20130718%2C0%2C7402394.story">an editorial</a> in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, the editors offered their congratulations to Saifuddin but noted that the “one glitch” in her resume is her outspoken criticism of Israel which the editors labeled “the third rail of UC politics.” The <i>Times</i> editorial went on to quote David Horowitz’s statement in his open letter that &#8220;If [Saifuddin] were confirmed, it would set a dangerous precedent to encourage anti-Semitism on campus, which is already a big problem in the UC system.&#8221;</p>
<p>We may have lost the battle against Saifuddin’s confirmation as UC Regent. But by sparking a national conversation about how her anti-Israel activism and leadership in organizations known for their anti-Semitism should disqualify her for such a position, we are a step closer to winning the war.</p>
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		<title>Campus Roundup: George Mason University to Offer Course on Trayvon Martin</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/College_Campus.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197606" alt="College_Campus" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/College_Campus.jpg" width="266" height="193" /></a><i>A regular column dedicated to reporting on the slanted teaching, mis-administration and sheer insanity of our nation’s colleges and universities.</i></p>
<p><b>Top Stories:</b></p>
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<li>Even before the Trayvon Martin verdict was announced on July 13, George Mason University, located in Fairfax, VA, announced that it planned to <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/353275/university-offer-class-trayvon-martin-dimitrios-halikias">offer an academic course</a> on Martin’s life and death in the context of racial politics. The course, titled “Race and Politics, Trayvon Martin,” will be taught by Prof. Rutledge M. Dennis, who teaches in the African-American Studies, Sociology and Anthropology departments. According to the <a href="http://soan.gmu.edu/courses/1844/course_sections/13174">course description</a>, the class “will examine how racial and cultural politics were driving forces in the public debates and controversies surrounding such cases as the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama, Robert Williams in North Carolina, Emmett Till in Mississippi, Medgar Evers in Mississippi, Martin Luther King in Georgia, Angela Davis in California, O.J. Simpson in California, Rodney King in California, and currently, Trayvon Martin in Florida.”</li>
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<li>Audrey Jarvis, a student at Sonoma State University in California, was working at freshman orientation on June 27<sup>th</sup> when an employee of the University’s Associated Students Productions <a href="http://www.sonomastatestar.com/online-exclusive/cross-necklace-controversy-sweeps-ssu-campus-1.3048038#.UeQiUaxt42B">asked her to remove her crucifix necklace</a> claiming that it might offend or intimidate the freshmen they were recruiting. The employee, Erik Dickson, told Jarvis that he had received a letter from the chancellor of California State University stating a policy against wearing religious items.  Five days after Jarvis was asked to remove her cross, SSU President Ruben Armiñana denied the existence of such a policy and issued an apology stating “Somebody made a mistake…you are free to display whatever religious instrument you wish.”</li>
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<li>Asked by a reporter whether he supported the Republican plan to lower interest rates on student loans, a <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4836">Georgetown student responded</a> “I don’t think I support anything the Republicans do. I think all of them should probably be put to death.” The response was caught on video.</li>
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<li>Tulane University political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry who made headlines several months ago for her statement that “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents” reacted to George Zimmerman’s acquittal by stating publicly that the verdict <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/13992/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isi%2Fgxaj+%28CN+Newslink%29&amp;utm_content=FeedBurner">made her wish she didn’t have sons</a>: “Last night, I thought, I live in a country that makes me wish my sons away. Wish that they don’t exist, because it’s not safe.”</li>
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<li>UC-Berkeley Law Professor Jonathan Simon <a href="http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/07/15/race-and-reasonable-doubt-notes-from-the-sanford-fla-verdict/">reacted to the Zimmerman verdict</a> by declaring that the jury suffered from racial prejudice, even if they might not be aware of it: “Imagine that Trayvon was a 17 year old female, a 54 year old white male, or even a 17 year old white male. In all of those cases the prosecutors would have had an easier job convincing the jury that Zimmerman acted recklessly in firing his gun… In convincing the jury that George Zimmerman was reasonable in fearing for his life, the defense had a wind at its back that would not have been there had Trayvon been female or white.”</li>
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<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Further News From the Campuses:</span></b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4836"><b>Georgetown student says all Republicans should be ‘put to death’</b></a> [CampusReporm.org]<b></b></p>
<p>A Georgetown student advocated for the extermination of all Republicans on Tuesday when asked if he supported the GOP’s plan to reduce student loan interest rates.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4836">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>University of Alabama at center of free speech debate [TuscaloosaNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>TUSCALOOSA | A pro-abortion rights student organization at the University of Alabama and a civil liberties group have asked the university to re-evaluate its grounds-use policy, arguing that it is contradictory and unconstitutional.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20130711/news/130719960">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/353275/university-offer-class-trayvon-martin-dimitrios-halikias">University to Offer Class on Trayvon Martin</a> [NationalReview.com]</strong></p>
<p>The Trayvon Martin case is already making its way into the classroom. This fall, George Mason University in Virginia <a href="http://soan.gmu.edu/courses/1844/course_sections/13174">will offer</a> a sociology class called “Race and Politics, Trayvon Martin.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/353275/university-offer-class-trayvon-martin-dimitrios-halikias">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Looking for Bias [InsideHigherEd.com]</b></p>
<p>Does the University of Colorado need to do a survey to determine that many at the Boulder campus are liberal? And does a liberal-leaning faculty and student body mean that anything is wrong there? Those are among the questions raised by last week&#8217;s Board of Regents vote to look into political diversity at the system&#8217;s flagship at Boulder and its three other campuses.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/27/university-colorado-plan-survey-political-climate-draws-mixed-reactions#ixzz2Yr8gEfIf">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Cross Necklace Controversy Sweeps SSU Campus [Sonoma State Star]</strong></p>
<p>Sonoma State made national headlines earlier this week in response to an Associated Students Productions employee’s request for Audrey Jarvis, a junior working freshman orientation, to remove her cross necklace. Jarvis is now working with Liberty Institute, a nonprofit legal organization defending religious liberty, to seek a religious accommodation from SSU.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sonomastatestar.com/online-exclusive/cross-necklace-controversy-sweeps-ssu-campus-1.3048038#.UeBG76xt42A">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Faculty Report on Academic Freedom in FAU &#8220;Step on Jesus&#8221; Controversy: &#8220;Senior Administrators Dismally Failed&#8221; [New Times Blog]</strong></p>
<p>The FAU faculty senate&#8217;s academic freedom committee has released its first report on the school&#8217;s &#8220;Step on Jesus&#8221; controversy of last spring. Meticulous and detailed, its conclusions are a blistering indictment of the administration of former school President Mary Jane Saunders.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2013/07/fau_faculty_report_step_on_jesus_deandre_poole.php">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16028.html">University of Central Arkansas Reviews &#8216;Speech Code of the Month,&#8217; Promises to Revise Policy</a> [TheFire.org]</strong></p>
<p>In a victory for free speech on campus, the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) has promised to eliminate a speech code that FIRE identified as our “Speech Code of the Month” for July 2013.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16028.html">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Learn About Trayvon Martin on Your Own Damn Dime [CampusReform.org]</b></p>
<p>Campus Reform learned last week that George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, VA plans to offer a class on Trayvon Martin this fall. Given GMU’s reputation <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4796"><strong>as bastion for leftist thought</strong></a><strong>, </strong>this class will no doubt be used to canonize the slain Florida youth while demonizing the now acquitted George Zimmerman. No doubt<a href="http://soan.gmu.edu/people/rdenni1"> <strong>Professor Rutledge Dennis</strong></a> of the Sociology and Anthropology Department plans to tear apart the verdict, arrived at by 6-person jury, and press upon the way he understands the narrative from his perch in the ivory tower in Fairfax Station.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4844">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>It Takes a Collectivist [Townhall.com]</strong></p>
<p>Months ago, in my <a href="http://thisiscommonsense.com/2013/04/12/it-takes-a-collectivist/">Common Sense e-letter</a>, I took issue with Tulane University Professor Melissa Harris-Perry — who hosts an eponymous MSNBC weekend show — for declaring, in one promotional ad, that “we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”</p>
<p><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2013/07/07/it-takes-a-collectivist-n1635336">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Prof ‘Wishes Sons Away’ In Wake of Zimmerman Verdict [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>Tulane University political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry, who hosts a show on MSNBC, said after the George Zimmerman not-guilty verdict that she wished she didn’t have sons because they’re not safe in America, an apparent long-held belief of hers.</p>
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<p><strong>California Schools Will Train Kids to Sell Obamacare [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>There’s something disturbingly Orwellian about this, when the state comes directly at your kids in order to “educate” them in support of a left-wing political agenda.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/13930/">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Ball State Sparks Controversy For Hiring Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design Proponent [HuffingtonPost.com]</strong></p>
<p>SOUTH BEND, Ind. &#8212; Ball State University in Indiana is facing scrutiny for hiring a science professor who wrote a book on intelligent design, a move that comes after another professor at the state college was accused of teaching creationism.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/ball-state-guillermo-gonzalez_n_3573972.html?utm_hp_ref=college">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Canned for Speaking Out? [InsideHigherEd.com]</b></p>
<p>It&#8217;s not unheard-of for a college to tell a faculty member partway through a probationary period before tenure that things just aren&#8217;t working out. And that may well be why Weber State University failed to rehire Jared Lisonbee, a professor of child and family studies. But the timing of his termination – after he and his wife spoke out against plans to name a new family program after a Mormon leader who has expressed controversial views on gays, women and intellectuals – has raised suspicion about what motivated the decision.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/15/professors-termination-raises-questions-about-free-speech-weber-state#ixzz2ZApjMkWK">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards [Commentary]</b></p>
<p>Perhaps the Obama administration was not expecting a great public outcry this spring when it unveiled a “blueprint” for how campuses across the nation will henceforth need to handle complaints of sexual misconduct. Under the scheme as announced on May 9, colleges must crack down on a wide array of sexually oriented conduct defined as “unwelcome” to one or more persons, including many instances of what the feds quaintly term “verbal conduct,” better known as “speech.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/sentence-first-verdict-afterward/">Read More</a></p>
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<li>The regents of the University of Colorado <a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_23502551/cu-regents-debate-political-diversity-perception-liberal-bias">moved to go forward</a> with an independent survey to determine whether there is sufficient respect for political diversity on the Boulder campus. A second measure, which would have banned discrimination based on political affiliation or belief, was considered by the regents but postponed for further review.</li>
<li>Members of the University of Buffalo’s chapter of Students for Life have <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/02/university-buffalo-charged-pro-life-student-group-650-in-unconstitutional-fees/">filed a lawsuit</a> against the University charging that administrators violated their constitutional rights by forcing them to spend over $600 on unnecessary security for a campus event because university officials deemed it “controversial.”</li>
<li>An instructor at Florida Atlantic University, who was barred from campus last fall after instructing students in his class to <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/24/florida-atlantic-rehires-adjunct-center-controversy-over-class-exercise">write the word “Jesus” on a piece of paper and then step on it</a>, has been rehired by the university. Administrators came to the conclusion that the instructor had done nothing wrong.</li>
<li>Foundation for Individual Rights co-founder Harvey Silvergate has <a href="http://portland.thephoenix.com/news/154615-silenced-on-campus/#ixzz2XoYdMk7q">released his picks</a> for the 16<sup>th</sup> Annual “Campus Muzzle” awards – the campuses in New England featuring the worst record on free speech. Among his picks for this year are Yale University, which was singled out because its leaders “cheerfully accepted restrictions of academic and political freedom on its new Singapore campus” and Tufts University, which refused to allow the Tufts Christian Fellowship to enact standards requiring candidates for leadership to follow “basic Biblical truths of Christianity.”</li>
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<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Further News from the Campuses:</span></b></p>
<p><strong>CU Regents Approve Political Diversity Climate Survey [Boulder Daily Camera]</strong></p>
<p>The University of Colorado regents approved a measure Thursday requiring an independent climate survey to help determine whether the school respects political diversity.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_23502551/cu-regents-debate-political-diversity-perception-liberal-bias">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Yale, NYU Get an ‘F’ in Academic Freedom [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>It is the worst kind of hypocrisy to see a radical liberal administrators of elite U.S. universities, the type who normally speak of nothing but “tolerance” and “diversity,” turn around and throw all those principles out the window in order to expand among the most corrupt, and illiberal regimes of the world.</p>
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<p><strong>FAU Professor in Jesus-Stomping Controversy Reinstated, Will Teach Online Courses [Daily Caller]</strong></p>
<p>The Florida Atlantic University professor who was placed on administrative leave over a now-infamous Jesus-stomping assignment now has his job back.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/25/fau-professor-in-jesus-stomping-controversy-reinstated-will-teach-online-courses/">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back to Lower Court, Keeps Challenge Alive [FoxNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Monday sent a major challenge to affirmative action back to the lower court, leaving the issue unresolved for at least another year. In a 7-1 decision, the court technically ruled against the University of Texas, which was facing a challenge from a white woman who sought to overturn the school&#8217;s use of race-based affirmative action.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/24/supreme-court-punts-on-affirmative-action-case-sends-issue-back-to-lower-court/#ixzz2XodAQk1g">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>University at Buffalo Charged Pro-Life Student Group $650 in &#8216;Unconstitutional Fees,&#8217; Lawsuit Alleges </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>How much does free speech cost?</p>
<p>The University at Buffalo charged a pro-life student group nearly $650 in “unconstitutional fees” to exercise its freedom of speech during an event in April, a lawsuit alleges.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/02/university-buffalo-charged-pro-life-student-group-650-in-unconstitutional-fees/#ixzz2XwKxcjPF">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Inside the Environmentalist Echo Chamber [Dartmouth Review]</strong></p>
<p>If you haven’t yet encountered the divestment movement, you will soon. Ever since its inception in the pages of <em>The Rolling Stone</em> last summer, it has crept up on college campuses throughout the nation, leaving bewildered administrators and conservatives in its wake.</p>
<p><a href="http://dartreview.com/dartlog/2013/7/2/print-inside-the-environmentalist-echo-chamber.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isi%2Fgxaj+%28CN+Newslink%29&amp;utm_content=FeedBurner">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Victory for Academic Freedom: Wisconsin Governor Vetoes Unconstitutional Ban on Faculty Speech [TheFire.org]</strong></p>
<p>Yesterday, in a victory for academic freedom, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-makes-57-vetoes-signs-68-billion-wisconsin-budget-b9944038z1-213757881.html">issued a line-item veto</a> to strike an unconstitutional ban on faculty speech and research from the Wisconsin state budget. A late addition to the budget proposal, the broad, vague ban would have prohibited University of Wisconsin faculty “from doing any work related to” the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization.</p>
<p><strong>Silenced on Campus: The College Muzzles [The Portland Phoenix]</strong></p>
<p>If freedom of speech, the right to associate with whomever one might wish, and other constitutionally protected liberties had a home, you would think that it would be on the nation&#8217;s college campuses. But that assumption, sad to say, is dead wrong. As this list drawn from campuses around New England demonstrates, liberty — as defined by the American constitutional tradition — is under constant assault.</p>
<p><a href="http://portland.thephoenix.com/news/154615-silenced-on-campus/#ixzz2XoYdMk7q">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Public University Unfairly Raising Grades of Black Students, Say Three Former Faculty Members [CampusReform.org]</strong></p>
<p>School administrators at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) are systematically raising the final grades of African-American students, three ex-faculty members told Campus Reform last month.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4819">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Conservatives Seek New Groups Inspired by Federalist Society in Graduate Schools </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>A new conservatism is beginning to emerge on some college campuses, spurred in part by opposition to President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature health care law.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/01/conservatives-seek-new-groups-inspired-by-federalist-society-in-graduate/#ixzz2YBYmeZtU">Read More</a></p>
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<li>In an open letter sent to the University of California Board of Regents, David Horowitz <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz-and-jeffrey-wienir/open-letter-to-the-uc-regents/">urged the Board to reconsider</a> its selection of Berkeley student Sadia Saifuddin as UC Student Regent for the 2014-2015 school year, noting her leadership in multiple campus organizations tied to Islamic terrorism which promote anti-Semitism and a threatening environment for Jewish students on UC’s campuses. “Appointing Sadia Saifuddin to the Board of Regents would be an offense to the ‘Principles of Community’ for UC Berkeley which are supposed to be core values in the UC system, and which call on UC students to ‘respect the differences as well as the commonalities that bring us together and call for civility and respect in our personal interactions,’’ Horowitz wrote to the Regents.</li>
<li>Sadia Saiffudin also figures in another recent campus scandal—the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/richard-cravatts/no-free-speech-for-exposers-of-campus-anti-semitism/">persecution of UC Santa Cruz lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin</a> who has dedicated herself for years to defending Jewish students from campus anti-Semitism.  Saiffudin has led these attacks on Rossman-Benjamin through her role in pro-Palestinian campus groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Muslim Students Association, which slandered the lecturer as an instigator of “Islamophobic hate speech” and “inflammatory, hostile and racist assumptions” for her efforts to counter the hostile and threatening tactics of these same pro-Palestinian groups on campus.</li>
<li>Professor Linda Brunton at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/professor-orders-students-to-support-gay-rights.html">crossed the line from instruction to indoctrination</a> when she ordered students in her psychology class to wear “Rainbow Coalition” ribbons expressing support for gay rights and defamed those who oppose gay marriage as “uneducated bigots” who “attack homosexuals with hate.”</li>
<li>Conservative pundit Caleb Bonham revealed the extent of anti-conservative sentiment on college campuses by asking students at the University of Colorado – Boulder to <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4770">sign an oversize thank-you card addressed to the IRS</a> expressing their gratitude for the institution’s targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups. Many of the student signatories eagerly offered their own commentary explaining why the IRS demonstrated good judgment by harassing conservative groups.</li>
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<p><b>Links to these and other recent campus stories may be found below:</b></p>
<p><b>Open Letter to the UC Regents </b>[Frontpagemag.com]</p>
<p>Dear Regent: We are concerned by your nomination of Sadia Saifuddin, a leading figure in two organizations that conduct an annual hate campaign against the state of Israel and Jewish students on UC campuses to be a University of California student regent for 2014-15.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz-and-jeffrey-wienir/open-letter-to-the-uc-regents/">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>No Free Speech for Exposers of Campus Anti-Semitism </b>[Frontpagemag.com]</p>
<p>In her controversial book, <i>From Time Immemorial,</i> which examined the false narrative concerning the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Joan Peters referred to something she identified as “turnspeak,” “twisted rhetoric artfully aimed at the hearts and minds of the West, originated by the Arabs, and rivaling the Soviets, who are veterans of ‘semantic infiltration’ and the word war. Just as, in their lexicon, totalitarianism translates into ‘democracy,’ and degradation becomes ‘freedom,’ so has the flawed but democratic Israel been branded ‘Zionist imperialist’ and ‘racist.’” First used in 1939 to describe German propaganda after its invasion of Czechoslovakia, “turnspeak” in that instance was used to invert truth, enabling Germany to blame the Czechs for the aggression and belligerency they themselves were perpetrating.</p>
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<p><b>Professor Orders Students to Support Gay Rights </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>A Tennessee community college professor ordered her students to wear ribbons supporting gay rights and said those who believed in the traditional definition of marriage are just “uneducated bigots”  who “attack homosexuals with hate,” according to a legal firm representing several of the students in the class.</p>
<p><a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/professor-orders-students-to-support-gay-rights.html">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>College Students Thank IRS for Illegally Targeting Conservative Groups</b><b> </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>Students at the University of Colorado – Boulder (UCB) signed an enormous thank you card to the Internal Revenue Service for its apparent harassment of conservative groups during the lead-up to President Obama’s reelection. In the viral video, posted on YouTube Tuesday, conservative pundit Caleb Bonham asked students to sign the large card that read “Thank you IRS! Tea Party Deserves it!”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4770">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>University of Colorado to Survey on Respect for Political Diversity </b>[Denver Post]</p>
<p>After a vigorous three-hour discussion on intellectual diversity, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted unanimously Thursday to conduct a survey to determine whether political discrimination exists on the Boulder campus.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23506124/university-colorado-survey-respect-political-diversity">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Survey: Most Commencement Speaker Controversies Targeted Conservatives </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Of the Top 10 biggest controversies surrounding graduation speakers this commencement season, seven specifically targeted conservatives or business leaders, a survey by The College Fix found.</p>
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<p><b>Texas High School Silences Valedictorian&#8217;s Microphone During Speech on Constitution, Report Says </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>A Texas high school silenced its Valedictorian’s microphone during his speech when he diverted from his pre-approved remarks and instead spoke about the Constitution.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/08/texas-high-school-silences-valedictorian-microphone-during-speech/#ixzz2VphgPpeu">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Academia Downplays IRS Scandals </b>[Campus Report]</p>
<p>Although academics have never been in short supply to discuss political scandals, there seems to be a caveat: They tend to be crises in which Republicans are the alleged malefactors. Thus, from Watergate to Iran-Contra, professors have been ubiquitous in offering commentary on current events. In striking contrast, they seem to have been on sabbatical while the Obama Administration emerged at the vortex of three controversies in May involving the IRS, Benghazi and the monitoring of AP stories and sources. Maybe it was finals week.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.academia.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Campus-Report-June-2013.pdf">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Campus Bans Guns, Tells People to Nod at Attackers </b>[DailyCaller.com]</p>
<p>In lieu of guns, people who find themselves in dangerous situations at or near the University of Arkansas at Little Rock should defend themselves by glancing and nodding, said a university safety expert.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/06/campus-bans-guns-tells-people-to-nod-at-attackers/">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>German University Switches to Feminine Professor Titles for Men </b>[The Local]</p>
<p>The University<b> of Leipzig has voted to adopt the feminine version of the word for &#8220;professor&#8221; as its default. In German <i>Professorin</i> refers to a female professor while <i>Professor</i> is the male equivalent.</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thelocal.de/education/20130605-50095.html">Read More</a></p>
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		<title>Defending Indoctrination as ‘Academic Freedom’</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the in-class radical rantings of USC's Dr. Richard Dekmejian.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Dekmejian.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-189163" alt="Dekmejian" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Dekmejian.jpg" width="245" height="326" /></a>University administrators are supposed to be the guardians of academic freedom at our institutions of higher education. They are charged with ensuring that faculty are granted the right to teach and students the right to learn. But the response of USC’s provost who defended a professor caught on tape ranting about his radical and extreme views in class shows how school officials can misinterpret and misuse this essential doctrine to allow indoctrinators free reign.</p>
<p>The professor in question, Dr. Richard Dekmejian, is a professor of political science at USC who specializes in national security issues, Middle East studies, terrorism and other related topics.  The twenty-minute classroom recording was made in Fall 2012 by USC student Tyler Talgo, who may face consequences for his actions since USC’s Student Code of Conduct strictly prohibits making such recordings—a fact that USC’s provost was sure to note in her statement on the incident.</p>
<p>Even at a leftist bastion such as USC, Professor Dekmejian can be considered an extremist. In a mere twenty minutes of recorded classroom footage, Dekmejian repeatedly hurls insults at every Republican president since Reagan, claiming that they were “lazy” and that they “lied to the American people,” while praising Jimmy Carter for “still going around doing good things.”  He also blames Israel for the radicalization of Hamas and claims that Islam deserves praise for its treatment of Jews and Christians.</p>
<p>Dekmejian’s radical rantings skewer so many conservative targets that it is difficult to find any cohesion to his lecture. On the Bush Administration’s motives for starting the war in Iraq, Dekmejian states, “Now the oil companies wanted the United States to take Iraq and establish a pro-America dictatorship there because that&#8217;s the only way you&#8217;re going to run Iraq. Talking about democracy as you go into Iraq as an excuse, you must be stupid or lying. That&#8217;s the Bush Administration.”</p>
<p>He characterizes “right wing Christian evangelicals” as “Get[ting] happy on television every time there&#8217;s a conflict in the Middle East” because “they think that the Book of Revelations tells them that the messiah&#8230;Jesus is going to come&#8230; all we need is a war in the Middle East involving Israel and the Arabs.”</p>
<p>In discussing FDR’s presidential run, Dekmejian mocks Herbert Hoover&#8217;s contrary argument against government intervention and statement that “in time the system will correct itself”  opining, “hmmmmm&#8230;.sure.”</p>
<p>Towards the end of the recording, Dekmejian unleashes his venom on Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. “There&#8217;s going to be an election in Israel, by the way, because Netanyahu wants to come back even more powerful,” he tells the class. “God help the globe. And Israel. And the neighbors.”</p>
<p>He also offers the following explanation for Palestinian aggression towards Israel: “Hamas is the radicalized wing of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt in the Gaza Strip and guess who was among the people that helped its radicalization? Israel! Not only by not creating a Palestinian state but by encouraging the most extremist Muslim Brotherhood chairs.” Unsurprisingly, Dekmejian fails to mention that Hamas and its Islamist allies have rejected the offer of a Palestinian state multiple times since they will only be satisfied by Israel’s total annihilation and have served as the aggressor in the Middle East conflict since Israel’s founding.</p>
<p>Dekmejian also lauds Islam as superior to Christianity, noting that</p>
<blockquote><p>“Under Sharia law, traditionally Muslims recognize three religions: Themselves (Islam) and the two religions that they came out of, that preceded them, Judaism and Christianity. So therefore Christians and Jews have certain rights, not equality, but they have certain rights…the great kings of Christian Europe, they persecuted Jews. They didn&#8217;t give them that kind of benefit. At least Islam did.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Dekmejian fails to note for his class that Sharia law’s recognition of Jews and Christians allows them to levy a special tax on them and to seize their synagogues and temples without provocation or that many Christians suffer relentless persecution and fear for their lives in Islamic regimes such as Pakistan and Egypt, not to mention the Palestinian controlled territories.</p>
<p>Dekmejian even manages to disparage opponents of global warming theory, commenting,</p>
<blockquote><p>“When [hurricane] Sandy came along and sand clogged and water clogged all of the East Coast of the United States…even those guys who don&#8217;t believe in climate change, uhhhhhhh, they’re saying now wait a minute. But they can’t allow the climate change, I mean people who don’t believe in climate change they don’t care if Manhattan goes to underwater.”</p></blockquote>
<p>What climate change has to do with his academic areas of expertise he doesn’t bother to explain – but then why should he since his provost thinks he has license to say anything he wants in class.</p>
<p>All these attacks occurred in a mere twenty minutes. Imagine what his students must hear in the course of a semester!</p>
<p>Official university evaluations of Dekmejian’s teaching are not released to the public but one can get a good idea of his students’ opinions by visiting the online rating site, ratemyprofessors.com. A spate of recent reviews rate his teaching as being of “poor quality” and include such comments as “Unorganized, rambles, does not provide any time for input, questions, or discussion” and “he didn’t teach, [he] was trying to brainwash with political propaganda.”  Another comment states explicitly, “This is the worst teacher. I would never recommend him… He obviously has his own agenda. Why was he ever hired in the first place?” Keep in mind that most of his students are typical left-leaning college students who are accustomed to one-sided teaching.</p>
<p>Rather than expressing concern at Dekmejian’s use of his podium to indoctrinate impressionable students with his radical views – which is a clear violation of their academic freedom, University Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Garrett defended the professor, claiming that his conduct is protected under academic freedom, which merely demonstrates her own ignorance of the principles laid down in the 1915 Declaration on the Principles of Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure and its more recent iterations:</p>
<p>“Faculty members are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subjects,” Garrett said in a written statement – a clear falsehood since an astronomy professor telling students the moon is made of green cheese would soon be facing disciplinary hearings. “The freedom to take unpopular positions and the freedom to express those positions publicly are at the foundation of what it means to be a faculty member of a university… One of the most important principles of an academic community has been that academic inquiry and discussion be free from censorship or undue outside control.” This provost however did not utter a word in defense of conservative speakers like Ann Coulter or David Horowitz who had to visit her campus under armed guard because of the hostility to unpopular positions at her politically correct university.</p>
<p>Garrett did pointedly observe that the Student Code of Conduct “expressly prohibits” students from taping their professors without consent – a policy which is a thinly veiled attempt to prevent the public and tuition paying parents from seeing the academic depths to which USC’s liberal arts faculty has plunged in recent years.</p>
<p>Provost Garrett is correct that USC’s academic freedom policy protects the right of faculty to freely discuss their subjects in class. But this freedom is not without corresponding responsibilities, in particular the responsibility to act professionally and not to indoctrinate their students in the kind of half-witted prejudices that are on display in the video of Dekemejian’s rant.</p>
<p>USC’s academic freedom policy clearly states,</p>
<blockquote><p>“As educational officers [faculty] should remember that the public may judge their profession and the University by their utterances. Hence, they should at all times be accurate, should exercise appropriate restraint, should show respect for the opinions of others, and should make every effort to indicate that they are not speaking for the University.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Only an academic provost in today’s university system could fail to see that Dekemejian violated this policy.</p>
<p>The Dekmejian incident makes the second time in recent months that a USC faculty member has been caught on tape abusing his position to indoctrinate students with leftist diatribes. Rather than concerning themselves with the students who violate school policy to record these indoctrinators, Provost Garrett and USC’s administration would do better to spend their efforts reigning in their out-of-control faculty and re-familiarizing themselves with the true meaning of academic freedom.</p>
<p>In exposing this travesty, Tyler Talgo acted with great courage and performed an important public service.</p>
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