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Readers Explain What Trump’s Win Means for America 0
- Culture
- November 16, 2016
A week ago, Americans awoke to find that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States. We asked our readers to share their insights on what Trump’s surprising means and how it would impact Western Civilization in the coming years. Below is a sampling of your insightful responses: [Editor’s Note: These responses
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Students Hold ‘Poop-In’ in Push for More Gender-Neutral Bathrooms 0
- Culture
- November 16, 2016
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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20 of Shakespeare’s Most Blistering Insults 0
- Entertainment
- November 15, 2016
“No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip: she is spherical, like a globe.” Dromio of Syracuse referring to the great girth of the future wife of his lost brother in The Comedy of Errors “Thou art a Castilian King urinal!” – The Host to Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Why More Colleges Are Turning a Blind Eye to Cheating 0
- Education
- November 15, 2016
Imagine that you’re the president of a community college. To justify your institution’s existence and your enviable salary, you must convince the board of trustees that the institution is meeting—possibly even exceeding—certain productivity benchmarks: for instance, a threshold number of new enrolments, solid graduation rates and satisfactory retention of students from year to year. The
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UVA President Gets in Trouble for Quoting… Jefferson?0
- Culture
- November 15, 2016
I’m convinced our higher education system has lost just about every shred of common sense it had. Sure, there are pockets here and there, but that seems to be the exception rather than the norm. The latest example of this lack of common sense occurred the other day at the University of Virginia. In an
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Snowden: Stop Putting So Much Faith (and Fear) in Presidents 0
- Politics
- November 15, 2016
Whistleblower ?and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden remains a fugitive at large, but that didn’t stop him from popping up and chiming in on the recent presidential election. Snowden, who in 2013 blew the lid on the NSA’s massive covert surveillance program, recently appeared on camera via livestream to talk about privacy in an event hosted by
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Readers Explain What Trump’s Win Means for America 0