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Being powerful, Margaret Thatcher once said, is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. On college campuses, that rule applies to “sex columnists” who tell us they’re bold and cutting-edge for writing about their sex lives in the student newspaper. These columns are overwhelmingly written by uncreative girls who have modeled their personalities and lifestyles after Carrie Bradshaw from “Sex And The City”—right down to the slang, the clothes and, apparently, writing a ludicrous sex column. “Vibrators, cross-dressing, oral sex, multiple orgasms, masturbation, bondage — no topic is too hot to handle,” USA...

Sen. Randy Richardville on Thursday (August 20th) introduced bipartisan legislation that would help make college campuses safer by allowing CCW permit holders to carry a weapon on college campuses. “Crimes occur on college campuses just like any other place,” said Richardville, a Monroe Republican. “Students, faculty and visitors, who have permits and have undergone the proper training and background checks, should have the right to carry a concealed weapon for their protection while on campus.” Senate Bill 747, sponsored by Richardville, would remove college campuses from the no-carry zones for concealed weapons. This would allow individuals with CCW permits to...

Gun-rights advocates have won victories in several states in recent months allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons in public parks, taverns and their work places. So it came as a surprise to Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield that he couldn't persuade his colleagues to pass a law allowing students at public colleges to carry concealed firearms on campus. The bill died this spring in the Republican-controlled legislature -- one of 34 straight defeats nationwide for people who believe a gun wouldn't be out of place in a college student's knapsack. aucous debates over the parameters of the Second Amendment...

A participant of a summer camp on Tech's campus has been confirmed by Schiffert Health Center to have a case of H1N1 influenza, according to an e-mail to on-campus students from Housing and Dining Services. The H1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu, recently hit pandemic status in early June, indicating widespread global activity, as defined by the World Health Organization. According to the Center for Disease Control website, the pandemic status only reflects the spread of the virus to over 70 countries and not its severity. Housing's e-mail, sent by Associate Director for Occupancy Management Kenneth Belcher, clarified...

A BRISBANE woman was jailed for eight months in the United Arab Emirates for claiming she was raped by three men after her drink was spiked in a hotel bar. The woman, identified only as Amanda, said she ordered one drink from the bar in the United Arab Emirates hotel she was staying, but then remembered nothing until waking up the next afternoon. Amanda...was arrested after reporting her rape to police and later sentenced to 11 months' jail for having illicit sexual relations and one month for consumption of alcohol. Amanda said she had extensively researched the customs of the...

WASHINGTON — The First Amendment guarantees Americans the right to free speech. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to possess firearms. ----------------------------cut------------------------- Many gun-rights advocates are arguing that college campuses, which are supposed to be open to diversity of thought, provocative dialogue, politics and protest, are hardly bastions of free speech when it comes to discussing firearms. "The fact is, the topic is so explosive," said Robert Shibley, spokesman for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which tracks discriminatory practices against students involved in conservative issues on campus. They've been dealing with "more and more" complaints about efforts...

BATON ROUGE -- Students 21 and older, faculty and other employees with concealed weapons permits should be able to tote firearms on their college campuses, a House committee decided Tuesday. Members of the Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice voted 9-6 for House Bill 27 by Rep. Ernest Wooton, R-Belle Chasse, its chairman, sending the measure to the House floor where it died last year. The bill cleared the same committee last year, 11-3. Wooton said Tuesday he feels "comfortable" he now has the votes to pass it. Gov. Bobby Jindal said at a news conference Monday that he...

The House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice voted 9-6 today for a bill that would allow those with concealed handgun permits to carry their weapons on campus. House Bill 27 by Rep. Ernest Wooton, R-Belle Chasse, was approved over the objection of college students and officials who said the measure would make their campuses less safe. Officials at Tulane and Loyola universities have said they are opposed to the bill, which would allow the concealed guns on campus if the individual has passed a background check and is qualified to carry a concealed weapon. The bill would allow...

There have been two markedly different tales of violence and bloodshed from two different college towns that ended two different ways, reflecting the vast differences in culture and the gaping chasm that exists between the political correctness of the gun-free zone mentality and the common sense of being prepared. Story #1 comes from Middletown, CT, where 21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich will not see another birthday because a man identified by police as Stephen Morgan shot her dead on May 6 at an off-campus bookstore café. Morgan was caught by a surveillance camera with a gun in his hand. Alarming about this...

God & Country on Campus by: Malcolm A. Kline, April 29, 2009 PC CatholicismApparently, Providence College (PC) is trying to move beyond Catholic in Name Only status to a more impromptu version of Catholicism. When school officials demurred over a planned talk at the school by former U. S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., one of the reasons that they gave for their reluctance was “additional concerns about Trancredo’s views contradicting with those of the Catholic Church.” Catholic Tancredo racked up a 100 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee as an elected representative but was asked to speak...

Last week, an unruly mob of radical protestors at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill chased former U.S. congressman and anti-illegal immigration spokesman Tom Tancredo from his speaking engagement. Police were forced to use pepper spray at one point while protestors tried to push their way into an already packed room. Tancredo stopped speaking when protestors outside the building broke a window in the lecture hall (video) . Last night, it initially appeared that a similar mob might do the same to another former congressman, Virgil Goode, a Virginian who is an outspoken opponent of affirmative action and shares views...

'THE HOLSTER IS A STATEMENT,' says UConn sophomore Philip Axelrod, 20, of Meriden, who is organizing a weeklong campaign on the Storrs campus next week, in which he and about a dozen other UConn students will wear empty holsters to class to protest their inability to carry handguns on campus. (PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANT / April 16, 2009) Philip Axelrod and Sara Adler say they don't want to be defenseless targets. "There are people out there who are off-balance and who shoot up schools," Axelrod, 20, said. "I don't want to be caught up in a situation where I...

DENVER — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched an investigation into a rowdy student protest that prevented former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration, from delivering a speech Tuesday night on campus.University Chancellor Holden Thorp said the investigation by the school's Department of Public Safety could result in criminal charges. The Division of Student Affairs is also probing the incident, he said, and that students could face Honor Court proceedings as a result

Do you think it's a good idea to be armed during a mass shooting? Diane Sawyer and the producers of ABC's 20/20 aren't so sure. In fact, on Friday, April 10, 2009, Sawyer spent a full hour trying desperately to prove how dangerous guns are and how ordinary people can't possibly defend themselves with firearms. The show's snarky title: "If I Only Had A Gun." Slanted information filled the report, seemingly pulled from the press releases of the Brady Campaign, with not a single dissenting opinion. The most egregious slight of hand was a rigged experiment that struggled to show...

Some Tarrant County College students wanted to wear empty gun holsters to school because they wanted the right to carry concealed handguns on campus - with a license. A Young Conservatives student group at Lone Star College's Tomball campus wanted to hand out a tongue-in-cheek "Top-Ten Gun Safety Tips." At both schools, administrators told the groups to stop or risk campus sanctions. O'Neil: "They're unusual in several respects. But most especially because they involve attempts to discuss in a perhaps insensitive, but basically humorous fashion the issue of guns on campus." That's Bob O'Neil, the director of the Thomas Jefferson...

CNN) -- Students at Radford University in Virginia locked their doors and were being warned to stay inside Thursday after a man was shot and killed near campus. A man was shot in the chest and killed in a residential area a couple of blocks from the school's Radford, Virginia, campus at about 9:10 p.m., according to university spokesman Michael Hemphill. He said authorities believe the shooter then fled onto campus. In a series of phone calls, e-mails and text messages, students were being warned that the university was on lockdown.

by , Hudson NYDuring a recent visit to several university campuses in the U.S., I discovered that there is more sympathy for Hamas there than there is in Ramallah. Listening to some students and professors on these campuses, for a moment I thought I was sitting opposite a Hamas spokesman or a would-be-suicide bomber. I was told, for instance, that Israel has no right to exist, that Israel’s “apartheid system” is worse than the one that existed in South Africa and that Operation Cast Lead was launched only because Hamas was beginning to show signs that it was interested in...

A group of Mormons visited Central Michigan University's campus Thursday afternoon as part of a mission calling. Part of their mission on campus is to explain rumors about the Mormon beliefs, said Elder Josh Price, 21 of Arizona. "We want to dispel misconceptions, like 'Mormons' have a million wives,'" he said. The group walked through campus around noon with a giant Book of Mormon replica, stopping briefly in the Pierce Hall plaza. They were fulfilling part of a mission that has taken them around the United States, and some of them around the world. The replica was made by missionaries...

Pat Casten, College Republicans Chairman, Lake Forest College, read a statistic that only 25% of his liberal college campus was "conservative". So he went to the college and requested "diversity" funding to represent this "minority" and was successful! Spread the word on this technique.

Here is a surprisingly unbiased piece from Washington (com)Post on pro-Second Amendment student groups and their efforts to legalize the right carry concealed firearms in university campuses for self protection. Read on

MONMOUTH, Ore. - Two Oregon legislators believe the state's college campuses are violating state law when it comes to concealed weapons. It is legal in Oregon to carry a licensed concealed weapon in a public place, which gun rights advocates insist includes colleges and universities. But campus officials have policies that state otherwise. The issue came to light again after Western Oregon University student Jeffrey L. Maxwell was cited last month for possession of a gun in a public building on the Monmouth campus. Rep. Bruce Hanna (R-Roseburg) and Rep. Kim Thatcher (R-Keizer) , as well as some students, believe...

The Hawaii County prosecutor is charging a young man with two class C felonies for a college prank. He popped a couple of coke bottles to make a bang, which apparently startled someone. On a slow day at the old folks home this “crime” might rise to the level of mischief, but TERRORISM, manufacturing prohibited EXPLOSIVES, that’s pure paranoia. If baking powder and vinegar qualify as prohibited explosives [presumably the” common kitchen ingredients”used] so does pork and beans.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2009 – Military veterans transitioning from service to the classroom face challenges more complex than simply memorizing dates, learning theories and mastering equations. Adjusting to the college environment, in general, often is the most difficult part of the transition from military life, said John Schupp, who recently launched the Supportive Education for the Returning Veteran program at Cleveland State University in Ohio, specifically designed to help veteran students make those adjustments. The program is open to veterans only and is geared to ease them into student life rather than let them become overwhelmed, Schupp said. Campus life...

Should a public university, funded by taxpayers, be able to censor controversial speech on campus? According to the University of Calgary, the answer to this question is a resounding "yes." In spite of its stated mission to "seek truth and disseminate knowledge," and in spite of advertising itself as "a place of education and scholarly inquiry," the University of Calgary has charged some of its own students with "trespassing" because they set up a pro-life display on their own campus this past November. It wasn't always so. In 2006 and 2007, the University of Calgary erected signs stating that the...

AUSTIN — Michael Guzman uses his concealed handgun license to carry a lightweight stainless steel .45-caliber pistol for self-defense. The 25-year-old Texas State University senior, a former Marine, takes his Kimber Ultra Carry II firearm just about everywhere — except school. State law prohibits him from bringing the firearm on campus. Guzman would like to see that change this year, and legislators appear to be listening. Lawmakers are drafting bills — one to authorize the ability to carry a gun on campus and another to allow licensed handgun owners to openly carry their weapons — that likely will be the...

The right to carry a concealed handgun comes with a certain honor. It is voluntary action that requires a substantial investment of time and money. The concealed carrier must obtain a permit, undergo a background check and complete a sequence of basic training in handgun usage. He or she must obtain a firearm and holster, which together cost several hundred dollars plus the cost of ammunition. Most concealed carriers will also invest considerable time and money in going to the firing range to practice shooting. Anybody who has fired a gun on more than several occasions can give you a...

“Apparently to the College Democrats, making fun of Christianity, and specifically a memorial to aborted unborn children is humor. To me, it is flagrant, disrespectful and downright disgusting. The fact that these crosses remained displayed in the College Democrats’ office for over 24 hours just adds to the sheer lack of respect they have for Christians on campus.”- College Republican source, identity withheld for his protection pending investigationThis is a Pat Dollard.com exclusive.Back in October, The Washington Times reported on allegations of an ominous and potentially dangerous atmosphere of hostility and intolerance for campus Conservatives, free speech, and apparently now,...

When Virginia Tech authorities arrived Wednesday night at a cafe inside the Graduate Life Center, they found a decapitated female victim who had arrived on campus just two weeks ago and a young man they have now charged with killing her.

No details yet. Alert sent to all students: VT Police have confirmed a murder in the Graduate Life Center. A suspect is in custody. Stay where you are and stay vigilant. Stay away for GLC. 8:16pm

Ever since my son was a tot, I have squirreled away as much as I could muster for his college education. Education is a priority in our family, but every year that goes by, it becomes clearer that nothing I could ever amass will dent what it will cost to send him to college. Despite his desire, college may be out of the question for him — and for anybody else earning less than an auto executive's salary. The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education reported recently that the rising cost of education has put it virtually out-of-reach...

Protests at The New School, where a student uprising over the leadership of the university’s president, Bob Kerrey, led to clashes with the police and at least one arrest on Thursday morning, took another wild turn later on Thursday evening. A little after 11:30 p.m., Mr. Kerrey emerged from a university building on Fifth Avenue south of 14th Street to a sea of a few hundred protesters chanting for his resignation. As Mr. Kerrey walked down Fifth Avenue toward 12th Street, about 30 protesters began following him, some of them shouting insults. As the crowd’s pace quickened, so did Mr....

Recently, a handful of people forwarded me a letter that was sent from the President of GunFreeKids.org as well as Toby Hoover (Executive Director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence) and whose recipient is unknown because the address has been redacted. The content and context of the letter indicates that it was sent to a college in Ohio (more likely it was sent to ALL public colleges). This letter warned of the gun lobby’s attempts to preempt public universities across the country, forcing their hands to allow concealed carry within their borders, and was laden with reasons why universities...

Politically correct is alive and well on campus says Young America's Foundation, which has named the top-10 momenst, including a transgender speaker at West Point and elementary school kids forbidden to dress like Pilgrims and Indians at a Thanksgiving pageant, to prevent "racial stereotypes."

In a statement, the Zionist Freedom Alliance said “we call on state officials, the President of the University of California, the Chancellor, the Dean of Students, faculty, and the student body to take a unified stand against the continued harassment of Jewish and pro-Israel students on this campus" Arab students disrupted a pro-Israel event at the campus of the University of California at Berkeley Thursday night, unfurling a large Palestinian flag in front of a crowd of hundreds of supporters of Israel who were enjoying a pro-Israel hip-hop concert. The event was sponsored by the Zionist Freedom Alliance student group....

N.C. State student leaders lobby for hate crime act RALEIGH, N.C. — There was a call for change Wednesday evening night at North Carolina State University. Student leaders came together to talk about passing the "Free Expression Tunnel Hate Crime Act" after classmates admitted to painting racist remarks about President-elect Barack Obama on the night of Nov. 4. Two of the messages in N.C. State's "Free Expression Tunnel" said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head" and "Hang Obama by a noose."

Some of Humboldt State University's student Republicans feel like minorities on campus, and are asking the university to change its nondiscrimination policy to include ideological views. ”The point is that everyone should be getting a chance to be heard,” said Jerilyn Gashi, president of the HSU College Conservatives, formerly the College Republicans. “Too often, the definition of diversity ends at a certain list. It should be extended to everyone, Republicans included.” The club is asking HSU to amend the university's nondiscrimination policy to include a clause prohibiting discrimination on the basis of ideological view or affiliation with major political parties....

Ohio State and the Muslim Brotherhood FrontPage magazine.com, CA - Oct. 14, 2008 But as predictably as falling leaves turn the green grass of the Oval brown, Islamofascism flowers into full bloom on the Ohio State campus just in time for the third Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

MSA's slogan 'FASCISM, NOT TRUTH!' MSA = HATREDA. Writes: I was first introduced to MSA ‘Muslim Student Association’ by an apparent advocate for them, an Arab poster (posing as “Italian”) on AOL message boards [under multiple screen names 'sock-puppets' including "LetsReadAll", "CryToHvn" and more] on 2001 who claimed to be a 'Holocaust denier' but liked to brag about Nazis killing Jews, liked to post against certain AOL users that were openly Jewish a thread like: "paging Dr. Mengele", ) that posted again & again a video propaganda “little ones”, a collection of graphic content like bloody pictures of dead kids, on Arab “Palestinians”...

WASHINGTON -- Students for Concealed Carry on Campus held its first national meeting last friday. The group hopes to convince state legislatures to allow guns onto college campuses. Meanwhile, another group, Students for Gun Free Schools, founded in opposition to SCCC, is working to make sure this doesn't happen. Elilta Habtu joined Students for Gun Free Schools this spring. She was shot twice in the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech. The shooting has led her to become an activist for gun control. "The answer is not to arm yourself," she said. "It's better to prevent tragedies like that from occuring......

By Jerome Burdi and Scott Travis | Sun-Sentinel.com 9:40 AM EDT, April 30, 2008 BOCA RATON - The main campus of Florida Atlantic University was placed on lockdown early today and classes were canceled after someone fired shots during a fight at an on-campus student party. One person, who was not a student, was slightly injured, but police did not know if it was from a bullet or the fight.

The owner of the Green Bay-based web site that sold guns a gun to the Virginia Tech shooter and gun accessories to the Northern Illinois University gunman plans to visit Virginia Tech on Thursday. Eric Thompson owns TGSCOM, the company that sold a gun to Seung-Hui Cho last year. Cho killed 32 students and staff at Virginia Tech's campus. Thompson announced Wednesday students invited him to campus to talk about concealed-carry laws. "What I'm really hoping to do is just lend a voice. Unfortunately, a set of coincidences and circumstances, I've been in the media, and I think with that...

Please freep the poll that you find at the url listed. They are not getting much attention, and it is two to one against concealed carry.

Campus Populist by: Bethany Stotts, April 11, 2008 Campus Progress (CP), a program of the Center for American Progress, argues that “30 years of heavily-funded conservative organizing has made its mark” on universities and it’s time to push back. To that end, CP recently promoted a new book highlighting the successes of countercultural “uncorporations” and political activists. “I come to you as a Democrat, by the way, but I get very disgusted with my party leaders sometimes. You know, like gratifying Bush’s illegal domestic spying program by making it legal. I got an email from a guy saying he hoped...

Updated: April 8, 2008 05:26 PM EDT ALFRED, N.Y. (WIVB) - - Alfred University has cancelled all classes and closed the library per police request. ALFRED, N.Y. (WIVB) - - Police are on campus at Alfred University, investigating a report of a Hispanic male, possibly carrying a gun. He is described as wearing a green hoodie sweatshirt and carrying a back pack. Faculty and students are being advised to remain inside where they are, not to go outside. Update: The following email has been sent out to the campus: Alfred State College has been advised that the description of the...

College students want credit card companies to market themselves more fairly, according to a nationwide survey taken by a credit card watchdog group. 1500 students from 40 different colleges were polled and 80% of the students felt they were lured into bad credit card deals and have been racking up big bills before they graduate. Second year student Carol Castillo feels the credit card companies tricked her and that hidden interest rates and other fees not made clear by credit card companies put her in a bind. "Well, now I am in trouble and now I owe over $3000 in...

Oh, to be a campus activist now that spring is here. “Campus activist” is what the Boston Globe-Democrat calls the students pushing for coed dorm rooms at colleges across the country. Not just coed dorms, floors or even suites. One room, two beds, a boy and a girl. As Dr. Frankenstein said just before he threw the switch, “What could possibly go wrong?” More than 30 colleges and universities, including Dartmouth, Clark, Brown, and Brandeis have coed dorm room policies. This is part of the academic Left’s commitment to social justice, the battle against heteronormative bias, and a way for...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2008 – After completing four semesters at the University of Alabama, 19-year-old Daniel K. Winnie felt his life lacked discipline and direction. Marine Chief Warrant Officer Daniel K. Winnie is telling his story to audiences around the country as part of the Defense Department's "Why We Serve" public-outreach public-outreach program. Defense Department photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “I was sitting around enjoying college life, which was good, but I wasn’t doing much of anything else,” he recalled. At that point, about halfway through his college career, Winnie made a bold decision. “I thought the...

BECK: OK. There is one problem that I have with gun-free zones. And that`s that bad guys shoot people in gun-free zones. They don`t seem to care about the little sign. Too often no guns results in dead kids. Finally, one lawmaker has had enough, Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson. She`s sponsoring a bill that would allow people -- think how crazy this is -- 21 years and older, that have a concealed weapons permit to carry their firearms at public colleges and universities. Amen. Oh, no, did I just say that? Oh, no. It might save lives, because that`s...

Yes 226 (41.4%) No 320 (58.6%)

2008-02-15 L.A.'s defenders of Israel The L.A. battle for Israel's survival There is great racism against Jewish students on college campuses 2008-02-15 L.A.'s defenders of Israel The L.A. battle for Israel's survival By Brad A. Greenberg, Senior Writer A protester from the international pro-Israel group StandWithUs yells outside the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles during the conflict with Hezbollah in July 2006. Photo by Ringo Chiu/Zuma Press The notice shocked Karen Klein, head of Students for Israel at Cal State Northridge: Norman Finkelstein, the much-maligned scholar who wrote "The Holocaust Industry" and has spoken glowingly of Hezbollah, had been invited...