May, 2008 Entries

May 30

    • Only Universities have This Kind of Head Executive
    • Junkie U.
    • New Study on Women in the Sciences
    • The Global Governance Alignment
    • Prof. Arthur C. Brooks on Happiness
    • CatholicHigherEd.org
    • Congressman Condemns Anti-Semitism at UCI
    • Pompous Circumstances

May 29

    • Creepy Bean-Counting
    • Law School 101
    • UCLA: 'Experience' in Porn 'Ed' Counts
    • A Downside to Merit Aid Programs
    • UD Profs Weigh in on Latest Indoctrination
    • A Convention Report by a Student
    • Speech Codes and Culture

May 28

    • Re: Divestment
    • In Defense of Terror-Free Divestment
    • Higher-Ed Reforms -- Two Approaches

May 27

    • How Hard Do They Work
    • Jonah Goldberg at Northwestern Tonight
    • Viewing People as Individuals or as Group Members
    • 'The Library in the New Age'
    • Destandardization
    • Dartmouth Democracy

May 26

    • Re: Divestment
    • Legislation to Make UC Divest in Iran
    • Re: Technology and Dumbness
    • PBC in the News
    • Campuses Figure in Terror-Recruiting Calculus
    • Obama's Buddy Khalidi

May 25

    • AAUP Protests 'Security-Fee' Censorship
    • Islamicizing American History Textbooks
    • The Red and Black

May 24

    • ‘The excretory experience became associated with the proletariat’

May 23

    • Some Friday-Afternoon Levity
    • Whites Invading Black Colleges
    • Board-Packing at Dartmouth?
    • Campus Leftists Play the Security Card
    • Re: SAT Writing
    • Re: Harvard and Taxes
    • Apocalypse Now at UCI
    • No, Massachusetts Shouldn't Tax Harvard
    • Look Who's Really Paying for Foreign Students

May 22

    • 'Hysteria' Over 'The New McCarthyism'
    • Re: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
    • We Don't Need No Data, and No Writing Rules Neither
    • A Call to Restore Theology as Knowledge
    • Universities Accepting Strings-Attached Tobacco Money
    • Evolutionary Psychiatrist Probes Class-IQ Connection
    • The Humanities' Decline
    • Digital and Pedagogical Dumbing Down
    • Challenging Post-Colonialism
    • In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
    • One Professor’s Encounter with Afrocentrism

May 21

    • Charter-School Officials Attack News Crew
    • The Perils of Honest Grading
    • More at Furman
    • Bill Ayers the Educator
    • Re: Title IX in Academia
    • Things They Do Look Awful C-C-Cold

May 20

    • Judge a Thesis by Its Title
    • More Schools Fall for the Siren Song of Football
    • A New Form of Grade Inflation
    • Re: Sopranos
    • UD Trustees Derelict, Not Just 'Disappointing'
    • Colleges Not Using SAT Writing?
    • Re: Title IX in Academia
    • Hating ROTC

May 19

    • Diversity Diversity
    • Title IX in Academia
    • White People and 'The Ivy League'
    • Temple U. Ideologue Bestrides Intelligence Community
    • Terrorism Too Complex for MSA
    • Indispensable New Tome on Anti-Semitism in Islamic Scriptures

May 17

    • Mixed Outcome at UD
    • 'Nuclear' Studies?
    • Roger That

May 16

    • Endangered Species?
    • Make Wikipedia College-Paper Citable?
    • Quranic War? Off Academic Radar
    • A Disturbing Survey
    • Chicago School

May 15

    • Re: Sopranos
    • The Sopranos -- A Classic?
    • Re: Intellectual Diversity
    • Don't Conservatives Deserve Amnesty, Too?
    • A Little Military History Needed
    • U.D. ResLife Update: Baa, Baa
    • Saudi Prof Flogged for Coffee Date with Woman

May 14

    • Reader Mail: Yale and WFB
    • Give Low Grades, Lose Your Job
    • Terrific Article on 'Sustainability'
    • Johns Hopkins Works With Army on Biodefense
    • Academics Going Virtual
    • The Reform that Wasn't
    • The News(eum) is in
    • Scrutinizing the 'Residence Life' Movement
    • Re: Academics' Political Donations

May 13

    • University of Toledo Suspends Woman for Views on Gays
    • Intellectual Diversity, the Wrong Way
    • Academia and Elitism
    • A Hero at San Diego State University
    • Mark Bauerlein's New Book
    • Bernard Lewis on Middle Eastern Scholarship
    • The Education-Industrial-Political Racket
    • Separating Wheaton from the Chaff

May 12

    • Head of Canada's 'First Family of Terror' Radicalized at University of Ottawa
    • Sampson's Freedom to Read
    • Harvard as Hedge Fund?
    • Interviews With Prof Suing Students
    • Affirmative Action in Arizona
    • An Inconvenient Professor

May 11

    • Reader Mail re: Rachel's Law
    • Light Show
    • History Textbooks Uncritical on Islam
    • David Horowitz's Attorney Letter to UW-Milwaukee

May 09

    • Benefits of Tenure
    • D.C. Beset by Frivolous Art
    • The Political Difficulty of Ending Multiculturalism
    • Re: Campus Rape
    • Re: Rachel's Law
    • Re: Defining Campus Rape
    • Toward a Federal 'Rachel's Law'
    • Fake Guns Cool at UC

May 08

    • UNH Releases Campus Rape Report
    • Reader Mail re: Predatory Education
    • West Virginia U. Votes No Confidence in President

May 07

    • Universities Study Internet Facilitation of Terrorism
    • Update on ResLife Program
    • Tom Wolfe on Big Thinkers
    • Re: News Out of California
    • Shine Sun on Petrodollars in Our Universities
    • Is It Too Easy to Get College Loans?
    • What a Commencement Address!

May 06

    • 'Evangelicalism Rebounds in Academe'
    • Don't Dismiss Expelled
    • Breaking News Out of California
    • Studying vs. Democracy
    • Re: Unromantic Education
    • Unromantic Education
    • Breaking: Objectivists Have a Charitable Foundation
    • Re: Saletan
    • Re: Saletan
    • Predatory Education
    • An Odd Argument Against Affirmative Action
    • What Has Become of Higher Ed?
    • Re: Life at Dartmouth
    • Group Traits and Liberal Education
    • History Lesson
    • Ayers at AERA
    • Unshowed

May 05

    • Nabokov’s Last Work to be Published
    • Shouted Down at Smith
    • Ayers Rises
    • Re: Horowitz Cartoon
    • Which U.S. Scholars Soft-Pedaled Counter-Terrorist Vocab?
    • UD Faculty Must Step Up
    • Show Me the Data
    • Re: Horowitz Cartoon
    • Anti-Jihad U.
    • Death of Hamilton
    • Life in Washington
    • Life at Dartmouth

May 03

    • 'Wake Up,' UC, 'and Smell the Hummus!'
    • ResLife: Now You See It, Now You Don't

May 02

    • Horowitz on the MSA Cartoon
    • Coatsworth of 'Hitler, Too' Fame Named Columbia Dean
    • Northwestern 'Clarifies' the Wright Controversy
    • Lone G.O.P. Ranger
    • Re: Ignored Questions
    • The As-Usual Ignored Questions
    • Take ‘Sustainability’ Programs Off Life Support
    • ASMEA vs. MESA
    • Beliefs of Academia

May 01

    • Rachel's Law a Done Deal
    • Reader Mail re: MSA and Horowitz
    • The Muslim Students' Association vs. David Horowitz
    • Re: Dr. Wright
    • Re: Dr. Wright
    • Dr. Wright
    • No Fighting Irish Need Apply
    • Academics' Political Donations
    • Green Pasture for Litigation Addicts?

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