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Category Archives: Academia
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
Posted in Academia, Blacks, Censorship
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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
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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
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The Shadow Scholar
This is the funniest article I’ve read in weeks: I do a lot of work for seminary students. I like seminary students. They seem so blissfully unaware of the inherent contradiction in paying somebody to help them cheat in courses … Continue reading
Posted in Academia
Tagged ethical model, future of medicine, moral decay, nursing ethics, seminary students, walking in the light of god
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When Did Date Rape Become A Crime?
Everything that my friends enjoyed doing at university is now a felony (I had CFS my whole time at UCLA and wasn’t up to any wickedness). How did this happen? When did manly hijinks with willing and not so willing … Continue reading
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Tagged date rape, federal crime, hijinks, liberty equality and fraternity, willing females
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An Interview With TV Pundit & Author S.E. Cupp
I watched S.E. Cupp on the Fox News TV show "Red Eye" Saturday night and procured a telephone interview with her Monday afternoon. She co-authored the new book Why You’re Wrong About The Right: Behind The Myths – The Surprising … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conservatives, Politics, Religion, S.E. Cupp, Sarah Palin
Tagged boston ballet, city ballet, fox news, target shooting, vose galleries, washington ballet
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The Jewish Obsession With College
I am thrilled to find more original content in Dennis Prager’s latest column for the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles: Having been in public life all of my adult life, I am not infrequently recognized by strangers. Most days someone … Continue reading →