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What’s in Store for Your SonsIn the 1970s, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson playfully warned mothers about the downsides of the cowboy business: “Mammas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys / Don't let ‘em pick guitars and drive them old trucks / Make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such.” That song was written before today's full-blooded assault on masculinity in American culture. It was a time when you could poke a little fun at traditional male identity while still honoring it. I have been a professor at Bucknell University for twenty years, and alas, I find...

LEWISBURG - Bucknell University President John Bravman has taken the students to task for failing to adhere to coronavirus protocols. He did so Thursday evening in an email to students announcing the university was immediately switching from in-person to remote instruction until further notice. “While the majority of you have taken great care to comply with COVID-19 guidelines — for which we are all so grateful — student compliance is falling, as noted by students, faculty and staff,” he wrote. He cited this email from a student: “In the past week, I have noticed that my peers have had an...

When the University of Chicago English Department announced over the summer that, in response to the protests after the death of George Floyd, they would only admit graduate students willing to work in Black Studies (a proclamation that, after media attention brought criticism, they recently removed from their webpage), observers of the increasing dominance of extremist ideas on race and race relations in higher education were not surprised. Indeed, as things go ever crazier inside American universities with respect to racial politics, it becomes more and more difficult for those of us on the inside, watching things deteriorate on a...

LEWISBURG, Pa. — There aren't many people on Bucknell University's campus as school is out for spring break. When students return, they won't be coming back for classes; instead, students living on campus will have to move out. The university starts "remote education mode" next week because of the coronavirus.

The president of Bucknell University is urging students and staffers to do some soul-searching after someone left a racist message on a professor’s classroom door. This is the second racial incident on campus in the past six months. Students at Bucknell University in Lewisburg have been on campus for less than a week. They’re just getting the news that a message described as racist and hateful was left on the whiteboard of professor’s office door. But who did it? “They do their things in secret so they don’t want to be known,” said student Alex Bloschichak. “It’s so really hateful...

The controversy over the display of the Confederate flag in the wake of the killing of nine black church members in Charleston, S.C., has reached the annual Union County Veterans Fourth of July Parade in Lewisburg. The 18th North Carolina Co. A re-enactors have been asked not to display the Confederate flag if it marches, parade chairman Kevin Bittenbender said Friday. The parade is scheduled to step off at 10 a.m. Saturday. The decision was made following a discussion by the parade committee's executive board, he said. He understands there will be some opposed to the decision, he said.

LEWISBURG — Three Bucknell University students were expelled Monday afternoon after making racist and violent remarks on Bucknell’s student-run radio station, WVBU, according to officials. “Administration found out about a radio program that aired the previous Friday in which some students were using reprehensible, inappropriate, inexcusable language,” Bucknell Vice President for Communications Andy Hirsch said. Authorities say they heard about the foul language from someone at a local prison who was listening to the program. The three students were suspended on Thursday. “All the individuals involved are going to be held fully accountable for their actions,” Hirsch said. Students we...

Imagine this situation. A group composed mostly of white males refuses to pay a Venezuelan man $1,000 for a lecture because they do not like what he plans to say. Next, two powerful figures in a large corporation publicly defame three customers of the corporation, one of them a woman. Their superiors fail to discipline them, and the corporation’s Public Relations department defends them. The above is not one more instance of oppression in our racist, sexist culture—which is what most anti-American college professors would immediately assume. Instead, it is another example of the inconceivable intolerance at today’s American universities...

-----Original Message----- From: owner-students@bucknell.edu [mailto:owner-students@bucknell.edu]On Behalf Of Steffen Rogers Sent: November 18,2003 15:31 To: students@bucknell.edu Subject: [STUDENTS:6082] URGENT: Alcohol Policy To All Students, This is an important letter. Please read it very carefully, for it may affect your ability to remain a Bucknell student. As I wrote to you in an open letter in the October 10th Bucknellian, I do truly care what happens to each and every one of you. I explained at that time my reasons for concern and hoped that the dangerous situation that has existed with the abuse of alcohol on this campus throughout this semester...

Horowitz is being brought to Bucknell courtesy of the College Republicans and Young America's Foundation. He's due to appear at 7 pm at the Gallery This event is open to the general public (that means you) and is FREE! I saw Horowitz at Delaware. Pray that some liberals come to do battle because it's a great show.

Sometime in 2004 Richard C. Vos, the admission dean at Claremont McKenna College, a highly regarded liberal arts school outside Los Angeles, developed a novel way to meet the school president’s demands to improve the quality of incoming classes. He would simply lie. Over the next seven years Vos provided falsified data–the numbers behind our ranking of Claremont McKenna in America’s Top Colleges–to the Education Department and others, artificially increasing SAT and ACT scores and lowering the admission rate, providing the illusion, if not the reality, that better students were coming to Claremont McKenna. He got away with it thanks...

And then talks to Bill O'Reilly about it.

You’re Getting Warm, Not Malcolm A. Kline, March 11, 2010 With their gift for seeing crises the rest of us cannot visualize, colleges and universities continue to believe in global warming, even while naysayers multiply outside of academia swayed merely by the lack of evidence for it. In this spirit of belief, the Bucknell University speaker series task force brought in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “Kennedy’s qualifications as an outdoorsman, lawyer, environmental activist, and master falconer—while impressive—do not lead to the conclusion that he is a reputable energy expert or climate scientist,” Scott Henry writes in The Counterweight, the alternative...

LEWISBURG - Bucknell University will host the series, "Avatar: Responses from Earth," this spring and fall. The series is an examination of various real-life cultural perspectives on ecology from "real life" traditions and disciplines on Earth in response to the success of the film "Avatar" as a sci-fi environmental parable, according to Alf Siewers, associate professor of English at Bucknell University. The series opens with the talk, "This Holy Earth: Ecological Vision in the Cosmic Cathedral," with Father Andrew Damick... Damick, who is a founder of the Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas, will discuss Christian panentheism as...

You see, I went to Bucknell. We're rivals, you know. So as a proud member of the Bucknell family, I've considered it my job to make occasional fun of our nemesis in Bethlehem. When I was in school, I even owned a T-shirt that said: ''Lehigh: Because not everyone can get into Bucknell.'' Sophomoric, I know. But then again, I was a sophomore. Now, I'm taking it back. I'm sorry, Lehigh. The reason is the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects our right to, among other things, freedom of speech. It's not something a private university like Bucknell or Lehigh...

Bucknell University, a well-regarded liberal arts institution set in a picturesque location in the rolling Pennsylvania countryside, looks entirely benign. Its campus is safe, its students intelligent. It counts among its alumni the famed author Philip Roth and Leslie Moonves, the president of CBS. It’s a college to which most parents would be proud to send their kids. But if your son or daughter is the type who might join the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC), you would be well-advised to send him or her somewhere else. Because Bucknell really, really does not want to hear what the students of...

Don’t Tread on Bill by: Malcolm A. Kline, December 22, 2008 American academics have mustered more support for Weather Underground alum and tenured professor Bill Ayers than they ever have for the country which they work in. Perhaps this should not surprise. The man whom failed presidential candidate John McCain dubbed “some old terrorist” and the land of his birth and residence have frequently been at cross purposes, although his intellectual fans do not see it that way. “Any person with basic knowledge of American history in the 1960s and 1970s knows that the Weather Underground did not kill anyone...

LEWISBURG -- A 73-year-old retired biology professor was convicted Monday of 20 felony counts of possessing child pornography following a trial before Union County Judge Louise O. Knight. Jack E. Harclerode, of 1225 Supplee Mill Road, Lewisburg, could face a maximum of 140 years in state prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced within the next three months. Meanwhile, he remains free on $100,000 cash bail. "I really don't think you're surprised" by the conviction, Knight told the elderly man after she announced her verdict. Harclerode had waived his right to a jury trial. Defense attorney Peter Campana, of Williamsport,...

LEWISBURG (PA)-- Neither President Bush nor Republican presidential nominee John McCain has shown leadership during the financial crisis afflicting the nation, a renowned author and presidential historian visiting the Valley said Tuesday. The Wall Street bailout crisis has revealed a "sad leadership vacuum in this country," presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said before giving an address at Bucknell University. "Here you have the president of the United States in the middle of a crisis and the people were not listening to him in his own party," she said. "Then, there was McCain, rushing to Washington, hoping I think, to corral...

Vandals Trash Bucknell's Conservative Newspaper A student-run newspaper at Bucknell University was the target of vandals last month as over half of the copies in the paper's first press run were destroyed and/or removed from campus. The attack came as The Counterweight, Bucknell's conservative newspaper, highlighted criticism of the university's sponsorship of "Focus the Nation," a high-tech discussion on climate change. "This vandalism is unacceptable," said Sarah Schubert, the paper's editor. Ms. Schubert believes the act "amounts to censorship. "On a college campus, the free and vigorous exchange of ideas should be wholeheartedly defended by everyone," argued Ms. Schubert. On...