Posts tagged 'universities'

First-Year Males Must Attend Anti-Rape Presentation at Hamilton College

by SteveK @ Thursday, September 30th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education

Here’s another troubling development from the halls of academia.
Incoming freshmen men at Hamilton College must attend a mandatory presentation of “She Fears You,” a program where they will be pressed to acknowledge their personal complicity in a “rape culture” and to change their “rape-supportive” beliefs and attitudes. First-year men were informed via e-mail that attendance [...]

Higher Education Next Bubble to Burst?

by SteveK @ Tuesday, September 7th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Education

We can only hope. But that would only represent half of what’s needed to restore some semblance of respectability to the education industry.
Roger Kimball ponders the outrageous cost of higher education these days, which seems to have an inverse relationship with the quality of education received. Four years at a top school will cost upwards [...]

Courses on Women Get Transfer Credit But Not Men’s Studies

by SteveK @ Monday, June 28th, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Education

“Literature By and About Men” is a course offered at Monterey Peninsula College by English professor David Clemens that focuses on “depictions of maleness, manhood, and masculinity in essays, films, short stories, and poetry either by men or about men.”
Aaron Graham, an English major, transferred to the University of Wyoming this year and requested transfer [...]

Violent Canadian Protesters Shut Down Ann Coulter Speech

by SteveK @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education

Political pundit Ann Coulter was scheduled to give a speech at a university in Canada only to have it canceled after a violent mob of indoctrinated protesters (aka students) shut down the event.
Here is living proof that the political left is pretty much the opposite of everything it claims to be, and is basically indistinguishable [...]

Understanding Radical Islam – Part 3

by SteveK @ Thursday, January 7th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, Media, Middle East, Religion

In this last installment we get to the schools, and thus the heart of the matter as to why so many Americans are unfamiliar with the information provided in parts 1 and 2. The education system in this country is to blame for whitewashing Islam with political correctness in order to fit the overwhelmingly liberal [...]

Understanding Radical Islam – Part 1

by SteveK @ Thursday, December 31st, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, History, Religion

For too long have Western apologists, primarily in academia and the media, presented the American people with a sugarcoated version of Islam. One of their main arguments is that the religion has been hijacked, but this is actually false. They also claim that terrorists are poor people pushed into extremism, which is also false, as [...]

America’s Failing Education System: Grade Inflation and Politicization

by SteveK @ Monday, October 5th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government

A survey was conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) titled “Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions.” Highlights of the survey include the following:

Only 21% of respondents recognized the phrase “government of the people, by the people, for [...]

The Influence of Marxism on Barack Obama and America

by SteveK @ Tuesday, September 8th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, History

An article posted over at Pajamas Media called “A U.S. President, Raised on KGB Propaganda” shows how Marxism is a big part of Obama’s worldview, and indeed that of most liberal Democrats. Original article can be found here.
The important fact about modern-day anti-Americanism is that it spreads almost exclusively among impressionable cultural elites who are [...]

Former KGB Agent Explains Demoralization of America

by SteveK @ Tuesday, May 5th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, History

This video is a nice follow-up to The University Campus: Bias and Prejudice in Higher Education. Very frightening and prophetic in many ways. Yuri Bezmenov is a former KGB agent and an expert on ideological subversion. He explains the de-moralization of American society, and how generation after generation was brainwashed by the education system.
He explains [...]

The University Campus: Bias and Prejudice in Higher Education

by SteveK @ Friday, May 1st, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.”
As anyone who has been to college or a university knows, leftwing ideas and perspectives dominate every part of the campus. Higher education used to be about open debate, critical thinking, and honest [...]

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