How much are social justice warriors costing their colleges?
"It turns out that advertising to the world that you believe in racial segregation and obedience to the loudest common denominator turns out not to be good for business."
Fraternity investigated over Facebook pics of drugs and underage girls
"One of the largest university fraternities in the US was under a new police investigation on Tuesday after the suspension of a Florida chapter whose students set up a Facebook page allegedly advertising drugs and featuring photographs of topless or semi-nude underage girls. The Facebook page has since been taken down, but screen grabs leaked to the Miami Herald and Miami New Times last week show posts from students seeking cocaine or selling Adderall, a popular stimulant 'study drug' that enables users to stay awake. In addition, a caption below one photograph of a topless girl claims she was 17 when the picture was taken." Continue reading →
Alabama candidate wins by 72 votes after sorority offers voters free drinks
"An candidate for the Tuscaloosa City School Board in Alabama has appeared to defeat his opponent by just 72 votes after a sorority got behind him by offering free drinks and limo rides to the polls to encourage people to vote. In all, more than 60 percent of the people who signed up to vote during the final week were college-aged women. In an email obtained by Al.com, University of Alabama sorority members were promised 'incentives' to vote for Cason Kirby and Lee Garrison. On Tuesday, stretch SUV limousines, vans and a passenger bus were seen taking students from Sorority Row to the polling place." Continue reading →
The Real Reason College Costs So Much
"In 1964, federal student aid was a mere $231 million. By 1981, the feds were spending $7 billion on loans alone, an amount that doubled during the 1980s and nearly tripled in each of the following two decades, and is about $105 billion today. Taxpayers now stand behind nearly $1 trillion in student loans. Meanwhile, grants have increased to $49 billion from $6.4 billion in 1981. By expanding eligibility and boosting the maximum Pell Grant by $500 to $5,350, the 2009 stimulus bill accelerated higher ed's evolution into a middle-class entitlement. Fewer than 2% of Pell Grant recipients came from families making between $60,000 and $80,000 a year in 2007. Now roughly 18% do." Continue reading →
Why College Football Will Be Dead Within 20 Years
"An acronym that has higher education administrators very worried is MOOC - Massive Open Online Course. In short, a MOOC is a tuition-free online course that can be taught to a massive number of students simultaneously. Pundits often talk about 'disruptive technology'; technology that brings about massive changes in life, business, or the economy. The phrase can be overused, but if anything qualifies, MOOCs are it. It's one thing to offer a course for free online, but the idea is crazy, right, that a college or university could replace traditional classroom education with online coursework for credit or even offer an entire degree online for free?" Continue reading →
Wave of dozens of player arrests continues to plague NFL
"Joe Lefeged is the 31st NFL player to be arrested since the Super Bowl, according to an extensive database of player arrests compiled by U-T San Diego. Two players, former Chicago Bears tight end Evan Rodriguez and former Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young, were arrested multiple times in that span. Twenty-eight of those players were on an NFL roster at the time of arrest, with three others, including Young, free agents. Since the last game of the 2012 season, these players have been charged with a variety of offenses, including public intoxication, assault, marijuana possession, illegal gun possession and drunken driving." Continue reading →
Excerpt from Michael Hastings’ “The Operators” Re: Death Threats
"I was standing outside the circle. Dave came up to me. 'You’re not going to fuck us, are you?' I answered what I always answer: 'I’m going to write a story; some of the stuff you’ll like, some of the stuff you probably won’t like.' Jake came up to me. 'We’ll hunt you down and kill you if we don’t like what you write,' he said. 'C. will hunt you down and kill you.' I looked at Jake. He had what I’d heard people in the military call retired colonel syndrome. A certain inferiority complex and bitterness about not rising to the rank of general. 'Well, I get death threats like that about once a year, so no worries.'" Continue reading →
Veterinary School the Latest Bad Deal in Higher Ed
"When I was in college, the conventional wisdom among students was that veterinary school was even harder to get into than medical school. Presumably this was because there were fewer veterinary schools than there are medical schools. I don't know if that's even true, but that's what we thought, and it was therefore assumed that veterinary grads were rare and that vets would always make a good living. No one even mentioned, back then, the massive debt loads that could be involved. Well, it turns out that demand for vets is falling, and that many vets nevertheless have six-figure debt loads while the starting salary is down to $45,500." Continue reading →
Colleges attempt to avoid tuition cost scrutiny by piling on student fees
"Student fees have for years been often criticized as a kind of stealth, second tuition imposed on unsuspecting families. But such fees are still on the rise on many campuses. And though their names can border on the comical - i.e., the 'student success fee' - there’s nothing funny about how they can add up. At the University of California Santa Cruz, where tuition runs to nearly $35,000 for non-residents, students every year pay more than 30 additional fees 2014 including a small charge for what’s billed as 'free' HIV testing. Students at Oklahoma State University are responsible for covering 18 different fees, including a 'life safety and security fee.'" Continue reading →
Behind the Scenes With The Trans-National Elite
"In the hallowed halls of the transnational elite, falling down drunkenness is viewed as just another day at the office. United Nations unelected senior level employees living off the labor of others are routinely voting thumbs up or down on another bloody 'humanitarian intervention' whilst incapable of exercising even basic motor skills. One wonders the state of the unelected rulers of the universe when matters such as the destruction of Libya are being put up for a vote. No wonder the United Nations was not able to see through the blatant lies of the NGOs advocating for a NATO-led invasion of Libya: they could not see beyond their own booze-filled snouts." Continue reading →