Day: January 17, 2008

Eight Ways To Ignore Academic Problems

Rob Weir, at Inside Higher Ed, offers a list of academic squabbles worth giving up. Any worthy dead horses to clamber out of? Well, no, it’s mainly a list of disputes in which he feels the other side ought to give up. Consider “Are Campus Conservatives Victims of Discrimination” Does anyone have any spare crocodile […]

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I Pray That Sacrilege Is Protected

Rhode Island College received national attention recently when the student newspaper published a cartoon depicting Jesus as the perfect roommate complete with smelly feet, turning water into wine like a card-trick at the weekly keg party. Many people objected but the College was correct to say that they wouldn’t restrict the student’s first amendment rights. […]

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