The Baffling ‘Bull’ Behind Title IX
Editor’s Note: The essay below is a revised and edited version specifically tailored for Minding the Campus. It has been updated from its original publication on The Berea Torch. At…
Editor’s Note: The essay below is a revised and edited version specifically tailored for Minding the Campus. It has been updated from its original publication on The Berea Torch. At…
…school we were enrolling in was that it was “big C Catholic,” not “big C Communist.” There’s a chapel on campus that is based on the architecture of the Mausoleam…
…judge George C. Paine committed misconduct by holding membership in “Belle Meade,” a 110-year-old social club in Nashville (664 F.3d 332, In re Complaint of Judicial Misconduct). The panel concluded…
…much like describing other characteristics—sophomore, on-campus, economics major. Nobody says Jane Doe is allegedly a sophomore, allegedly majoring in economics, and allegedly neglected to enclose copied passages in quotation marks…
…a bean, and the Soviet era’s a-shoe-is-a-shoe economy arrived on campus and produced ever more grander resumes that served as tickets to institutional power and, ultimately, shaping the culture. Gaming…
…of the Jewish People violates university codes of conduct, the three Presidents equivocated: “It depends on context.” Here’s context: I am reminded of the Charleston, South Carolina, church massacre on…
…largest public university. According to a 2023 survey of more than 55,000 students on 248 campuses conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), 69 percent of Ohio…
…genocide only break the rules “if speech turns into conduct.” Rep. Stefanic rightly noted that this means there is no violation until campus antisemites actually begin trying to kill Jews….
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Epoch Times on December 9, 2023 and is crossposted here with permission. Commentary American and Canadian university campuses rang for weeks…
…that mission—intellectual freedom, the search for truth, and virtuous citizenship—are likewise disputed territory these days. I trust the reader knows the deal. “Intellectual freedom” on the contemporary campus often seems…
…which are contingent upon the applicants’ willingness to demonstrate support for campus orthodoxies. An Inside Higher Ed analysis, in spite of the platform’s left-leaning outlook on higher education, acknowledges that…
…a private back channel to the judiciary. It also violates the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Model Rules of Professional Conduct. In both these instances, and many others, a number of…
…speech—all good things that seem to have offended certain members of our MCC campus community. Professor Richardson was hired to teach history in the State Center Community College District (SCCCD)…
…at this ripe age the captain of a ten-man bomber aircraft, and often a group or even squadron leader, responsible for hundreds of lives and the conduct and performance of…
…view, these campus brownshirts are so sure of their beliefs, so positive that their perception is the valid one, the only true one, that they seek to quash the speech…
…accreditation will become more susceptible to human bias and abuse. When a program is evaluated by ABET, the evaluation is completed by a small team of experts during a campus…
…campus. “Wax’s on-campus statements, the way she conducts her classroom, and the extreme and exclusionary voices she has inserted into the Law School’s curriculum,” Ruger claimed, “have led minority students…
…abandons one of the most fundamental standards of the Anglo-American criminal-justice tradition. Since 1935, in proceedings where defendants are accused of criminal conduct, the standard of evidence that triggers liability…
…have indicated that you will not take responsibility for your conduct” and “You have indicated that you have no remorse for your conduct.” In addition to violating the “no punishment…
…without having to take responsibility for their irresponsible and unethical conduct. In many cases, where they make accusations of “racism” and “white supremacy,” it also shelters the cancelers from legal…
…practically universal on college campuses, with university administrators freely and publicly admitting to practices that Wygant unambiguously declared illegal a generation ago. Similarly, despite California voters passing a ban on…
…some honest administrators the courage to stand up against blatantly illegal conduct. Watch Minding the Campus for further reporting on how the case progresses. Update: In response to a request…
…the motion.” The censoriousness surrounding trans activism and other woke issues eventually led me to revert to satire. As I mentioned in my last piece for Minding the Campus, an…
…Open Letter to Mount Royal University” that flowed from the questionable assumptions of the official pronouncements. This letter stated the following: “Recent events on and/or involving our campus have created…
…UNC touts its commitment to “diversity initiatives … from campus discussion forums and student debates to course offerings.” The school also emphasizes diversity of intellectual thought “against group think,” earning…
…innocent women, the new Biden Title IX guidelines seem destined to make victims out of more students and faculty who push back or ignore the prevailing sexual orthodoxy on campuses—to…
…protected by the First Amendment. The new definition would discard the current definition used by the Education Department, which is based on a 1999 Supreme Court decision. Right now, campus…
…to expand, not limit, the number of ideas that can be perceived as “racist” on campuses. He points, for example, to a 2010 incident at his college where an administrator…
…ethos on campus. “The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses” (1998), by Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) founders Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate, shows…
…an American campus either. And that same university would never compound the moral harm of this group’s activism by inviting its leader to speak as the representative of its student…