For the third time in as many months, a student whose college deemed him a rapist has filed suit in federal court, this time against Xavier University. But the case filed by former Xavier student Dez Wells differs in two important respects. First, Wells’ accuser, Kristen Rogers, went to the authorities–who after thoroughly reviewing the […]
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As suggested here last March, the apparent wave of racist graffiti at Oberlin College was yet another campus hoax. So were the anti-Semitic and anti-gay graffiti and the reported sighting of a white-sheeted Klansman on campus. The sightings seemed unlikely at the time, yet they caused a day of class cancellations and fostered much hand-wringing […]
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The White House yesterday unveiled what it is billing as an ambitious new plan to tackle college affordability. President Obama’s wish list amounts to an expansion of centralized state control over higher education, containing a hodge-podge of special-interest items masqueraded as reform First is a government college ranking system to be based on measures of […]
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What do college students read? According to one survey Shades of Gray, the sado-masochistic novel, was the most widely read book outside the classroom. Another survey indicated that The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, dealing with her battle with cancer and racial grievance, was the most popular book. But as the recent publication of the […]
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