Oh, save us from scary ideas! KATHERINE BYRON, a senior at Brown University and a member of its Sexual Assault Task Force, considers it her duty to make Brown a safe place for rape victims, free from anything that might prompt memories of trauma. So when she heard last fall that a student group had organized a debate about campus sexual assault between Jessica Valenti, the founder of feministing.com, and
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August 2, 2014
US Civil Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki: 18-22 year-olds don’t deserve First Amendment speech rights [Darleen Click]
… because Science™!!1! says they have mushy brains … Here’s an excerpt from the tentative transcript, which matches my recollection of the comments; Commissioner Yaki is questioning Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: And it seems to me that there are ways that you can create a very apprehensive coordinate [possible transcription error -EV] of sexual harassment on a campus, but you [Greg Lukianoff -EV] probably
December 14, 2013
“Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College” [Darleen Click]
Well worth the 41 minute investment …
January 15, 2013
Julia ethics: “It would be easier in some ways than working, taking classes and then spending years paying back loans.” [Darleen Click]
Obama’s preferred Life of Julia on the local level More New York City co-eds are turning to a new source of income — sugar daddies — to cope with the rising cost of their college tuition, surprising statistics released yesterday reveal. And the majority is enrolled at New York University, according to the sugar-daddy dating site SeekingArrangement.com. Nearly 300 NYU co-eds joined the site’s service last year seeking a “mutually