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We Are Not Transcending Anything
I took my daughter to run some errands at a local university yesterday, and in the middle of our tasks, as often happens, we needed to take a cookie break. We sat down upon a cold stone bench, and...
View ArticleDavid Horowitz Turn In Your Professor Effort Goes Defunct
Five years ago, ultraconservative David Horowitz created a web site mistitled “Students for Academic Freedom.” The whole “students” bit was added to make it appear that Horowitz wasn’t the driving...
View ArticleNut Cracked by University. Fish Waves Hands. Which is Stranger?
Stanley Fish doesn’t like the idea of unrestrained academic freedom. And in a gesture against the idea of unrestrained academic freedom, Stanley Fish points at the case of a tenured professor in Canada...
View ArticleHalderman offers Free Course on Electronic Voting
By September 3 2012, the apparently abortive online nominating voting via Americans Elect will have concluded. With hidden votes already happening and the secret ballot done away with, it will be a...
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Say Yes to the Future, No to Bank-Run America: Protest in Times Square May 15
I note in this morning’s Bangor Daily News that Governor Paul LePage and his Republican allies intend to cut funding for Head Start programs, despite solid empirical evidence that for every dollar...
View Article350.org Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Hits American Campuses (at least on...
In the 1980s, nearly two hundred colleges and universities across the United States agreed to divest — that is, stop investing their endowment funds — in businesses involved in the deeply racist...
View ArticleAnything Government Does, Business Does Better? Try the University of Phoenix
In the SBR Forum, “John Galt” writes: "Is there anything that the Government does better than the Private Sector? I ask this question because I honestly can't think of anything. I do realize there is a...
View Article49 Senators Vote to Double Student Loan Rates (Are Your Senators on the List?)
51 members of the United States Senate voted yesterday for S.1238, a bill to keep the interest rate for undergraduate loans at an annual rate of 3.4% rather than double the student loan rate to 6.8%...
View ArticleThe Can Kicks Back Campus Grassroots Effort: Dried Up
“The Can Kicks Back” depicts itself as a social movement of young people who all “individually” decided in 2012 taxing more poor people, taxing corporations less, and cutting social programs is a keen...
View ArticleUnKoch Your Campus
The Koch Brothers, who fund Republican candidates for public office, also donate money to colleges and universities. Supporting education is a wonderful thing to do. According to an organization...
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