Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the emergency request to hear the case on Thursday, meaning the high court won’t overturn rulings by an Indiana district court and the US Court of Appeals in Chicago, which upheld the mandate. There were no dissenting opinions cited from other Supreme Court justices. The …
Read More »Wayne Dupree: So now rocks are racist? US university caves in and removes a giant boulder because woke students demand it
The university last week surrendered common sense when it agreed to remove a boulder which students deemed controversial. It seems the Black Student Union and other ‘woke’ activists disapproved of the way a local newspaper described it nearly 100 years ago, using the N-word. When just a tiny minority of …
Read More »Let’s scrap university, they’re just teaching youngsters to be snowflakes. It’s time they learnt a trade instead
Instead of gender studies and ways to weaken the language to the point where it’s so soft it can never give offence, how about we teach young people how to lay bricks, hammer a nail, wield a chisel or plaster a wall? Imagine if an old-fashioned war broke out tomorrow …
Read More »HIV vaccine trial launched at University of Oxford in bid to end ‘40-year wait’
The trial, called HIV-CORE 0052, aims to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of the HIVconsvX vaccine, the University said. The project is part of the European Aids Vaccine Initiative, funded by the European Commission. The jab is known as a “mosaic,” meaning it can target a broad range of …
Read More »Oxford University may enlist ‘SENSITIVITY READERS’ to censor student publications to protect readers from being offended – media
Oxford’s governing student council overwhelmingly passed a motion last month to allow the student union (SU) to set up a “student consultancy of sensitivity readers,” who would be elected and paid to screen articles by Cherwell and other outlets, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. Readers would block the publication or …
Read More »Rutgers University condemns anti-Semitic hate, is then forced to apologize by pro-Palestinian students, sparking backlash online
The university released a statement this week condemning the “sharp rise in hostile sentiments and anti-Semitic violence in the United States.” The statement was signed by Chancellor Christopher Molloy and Executive Vice Chancellor for Research and Academic Affairs Francine Conway. It referred to how the most-recent fighting between the Israel …
Read More »University student ordered to undergo PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION & then suspended after questioning definition of ‘microaggressions’
The bizarre saga begins in October 2018, when Kieran Bhattacharya, a student at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine, attended a panel discussion on the subject of ‘microaggressions.’ During a Q&A session, Bhattacharya asked the presenter, an assistant dean at the university, to clarify what constitutes a mini …
Read More »‘Vanity project’: University of Winchester unveils £24,000 statue of Greta Thunberg amid storm of criticism
The bronze statue of Thunberg was unveiled at the university’s West Downs Campus on Tuesday. The monument, which is basically a life-size figure of the teen climate activist, is dubbed ‘Make a Difference’ and is supposed to show the university’s “ongoing commitment to sustainability and social justice.” The statue has …
Read More »Too risque? Pakistani students expelled from university after hugging on camera
Photos and videos circulating on the internet show a young woman proposing to her partner as she bends down on one knee and offers him a bouquet. The man then takes the flowers and pulls her up for a hug. The heartwarming moment was met with applause and cheers from …
Read More »‘Utter madness’: Manchester University mocked for replacing ‘mother’ & ‘father’ with ‘GUARDIAN’ in woke ‘inclusive language’ guide
Manchester University released its new guide for “inclusive language” on Wednesday, but the document started to gain traction after being covered by the Spectator’s Steerpike column. In its guide, the university declared that gendered language should be replaced to avoid offense, with “they/their/them” being used instead of “he/she,” and the …
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