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A special investigation of part-time Metropolitan State College instructor Andrew Hallam has determined that he had not violated any college policies in assigning an essay on Republican vice president nominee Sarah Palin to one of his English classes. "The investigation concluded that Hallam must learn to curb the use of vulgar language in class, and that the introduction of controversal topics must have a substantial relationship with the subject of the class," according to a news bulletin released by the college Tuesday. "While discipline is not warranted, appropriate mentoring is recommended." Hallam, who started teaching at Metro State College this...

ACADEMIC ADVANCES Forty years ago, when the data series analyzed here began, just three in ten college freshmen had fathers who had a college education. Now, a majority do. Young college students today have higher education goals than their predecessors did a generation ago. The changes have been particularly dramatic for young women, with a fivefold increase in the number who plan to become doctors, and a threefold increase in the number who plan to get a Ph.D. OBJECTIVES AND IDEOLOGY Over the past 40 years, college freshmen have changed their views about some objectives that will be essential or...

On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows. The reason, according to UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, isn’t indoctrination by left-leaning faculty but rather the more powerful influence of fellow students. And at most colleges, left-leaning peer groups are more common than conservative ones. After college, students—particularly women—move somewhat back to the right politically. The research is the latest of several efforts by academics to lend analytical rigor to an emotional debate. Overall, college faculty lean left politically,...

Anyone wondering what my battle to restore the right to free speech in Canada has to do with America should read Michael Barone on "The Coming Obama Thugocracy". WGN's Milt Rosenberg, NR's Stanley Kurtz and others have already been on the receiving end of the thugocracy. On the air with Milt the other night, I quoted Bob Hope and Bing Crosby: He gets his shirts straight from Paris Cigarettes from the Nile He talks like a highbrow But he plays Chicago style... That's Obama: highbrow enough for Christopher Buckley, Euro-bespoke (not sure where he gets his smokes these days -...

Springfield, MO (LifeNews.com) -- Student vandals at Missouri State University wrecked a pro-life cross memorial on the school’s Blair-Shannon Lawn on Wednesday, October 1. Some students cheered from a nearby sidewalk as others deliberately stepped on the crosses and one student rode his bike through the display.Bears for Life (BFL), a student group that received assistance from the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia, hosted the Graveyard of Innocents, a memorial of nearly 4,000 popsicle-stick crosses to represent the number of unborn babies killed by abortion each day.One BFL volunteer who witnessed the incident captured some of the vandalism on video....

LONDON: It may sound untrue, but it's now a fact — Britain's standing as a world-class destination for higher education is under threat. Leading British universities have lost ground to their richer foreign rivals in world rankings — both Cambridge and Oxford universities have slipped down the top 200 list to give way to popular US varsities like Harvard and Yale. In fact, according to the Times Higher Education — QS World University Rankings, Harvard is at the top followed by Yale, Cambridge and Oxford. Both these British varsities came joint second last year. However, four UK universities are in...

A Temple College Professor that appears to be a spokesperson for Obama was just on Fox said that Sarah Palin uses code words that include "hockey moms', "joe six-pack" etc. All of these words represent white middle class people and anyone knows this that was raised in the white supremacy ruled United States. I was shocked to hear this and to look at this man's face and the visible hate on his face. O'Reilly tried to say that he would picture a guy with a 6pack of Bud and never put a color with it. This guy replied that he...

RALEIGH, North Carolina: Enrollment of minorities in U.S. colleges has increased substantially in recent years, but not fast enough to keep up with demographic changes. Among Hispanics, a lower proportion who are in theri late 20s has completed at least a two-year degree when compared with those age 30 and older. Unless the trend is reversed, the increases in Hispanic participation in higher education won't be enough to ensure that a growing proportion earn a college degree. The findings are highlighted in a biennial report to be released Thursday by the American Council on Education, supported by the GE Foundation....

The clueless aristocrats have descendents in spoiled college kids who think it’s trendy to idolize Communist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Che’s face is emblazoned on T-shirts; he was glamorized by the movie The Motorcycle Diaries; and Time magazine described him as “a potent symbol of rebellion.” But few of the college hipsters who admire Che know what he actually stood for.

Speech give at World Education Forum in Venezuela by Bill Ayers Centro Interncional Miranda Caracas, Venezuela November , 2006 President Hugo Chavez, Vice-President Vicente Rangel, Ministers Moncada and Isturiz, invited guests,comrades. I’m honored and humbled to be here with you this morning. I bring greetings and support from your brothers and sisters throughout Northamerica. Welcome to the World Education Forum! Amamos la revolucion Bolivariana! This is my fourth visit to Venezuela, each time at the invitation of my comrade and friend Luis Bonilla, a brilliant educator and inspiring fighter for justice. Luis has taught me a great deal about the...

CSULB: Academic Senate distances itself from Kevin MacDonald's controversial works.LONG BEACH - The Cal State Long Beach Academic Senate has voted to disassociate itself from the writings of a controversial psychology professor who has been accused of having anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views. "While the Academic Senate defends Dr. Kevin MacDonald's academic freedom and freedom of speech, as it does for all faculty, it firmly and unequivocally disassociates itself from the anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views he has expressed," according to the resolution Thursday. Responding to the resolution, MacDonald, a tenured professor, said "everyone has ethnic interests." "This is an...

America’s university system is creating a class-riven nation. There has to be a better way. To ask whether too many people are going to college requires us to think about the importance and nature of a liberal education. “Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood,” John Stuart Mill told students at the University of St. Andrews in 1867. “Their object is not to make skillful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings.” If this is true (and I agree that it is), why...

It's kind of hard to talk about affirmative action in college admissions when you have a black man from the Ivy League leading in the home stretch of the race for the nation's presidency. How much more proof of equal opportunity do we need? But I was alarmed last month by the stance of a UCLA political science professor who resigned from the school's admissions committee because he suspects that "cheating" on the admissions process accounts for the recent jump in blacks. He quit in protest after UCLA officials, citing privacy concerns, declined to give him access to student applications...

How The Fed, Media And Academia Aided And Abetted Lending Debacle By STEVEN MALANGA | Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:30 PM PT In the early 1990s, I attended a conference designed to teach journalists the tools of an emerging field known as computer-assisted investigative reporting. One of the hottest sessions explained how journalists could replicate stories that other papers had done locally using computer tools, including one especially popular project to determine if banks in your community were discriminating against minority borrowers in making mortgages. One newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, had won a Pulitzer Prize for its computer-assisted series...

The candidate of change, the shining proponent of a "new way" in national politics, says that you aren't allowed to bring a sign to his rally. So much for the right of free political speech. To add insult to injury, this rally was held at the publicly funded University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. So, now the government is lending the weight of its authority to squelch free speech. So, where is the hew and cry about this unAmerican activity? Did the media even note this heavy-handed policy? But, it is all true nonetheless. The rally was held and...

WARNING: THIS COLUMN CONTAINS BAD LANGUAGE In 1968, 50 student militants at Cornell University, my alma mater, stormed the offices of the Economics Department and took the department chair hostage because he had praised the achievements of Western civilization. The university administration found that the militants had been victims of “institutional racism” and thus spared them appropriate punishment. A few months later, members of the Afro-American Society (AAS) took control of another campus building in order to put it to AAS use. Then, during the 1969 Parents’ Weekend, up to 100 militants invaded the student union, followed by beatings and...

One of the primary objectives of the Palestinian Authority (PA) after its establishment in 1994 was to delegitimize Israel.The delegitimization of Israel incorporated various hate messages, especially the denial of Israel's right to exist. Certain academics are chosen by the PA to indoctrinate the people using such public venues as PA TV and, particularly, educational broadcasting. Many PA academics have gone beyond the theoretical "struggle." They teach that the killing of Jews by Muslims is a precondition of world redemption. Because Jews are inherently evil and an existential danger, their annihilation is justified self-defense, a service to humanity, and an...

Higher (Priced) EducationBy Burt Prelutsky Oscar Wilde once described a cynic as a man who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. It makes me wonder, were he alive today, if he would characterize us as a country of cynics or merely dismiss us as a nation of fools. I mean, how is it that Americans who lived hardscrabble lives 150 years ago could read, write, do math problems, and quote at length from Shakespeare and the Bible, while today, in spite of “Sesame Street,� pre-school, Operation Head Start, computers, and mind-numbing hours of homework, millions...

Soldier’s Car Vandalized At Dallas University http://www.nbc5i.com/news/17550315/detail.html

The University of Mary Washington is scheduled to hold a rally with both Obama and Joe Biden at their historic Fredericksburg, Virginia campus on Saturday, September 27, at 5:15 PM. The university's bookstore is selling 1,000 Obama / Biden t-shirts at their bookstore starting today (Friday). T-shirts have the university's logo on the front and has the words " Obama was there, Biden was there, I was there, UMW 08 " on the back. Cost: $9.99. Profits from the t-shirts go to the university's bookstore. The idea for the campaign slogan t-shirt came from the university's bookstore manager, Kathy Underwood,...

Vandal leaves message of hate on soldier's Jeep at Dallas Baptist University An Army Reserves sergeant studying at Dallas Baptist University was surprised this week to find the message "soldiers are murderers" spray painted on his Jeep Wrangler. Video Viktow Whitlow, a junior... later to find his vehicle's tires had been flattened, the seats slashed and "soldiers are murderers" spray painted in red across the hood.... ...Mr. Whitlow does have insurance...Damage was estimated at $7,000.

PORTLAND -- The Secret Service says it's investigating the hanging of a cardboard likeness of Barack Obama from a tree on an Oregon campus to see whether any threats were made against the Democratic presidential candidate. But the agent in charge of the Portland office says he doesn't expect to turn up a crime. The FBI, meanwhile, says it's opened a preliminary investigation to see whether anybody's civil rights were violated. Local officials say no state law was broken. The commercially produced likeness was discovered Tuesday on the campus of George Fox University in Newberg. It was tied to the...

A poster promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace at an AC Transit bus stop in front of UC Berkeley’s Eshelman Hall has been repeatedly vandalized with anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas, authorities said. The poster—part of the “Only in Israel” public awareness campaign launched by San Francisco-based BlueStarPR and sponsored by the Jewish Community Federation and Foundation of the Greater East Bay—has a picture of Israeli Arab soccer star Sowan Abbas calling for coexistence among communities. The poster also gives an example of a soccer team consisting of Jews and Arabs training together in the Arab-Israeli town of Sakhnin. Gabe Weiner, a campus coordinator...

The president of George Fox University this morning denounced the hanging of a likeness of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama on campus along with graffiti aimed at minority recipients of a scholarship program. President Robin Baker discussed the incident today during the twice-weekly campus service, which was packed. With dozens of Act 6 students and student leaders in front of the stage, he urged students to show that the display, found Tuesday, has no place in Christian ideals. "We absolutely cannot hate those around us and say we love God," he said. "It is not possible." "Yesterday was not a good...

A commission convened by some of the country’s most influential college admissions officials is recommending that colleges and universities move away from their reliance on SAT and ACT scores and shift toward admissions exams more closely tied to the high school curriculum and achievement. ... It encourages institutions to consider dropping admission test requirements unless they can prove that the benefits of such tests outweigh the negatives. ... Mr. Fitzsimmons’s group, which was convened by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, also expresses concerns “that test scores appear to calcify differences based on class, race/ethnicity and parental educational attainment.”...

<p>University of Massachusetts officials yesterday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democrat Barack Obama.</p> <p>Chaplain Ken Higgins told students in a Sept. 18 e-mail, “If you’re scared about the prospects for this election, you’re not alone. The most important way to make a difference in the outcome is to activate yourself. It would be just fine with McCain if Obama supporters just think about helping, then sleep in and stay home between now and Election Day.”</p>

University of Massachusetts officials yesterday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democrat Barack Obama. Chaplain Ken Higgins told students in a Sept. 18 e-mail, “If you’re scared about the prospects for this election, you’re not alone. The most important way to make a difference in the outcome is to activate yourself. It would be just fine with McCain if Obama supporters just think about helping, then sleep in and stay home between now and Election Day.” Higgins added that an unnamed “sponsor”...

Islamofascism: Keep a Wary Eye on Muslim Students and Liberal Faculty September 22, 2008 by Lance I speak from experience in article #2 below. See: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Trained Muslim Terrorists, Blames Jews For 9/11 - Shlomo Muslim, Ph.D.I Drank Beer with an Al Qaeda Terrorist at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - LanceERAU: Famous For Training Pilots to Fly Into Buildings - Shlomo Muslim, Ph.D.From FrontPage Magazine today:No Terrorist Left Behindby Phil Orenstein | FrontPageMagazine.comAs a nation, we recently commemorated the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, one of the most horrific attacks against the United States in our nation’s...

Today, in a piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools,” I offer a report on my research into the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an education foundation once headed by Barack Obama. As I explained in “Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?” the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago first agreed to grant, then abruptly denied me, access to the files of this foundation. Subsequently, the Daley Library again reversed their decision and made the CAC files available. As I note in today’s Journal piece, I’ve conveyed the...

University of Massachusetts officials on Monday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

<p>BOSTON (AP) - University of Massachusetts officials on Monday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Chaplain Kent Higgins told students in a Sept. 18 e-mail, "If you're scared about the prospects for this election, you're not alone. The most important way to make a difference in the outcome is to activate yourself. It would be just fine with (Republican candidate John) McCain if Obama supporters just think about helping, then sleep in and stay home between now and Election Day."</p>

Ghosts from civil rights era are fading away OXFORD -- University of Mississippi Chancellor Robert Khayat is well aware of the significance of the nation's first black presidential nominee, Democrat Barack Obama, arriving this week on the same campus where James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962. When the international media spotlight returns for the Friday debate, the chancellor knows questions about race will come from the expected 3,000 members of the media. Feeling confident about the work the school has done in recent years, Khayat believes many journalists with opinions of the university forged by the riot...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Acknowledging that 20 years and millions of dollars spent loudly and bitterly attacking the liberal leanings of American campuses have failed to make much of a dent in the way undergraduates are educated, some conservatives have decided to try a new strategy. They are finding like-minded tenured professors and helping them establish academic beachheads for their ideas. These initiatives, like the Program in Western Civilization and American Institutions at the University of Texas, Austin, or a project at the University of Colorado here in Colorado Springs, to publish a book of classic texts, are mostly financed by...

Fifty-four Cornell students packed into twelve cars made the three-hour drive this weekend to Pennsylvania — a crucial battleground state with a narrow democratic victory in the 2004 presidential election. The group, organized by the Cornell Democrats, traveled to the town of Stroudsburg to volunteer for Barack Obama’s campaign in Monroe County. Students were put to work immediately upon their arrival Friday evening making phone calls to undecided voters. The campaign’s goal for Saturday was to knock on 1,000 doors and make as many calls as possible. But Cornell students exceeded local campaign organizers’ expectations, according to John Spears, one...

Sarah Stern, who heads EMET, the Washington, D.C.-based Endowment for Middle East Truth think-tank, says the Saudi Arabians are using their petrodollars to make major inroads into the American educational system, from elementary school and up. Speaking with Eve Harow on Israel National Radio, Stern said the Saudis are making use of a clause in the little-known Higher Education Law called Title VI to train teachers from kindergarten through 12th grade with an anti-American, anti-Israel bent. Stern explained that Title VI was legislated in 1958, "in the midst of the Cold War, when it was felt that American youngsters did...

No Terrorist Left Behind   By Phil OrensteinFrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 22, 2008 As a nation, we recently commemorated the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, one of the most horrific attacks against the United States in our nation’s history. It was a day of national mourning with memorial services, moments of silence and special events for the victims’ families as every New Yorker and folks all across the country touched by that fateful day shared recollections, stories and tears. That morning, I shared an emotional moment with a co-worker who had just come from an early morning church...

Just a few Fridays ago I got the good news about the addition of Sarah Palin to the 2008 Republican ticket. I was so excited I fired off a few rounds from my assault rifle and then hopped in the car and drove back to my office at UNC-Wilmington. I wanted to talk to some of the feminists in my department about this great breakthrough in the struggle for gender equality. Of course, none of the feminists were in the office in the hours after Sarah Palin’s introduction as John McCain’s running mate. Maybe they were off celebrating the great...

"...Getting to the bottom of evolution...Genetic study investigates the origin of the anus...research is opening a lively debate on the origin of the anus...Today, two evolutionary biologists have published genetic evidence in Nature1 that they claim refutes the leading theory of anal evolution..."

A British guide to leading left-wingers claims that the crazy leftoid fringe “has all but disappeared over the last year as the surge in Iraq has worked and more on the left wake up to the fact they have been ‘fellow travelling’ with radical Islamists.” This isn’t the case in Australia, where we’re still being told that terrorists are victims: Prof Anthony Burke, senior lecturer at the University of NSW where ADFA classes are held, in his book Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence, said students should try to understand terrorists rather than fight them. “In the wake of 9/11, our...

Q. Although attending college has long been a staple of the American dream, you argue in your new book, “Real Education,” that too many kids are now heading to four-year colleges and wasting their time in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree. A. Yes. Let’s stop this business of the B.A., this meaningless credential. And let’s talk about having something kids can take to an employer that says what they know, not where they learned it. Q. You’re not the first social scientist to knock the liberal arts, but you may be the first to insist that only 20 percent of...

LCCC official charged in theft Peter Paul Moses accused in theft of more than $17,000, two computers from school. By Sherry Long Times Leader NANTICOKE – An associate dean at Luzerne County Community College was arrested Thursday and charged with the theft of more than $17,000 and two computers from the school. Officials said Peter Paul Moses, 57, the college’s associate dean of administration and auxiliary services, stole $17,524 in cash and two Dell laptops valued at $1,598 between Jan. 1, 2006 and Dec. 31, 2007. He is charged with three counts of theft by unlawful taking, two counts of...

Yes parents, Old Glory Radio continues it’s education series by going over the Arcata Ca. Humboldt State University school newspaper…. The Limberjack. Join us as we explore the many opportunities your children will have. From the Old Glory Radio Hour live show 09/19/08

The Cornell Review controversy over printing an article about campus “ghettos,” “bitter minorities” and affirmative action became even more pronounced yesterday when students proposed a resolution to the Student Assembly to ban the use of the Cornell name by the biweekly journal’s title. The article, “What to Expect: The Angry Minority,” said students in program houses — only at Cornell because of affirmative action and scholarships — complain about brutal oppression from “whitey.” Students Nikhil Kumar ’11, minority representative-at-large, and Nicole Rivera ’09, president of the Minority Business Student Association, brought the resolution to the table. “As a student here...

As I noted on an earlier thread, I sent an email to the president of Metro College after I read about Andrew Hallam's assignment "to assemble criticisms of Gov. Sarah Palin." http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75426 They have responded in what I think it an appropriate way. I thought it would only be fair to share the email. ************ RE: E-mail from contact Office of the President Site Thank you for your concerns about the issues mentioned in recent news mediastories. Metro State senior administration first learned of this situationvia an article in the WorldNetDaily on Tuesday, Sept. 16. At that point, theCollege had...

FAIRBANKS — A University of Alaska Fairbanks professor emeritus known for his belief that carbon dioxide is not the sole cause of climate change presented his latest research Thursday. More than 40 researchers and students gathered into a room at the International Arctic Research Center, now named after Syun-Ichi Akasofu, for the hour-long presentation. “Retirement is good because I can spend the time to correct information,” Akasofu said. For several years now, Akasofu has put forward the idea that while the world was warming for most of the 20th century, it stopped warming sometime around 2000 or 2001. He clarified...

Is it me or does my 4th Grade son's agenda notebook (which is provided by the government school in Virginia) have some not so subtle messages. Please let me know if I'm just being over-sensitive since I'm in the military and a little paranoid about the socialistst trying to take over our schools.

An English Professor at Denver's Metropolitan State College is being investigated by the college for, bias,bullying and harassment after he gave students in his class an assignment to " undermind " the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin

? Metro State College is investigating a professor who asked students to write an essay critical of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin. One student said the instructor singled out Republican students in the class and allowed others to ridicule them. "I was shocked, I was holy cow, this is just an open door for him to discuss politics with us," said Jana Barber, a student in the class. Barber shared the first class assignment with CBS4. Instructor Andrew Hallam asked students to write an essay to contradict what he called the 'fairy tale image of Palin' presented at...

A.k.a. “Why David Horowitz will never run out of material.” The claim of classroom intimidation — or, in the words of The One, getting in people’s faces — is much worse than the writing assignment, needless to say. In fact, if critical thinking’s the goal, scrutinizing Palin arguably benefits Republican students more than Democrats in that it asks them to look analytically at a pol whose image they might otherwise accept at face value. But of course, critical thinking’s not the goal; if it was, the Obama cultists would likewise have been challenged to assess the “fairy tale image” of...

Duke to Parents: Please Save by: Bethany Stotts, September 18, 2008 College tuitions have risen dramatically over the last two decades, with the average private four-year college costing parents $14,755 in 1991. Today that same four-year private college would cost $23,712 (2007 dollars), according to statistics released by the College Board. As Accuracy in Academia has documented, some scholars attribute the rising costs to ever-available federal financial aid, and some to an unnecessary emphasis on higher education. But Duke University’s former financial aid director, Jim Belvin, asserts that federal financial aid has “many positives,” including a “streamlining” effect and raising...