What to Do About Big-Money College Sports?
…– and entirely legal – but that the NCAA has chosen to criminalize.” Perhaps nowhere are those tensions unfolding more than in football, where six power conferences, rather than the…
Search Results for: Title IX
The Keeton Case–An Abuse of Academic Power
Cross-posted from NAS. Several weeks ago, KC Johnson–a scholar I much admire, not least for his fearless dedication to principle–published an essay on Minding the Campus under the title, “Keeton…
Is the Court Changing Its Stand on Religious Freedom?
…or of Title VII, or of the various state and local versions of these statutes. Without a ministerial exception, the very ability of a neighborhood church to select its…
What Will They Learn? Maybe Not Much
…No, the problem is not too little money. It is too little attention to what matters. What do students learn during those expensive college years? That is precisely the title…
The Days of Legacy Admissions May Be Numbered
…race. Rosenberg misconstrues my argument to mean that I see legacy preferences as a violation of Title VI. I was not making that argument – I pointed to Title VI…
Are Legacy Preferences Illegal?
…together they add up to less than nothing. 1. Title VI First, it’s worth noting that Kahlenberg badly mischaracterizes Title VI— not only the original Title VI as written by…
Politely Demonizing Men at Wesleyan
…mostly female group of Yale alumni filed a petition with the Education Department accusing Yale of maintaining a “hostile sexual environment” in violation of Title IX of the federal Civil…
Greatly Exaggerated Death of the Novel
Thomas C. Foster’s book is three years old, but it still holds the gold medal for Turnoff Title of the New Millennium: How to Read Novels Like a Professor. The…
The Decline of the Novel and the Fate of English
…the last four decades. That’s the implication of a short commentary by Joseph Bottum in The Weekly Standard last week. It has the title “The Cocktail-Party Test,” which denotes a…
The Chilly World of the Campus Male
…title for internationally translated books, mugs, and posters. One Barnes & Noble reader called the “Boys Are Stupid” book, “Anti-boy hatred veiled in humor.” Yet the franchise gained enough notoriety…
Senate Bill Would Further Undermine Due Process on Campus
…IX for sexual harassment. A school is deemed guilty of discrimination under Title IX based on sexual harassment committed by a student or teacher only when it is “deliberately indifferent”…
Sorry, Charlotte, I Only Wish I Were Wrong About Columbia
…departmental chair’s conduct has subjected at least one Jewish student to unlawful discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Charlotte makes one strong point: ironically enough,…
You’re Wrong about Columbia’s ‘Steering,’ Ken
…through 2004, the Education Department appears ready to apply the concept of “steering” to enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids discrimination by educational…
“Steering” Orthodox Jews Away from Massad at Columbia
…by treating the student differently based on her Jewish heritage, she ran afoul of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That statute prohibits disparate treatment at federally…
The Feminist War on Fraternities
…Title IX of the federal Civil Rights Act, which forbids gender discrimination at educational institutions. The penalty for violating Title IX can be loss of federal funding, which in Yale’s…
Why Don’t Progressives Support U.S. History for Freshmen?
…Marxist worth the title would insist on deep historical knowledge just the same as would a traditionalist historian. Yes, the Marxist would highlight material conditions, while traditionalists might focus on…
The Porno Prof at Hamilton
The newest member of the Hamilton College English and Creative Writing department is Visiting Assistant Professor Alessandro Porco, who has published two books of pornographic poetry, including a repellent poem…
Romance Hinders Women in STEM Courses?
…but do. McAuliffe continues: As to the “so what,” the answer can be found in the report’s title. As long as there is a gender gap in these fields, there…
Will the AAUP Sanction the New Republic?
…matters. Klein doesn’t think quite as highly of the class, at least in its Yale permutation. His post’s title mocks the course as “Jeb Bush’s Favorite Neoconservative Class.” Klein criticizes…
Betrayal of Liberty on Campus
…may know what happened at my university. Has anyone seen FIRE’s YouTube video, “Think What We Think…or Else”? The title is perfect. It really captures what happened. (When I checked…
How Productive Do Professors Have to Be?
…College of Liberal Arts do maintain 3-3 loads, but their job titles do not include the word “professor.” Although all possess Ph.D. degrees, their job title is “lecturer” and they…
Religion on Campus, Then and Now
…A number of years later, the title became dean of religious and spiritual life. The New Diversity In such transformations of title the fate of “religious” life can be amply…
Stanford: Guilty Even If Innocent
…And, as a result of the recent OCR Title IX missive, he’s lost what was virtually his only due-process protection–that a conviction will result only from “beyond a reasonable prosecution.”…
At UVa, Girls Presumably Don’t Need Diversity
…other states, but it nevertheless receives federal funds and is still considered a public institution. Thus you might think that its programs must conform to Title IX, which provides that…
Lower Tuition for Illegals Safe for Now
…available to United States citizens. The law (Title 8 Section 1623 of the United States Code) reads as follows: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an alien who is not…
What Yale’s President Should Have Said about the Frat Boys
…I want instead to convey the very difficult position in which Yale University currently finds itself. The Title IX complaint and the “Dear Colleague” letter have forced us to choose…
The Coming War on Fraternities
…conducting a full-blown investigation of Yale for sexual harassment under Title IX of the federal Civil Rights Act. They were marched blindfolded through the Old Campus–“No means yes, and yes…
Mary Grabar Responds
…see the incredible bias of both. My examples were representative. About Heather Thomson-Bunn’s response: the point is well taken about leaving out the word “and” in the title of the…
Sexual Assault on Campus–Is It Exaggerated?
…fundamental misunderstanding of federal law: In Title IX sex discrimination cases, the “preponderance of the evidence” standard is meant to apply to an institution accused of violating the plaintiff’s rights,…
The Yale Sex Harassment Controversy
The academic gender wars are back in the news, with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announcing an investigation into a Title IX complaint against Yale University. Sixteen…