Campus Politics
Power, identity, and speech in the new American university
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The Deepening Divide on College Campuses, Cont'd
CMC President looking like he's rather be anywhere else and unable to say…
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Why Don't Students Strike? Because They Think They're Customers
Rob had a really great post this morning asking why American college students don’t strike the way students at universities…
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Jeff Roberson / AP When Minorities Demand Equal Respect
Students from Yale to the University of Missouri are protesting the one-sided equation that has excused offensive behavior for years.
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Michael B. Thomas / Getty Free Speech Is No Diversion
Defenders of the First Amendment aren’t distracting from attention from racism—they’re preserving the tools necessary to struggle against it.
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'Alienating the White People Who Actually Believe in Equality'
Earlier this week we heard briefly from a staff member of The Maneater, the student newspaper at the University of…
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The Deepening Divide on College Campuses
Our youth are waking up and seeing their true power. We don't need…
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Where the Yale Halloween Email Came From
One interesting bit of context to the kerfuffle at Yale: I was a student at Northwestern University from…
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Vilification of Student Activists at Yale
The attacks on individuals have obscured the historical and contemporary injustices that sparked their protests.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Campus Activists Weaponize ‘Safe Space’
A journalist at the University of Missouri is mobbed by a crowd insisting he is the aggressor.
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A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us
It’s too easy, and also rash and risky, to criticize people on the basis of perhaps-out-of-context social media snippets. …
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fotumania! / Flickr The New Intolerance of Student Activism
A fight over Halloween costumes at Yale has devolved into an effort to censor dissenting views.
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'Maybe This Is the Real Ferguson Effect'
That comes from a reader slack-jawed over the escalating situation at the University of Missouri and the calls for its…
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Bob Child / AP The Danger of Erasing Yale’s Confederate Ties
The elite university needs to address Calhoun College’s history without wiping out important educational opportunities.
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Bob Child / AP The White-Supremacist Lineage of a Yale College
The elite university still honors the South Carolina senator best known for praising the morality of slavery.
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Andrew B. Myers / The Atlantic The Coddling of the American Mind
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.
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AP The Renaissance of Student Activism
“There has been a real powerful sense ... that the future they were promised has been taken away from them.”
