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Read moreTrigger warnings and the danger of overprotecting students
Women and the Draft: Equal rights must come with equal responsibilities
“Under the Senate bill passed on Tuesday, women turning 18 on or after Jan. 1, 2018, would be forced to register for Selective Service, as men must do now. Failure to register could result in the loss of various forms of federal aid, including Pell grants, a penalty that men already face. Because the policy…
Read moreClosed minds on campus
An excerpt: Last month, in the early hours, an act of traumatising racist violence occurred on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Students woke up to find that someone had written, in chalk, the words “Trump 2016” on various pavements and walls around campus. “I think it was an act of violence,” said…
Read moreTrump’s Bizarre Theory
“Trump’s theory is, apparently, that anyone can get any judge disqualified for ‘conflict of interest’ just by saying things that the judge finds offensive enough,” Volokh wrote. “Don’t like the Jewish judge on your case? Say things that are critical of Jews, and now the judge presumably has to step aside because of a conflict…
Read moreAli
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another…
Read moreNo Offense…but…
“Look at my African-American over here.”!!! I’m going to call the “Clue Clucks Clan” the next time I see one of them at a Trump rally. I remember back in the day when someone wanted to talk about black people with me, they would start out with, “No offense but, those NIGGERS over there get on…
Read moreDue Process On Campus
Excerpt: “As the intimacy progressed, knowing that they both wanted to engage in sexual intercourse, Jane Doe advised Plaintiff that she was not on birth control. Accordingly, Plaintiff asked if he should put on a condom. Jane Doe clearly and unequivocally responded ‘yes.’ . . . They proceeded to engage in consensual sexual intercourse, during which Jane…
Read moreSign Them Up!
An excerpt: “While this is unfair and sexist — women should be allowed to serve in combat roles just as men are — it is immoral to force people to go to war, no matter their sex,” Julie Mastrine, the petition’s author and Care2’s activism marketing and social media manager, says in the petition document….
Read moreThe “Dear Colleague” Letter and the inevitable backlash
An excerpt from THIS article: As colleges face increasing pressure to aggressively investigate reports of sex assaults, some critics say the rights of the accused are being trampled. Now they want federal guidance on the issue to be tossed out. Their target: a “Dear Colleague Letter” issued by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of…
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