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  • Unmasking Marble and Bronze

    Unmasking Marble and Bronze0

    Protests and looting were supplanted last week by an orgy of more symbolic destruction. Statues of various figures from our civilization’s past – Christopher Columbus, a Texas Ranger, numerous confederate Civil War memorials, and even Philadelphia’s Frank Rizzo – have been toppled, defaced, or scheduled for removal by compliant officials. In the same spirit, a

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  • Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes

    Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes0

    Lawful gun owners accounted for just 18 percent of gun violence, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. Researchers analyzed 762 cases in which a gun was recovered by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Firearm Tracking Unit (FTU). “Most perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to

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  • University Shouldn’t Punish Me for Not Addressing Male Student as ‘Ms.’

    University Shouldn’t Punish Me for Not Addressing Male Student as ‘Ms.’0

    Returning from a sabbatical in my 21st year at Ohio’s Shawnee State University, I resumed teaching my regular political philosophy course. Taking questions in one such class at the end of my first day back, I acknowledged a male student with a “Yes, sir?” (It’s my practice to address my students in this way and

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  • University Proposes a Campus Retirement Community for Alumni

    University Proposes a Campus Retirement Community for Alumni0

    • August 14, 2015

    In the Western world, the university was created to be a utopian environment of learning separated off from the harshness and ignorance of the world outside. At many of today’s universities, learning has taken a backseat, but the utopian ambitions remain, now mainly in the form of entertainment. For four to eight years, students can

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  • University Prof: Freshman Class Achieves 100 Percent Failure Rate on Diagnostic Test

    University Prof: Freshman Class Achieves 100 Percent Failure Rate on Diagnostic Test0

    Americans are increasingly haunted by the fear that their schools are dumbing down lessons. This fear intensifies when “college-ready” students enroll in higher education and realize they’re not equipped to keep up with its academic demands. But this situation is not unique to American schools. As a university level instructor recently noted in The Guardian,

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  • University Offers ‘Problem of Whiteness’ Class, Again

    University Offers ‘Problem of Whiteness’ Class, Again0

    The University of Wisconsin-Madison will reintroduce a class this spring that teaches students why being white is a bad thing. The “Problem of Whiteness” course—part of the African Cultural Studies program—makes its mission to help students “understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy.” The class will also investigate how

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