It came to my attention yesterday that the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), my alma mater, is at the center of a disturbing hazing lawsuit. The plaintiff, Raphael C. Joseph, alleges that he was so brutally beaten during Omega Psi Phi’s Nu Eta chapter “Hell Night” in April 2023 that he required emergency surgery, a […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Real Clear Education on May 01, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Early in my tenure at the education policy organization I founded, we barely had any money. No money meant no lobbyist, which left […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Liberty Unyielding on May 6, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. When it is ideologically convenient, progressives switch back and forth between being “free speech absolutists” in defense of their own side’s speech, to being avid censors of ugly speech by the other side. A classic example is the […]
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