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  • How a Campus Kangaroo Court Drove One Student to Suicide

    How a Campus Kangaroo Court Drove One Student to Suicide0

    In May 2016, Thomas Klocke, a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, was accused of sexual misconduct. According to reports, the accusations stemmed from an interaction Klocke had with a gay student during class, in which Klocke allegedly used a gay slur. Klocke, who vehemently denied the accusations, was formally charged with violating

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  • How a Backflipping Terrier Got Me Reading

    How a Backflipping Terrier Got Me Reading0

    My junior year of college saw me making my way through the high points of Greco-Roman literature. Of the works on my reading list, the Odyssey was by far the easiest to navigate. Deftly, I followed Odysseus past the sirens, between Scylla and Charybdis, all the way home to Ithaca. You see, this was a

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  • How a 1934 New York Graduation Exam Shows How Far Academic Standards Have Fallen

    How a 1934 New York Graduation Exam Shows How Far Academic Standards Have Fallen0

    Today’s education system has a myriad of advantages that earlier generations never would have dreamed about. Smartboards. Tablets. Advanced science labs. Massive libraries. These perks are wonderful and suggest that our schools are giving children a much better education than they would have had at an earlier time. But what if all these advancements are

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  • How a ‘Pronoun’ Class Got a Young Canadian Academic Censured

    How a ‘Pronoun’ Class Got a Young Canadian Academic Censured0

    It was an unseasonably hot November in Canada after the curtain between free speech and hate speech caught fire at an Ontario university. The incident at Wilfrid Laurier University has since gained international attention, inflaming longstanding debates over the purposes and parameters of higher education. As the fallout continues to grow, however, and old positions

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  • How a ‘Handsome’ Ivy League Grad Was Nabbed by Gender Misconduct Cops

    How a ‘Handsome’ Ivy League Grad Was Nabbed by Gender Misconduct Cops0

    How does it feel to receive a gender misconduct violation? Not good. That’s the impression one gets after reading Benjamin Sweetwood’s recent public confession. Sweetwood, writing at The Tab, shared a traumatic experience: While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he was accused of gender misconduct. Here is his story: I was in Chinese class in

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  • How 19th-Century Women Used Seduction Laws to Rope Husbands

    How 19th-Century Women Used Seduction Laws to Rope Husbands0

    We tend to think of Victorian-era America as an oppressive environment for women—and in many ways it was. But it’s worth pointing out that during this period it was not unusual for governments to take great measures to protect the social position and respectability of women. In his book Crime and Punishment in American History,

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