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  • Students Hold ‘Poop-In’ in Push for More Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

    Students Hold ‘Poop-In’ in Push for More Gender-Neutral Bathrooms0

    Via Campus Reform: Students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst are staging a week-long “shit-in,” occupying restrooms in an administration building to demand more gender-neutral facilities. The “Shit-In at Whitmore” demonstration began Monday morning at the Whitmore Administration building (which the activists have nicknamed “Queermore”), and organizers intend to have students continue occupying stalls in the

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  • Students Don’t Need a “Passion,” They Need Persistence

    Students Don’t Need a “Passion,” They Need Persistence0

    Millennials are right to be angry about their schooling. Even the perpetrators see some of the damage they’re doing. “Escalating achievement pressure is not healthy for our youth,” says Kedra Ishop, an associate vice president for enrollment at the University of Michigan. “Young people are suffering from higher rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse

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  • Students Can Now Retake Their Test if They Don’t Like Their Grade

    Students Can Now Retake Their Test if They Don’t Like Their Grade0

    • December 4, 2017

    We’ve all seen how participation trophies have overtaken the world of kid sports. No longer is there one prize; instead, there are multiple awards for everything from first to tenth place. The backlash against this phenomenon is growing, however, and participation trophies are increasingly the butt of many jokes as Americans realize that awarding every

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  • Students asked to Defend Nazis and the Holocaust in Homework Assignment

    Students asked to Defend Nazis and the Holocaust in Homework Assignment0

     “Okay class, today’s assignment is to write an essay about ‘The Final Solution’ the plan created by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jewish people and others they deemed to be not worthy of life. I want half of you to make an argument in favor of the plan, and half of you to argue against it.”

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  • Students Arrested for Sharing Copies of U.S. Constitution

    Students Arrested for Sharing Copies of U.S. Constitution1

    Sometimes I think we must be living in an Alice-in-Wonderland world. At least, it sure seems like it if we judge from the number of times we’re forced to cry “Curiouser and curiouser!” because of the cognitive dissonance which abounds around us. Take the incident at Kellogg Community College in Michigan which recently came to

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  • Students Are Clueless About the Holocaust

    Students Are Clueless About the Holocaust0

    September 30th marks the birthday of famed author and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. (Pictured above on the second row from the bottom, seventh from the left.) Wiesel, best known for his memoir Night, was born in 1928 and introduced to the horrors of the Nazi death camps at age 15. His year-long experience in places

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