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Category Archives: Academia
College & Mental Health
Steve Sailer writes: Something I’ve noticed over the decades is that depression and other non-psychotic mental troubles are fairly common among college students. And a lot of the hate hoaxes seem to have roots in emotional difficulties that are tied … Continue reading
Paying College Athletes With Sex
CNN: ESPN: Louisville ex-assistant basketball coach paid for recruits’ sex parties (CNN)The school is a perennial powerhouse. It’s one of the biggest and best-known college basketball institutions in the country. Led by head coach Rick Pitino, the Louisville Cardinals won … Continue reading
Racial Hysteria Triumphs on Campus
Heather Mac Donald writes: The pathological narcissism of American college students has found a potentially devastating new source of power in the sports-industrial complex. University of Missouri president Timothy Wolfe resigned Monday morning in the face of a threatened boycott … Continue reading
The Big Mess On Campus
Steve Sailer writes: On Monday, America’s undergraduate college system melted down in three humiliating incidents. At Yale, in a brouhaha over Halloween costumes that has been dragging on for a week and a half now, a distinguished professor apologized for … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: College Football Team Fires University President
Chaim Amalek: “I love everything about this story. Also, that this university president proved to be so weak willed that he let himself be driven out under these circumstances tells us that his departure is no great loss for anyone … Continue reading
Yale’s Halloween Costume Crisis
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I suggest that these students would benefit from experiencing a Chinese practice from the time of the Cultural Revolution. Several years of hard labour in a rural setting. * Young kids just love censorship. It’s … Continue reading
WP: Yale’s president tells minority students: ‘We failed you’
From the WP comments: * Yikes! What are these students majoring in? Insane Hypersensitivity Studies? I thought Yale had eliminated Smug Entitlement 101 as a required course. I feel offended. Apparently, everyone reading this message (or at least Yale’s Dean) … Continue reading
The Left Wing Bias In Academia
Orthodox Judaism is as estranged from the secular university as any white power advocate. The more Orthodox the Jew, the less likely he is to study at college. Traditional Orthodox Jews often fear sending their kids to college in case … Continue reading
Fighting Irish Football Team At Risk
Report: Five players — KeiVarae Russell, DaVaris Daniels, Eilar Hardy, Kendall Moore and Ishaq Williams — were suspended by the university last season amid an investigation into academic fraud.
A Bit Full Of Herself?
Katy Bowman writes: “Initially starting her college career as a mathematician turned physicist, she grew bored with theoretical problems of point masses and strings. Combining her love for anatomy and physiology with her strong engineering background, Katy completed her undergraduate … Continue reading