The college did not appreciate his on-line confession of a crime. Here 's Phil Busse's Huffington post item, called "Confessions of a Lawn Sign Stealer": [T]he oversized 4 x 8 foot mini-billboard in front of the…
He's a freshman, studying music: The Chili Peppers [created tension] in our song structures but all based on emotion and intuition as opposed to knowing the math and academics of it. Knowing the structure is really fun. He&#…
And if their cars have political bumper stickers, they can't park them in campus lots! ADDED: I understand the focus on bumper stickers. Too much transparency if the faculty parking lot has rows and rows of Obama stickers.
"It was a not very tall candelabra of old bronze and artistic workmanship. It consisted of a group: on the pedestal stood two female figures in the costume of Eve and in attitudes for the description of which I have neither …
So how can a real, American literary artist take a job as a creative writing professor? Asks David Gessner. [I]t’s hard to imagine [Thoreau] taking a break from one of his marathon strolls to waste three hours teaching a graduate…
But this is quite serious. It's a fermentation and zymurgy class in the bacteriology department, with prerequisites in microbiology, biochemistry, and organic chemistry. [The teacher Jon] Roll said students will plot yeast g…
The debate is September 26 and the topic is domestic and economic policy. There will be 9 segments, each 9 minutes long. (I hope the candidates will be dressed to the nines.) I'd like to see one the 9 segments delve into Oba…
Byron York says yes , defending this McCain ad (which is probably one of the ads Obama called "sleaziest" ). York says: The legislation in question, a bill in the Illinois State Senate that was supported but not sponso…
The Chronicle of Higher Education addresses the subject. (With some quotes from me.) Their comment section is over here . I like the second one, from "Wilford Brimley": You young whippersnappers with your newfangled fo…
Says the Oberlin professor. The diligent students unplug the refrigerator. And they set a 3-minute time limits on showers: ... Becky Bob-Waksberg, racked up the morning’s longest shower: Eight minutes. The house cuts Ms. Bob-Wak…
I'm not sure whether I'm bothered more by the form or the substance of this sentence. It's from a NYT article by Michael Kimmelman headlined "A Lowbrow in High Office Ruffles France," and it follows the lin…
Instapundit links to this Denver Post story about 2 male students who distributed a parody — "The Monthly Bag" — of the feminist newsletter — "The Monthly Rag." Here 's a PDF of the 1-page flier (via Ace…
It's the big thing on campus these days. Supposedly. ... Ms. Onejeme, now a senior applying to law school, ended up changing her major to philosophy, which she thinks has armed her with the skills to be successful. “My mothe…
A lot of people do these days , and it might make financial sense. Obviously, there are problems with the housing market that affect the decision these days, but generally, I wish I'd thought of doing this when my sons were i…
So the Denver Public School District gave kids health reports to take home, and one child discovered that her weight put her in the "overweight" category: "The part that upset her the most as she started reading i…
So. The evidence is: Columbia University won't turn over the video showing who hung the noose on the black professor's door. Infer. UPDATE: Decision reversed. Good. It's absurd to report this to the police and then …
A conservative group sponsors something it calls "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" on campus and feels the hate. For conservatives, apparently. But whoever hates the conservatives doesn't mind making the Muslim stude…
"I was never a liberal. I was radical," he says, talking about how difficult it was for him to go to work for a Republican after he graduated from Yale Law School. His Yale Law degree was worth almost nothing, he says. …