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The college recently recognized the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine Skidmore College’s student government refused to recognize a progressive, pro-Israel student group due to its "troublesome" perspective despite recently recognizing the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine. The Skidmore College Student Government Association denied Progressive Zionists for Peace’s request for a club trial period in a Zoom meeting on March 13. The organization’s leaders were told the group would need to "gain more diverse perspectives" before receiving official club status. Student senator Sarah Baker said a "dialogue focused" group with "one perspective" could be "troublesome." In its request for...

At Skidmore College, where there are no immediately identifiable conservatives, faculty members have started to intimidate liberals with stray thoughts. Robert Boyers, an English professor at Skidmore, recounted a couple of recent episodes in The Chronicle Review on March 24, 2017: • "At my own college, when a senior colleague at a public meeting last fall uttered an expression ('in their native habitat') felt by some to be 'offensive'--though clearly not intended to be so, and followed by a clear apology when a complaint was voiced--there were calls for her to resign from the faculty. And though she is, and...

The Bias Response Group at Skidmore College in New York says Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, which made its way onto several whiteboards on campus, was a “racialized, targeted attack” against female faculty of color. Three whiteboard messages with the phrase “Make America Great Again” were included in the BRG’s annual report and classified as “written slur[s] or graffiti,” Campus Reform reported. “Multiple faculty door whiteboards have been the target of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent social media campaign, now dubbed ‘the Chalkening.’ This campaign encourages supporters to chalk/write the slogan: “Make America Great Again” in visible places on college...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY -- A how-to guide for better masturbation that hangs in Skidmore College bathrooms is steaming up the campus in more ways than one. The Your-Body-is-a-Wonderland edition of The Racy Reader, published by the college's Center for Sex and Gender Relations, encourages masturbation as "a great way to relieve some of the stress that comes with classes, finals and the never ending homework." The poster shows a map of the body's erotic zones and offers suggestions for heightening self-pleasure. Students created 300 copies of the "restroom reader" with the help of a college administrator. Fliers were placed in...

Court documents in the case of an alleged hate crime in which a group of Skidmore College students are accused of attacking a white man dining with a black man show that the black man was an off-duty sheriff’s deputy.

CAPITAL REGION — Private liberal arts colleges, including Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs and Union College in Schenectady, are seeing a decline in admission applications and increased requests for financial aid. “It’s no surprise, looking at the economic climate,” said Robert Shorb, associate dean and director of student aid and family finance at Skidmore. Some students’ parents have lost their jobs, he said. Some families’ college investments have declined dramatically with the stock market. At the same time, the small liberal arts colleges have also lost money on their endowment investments. Skidmore’s $223 million endowment, for example, is down 23...

ASHCROFT, CRITICS FACE OFF Former U.S. attorney general peppered with questions in wide-ranging talk at Skidmore College By MARC PARRY, Staff writer SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Nobody threw eggs. The crowd didn't walk out in protest. But John Ashcroft was treated to a verbal grilling Wednesday as a guest speaker at largely liberal Skidmore College. An overflow assembly of more than 600 people questioned Ashcroft, President Bush's former attorney general, about the war in Iraq, abortion, torture, surveillance, drugs and immigration. A gay student asked him about gay marriage. "You can have a relationship, you just can't have the special status,"...

CAIR-FL: TOUR-BUS DRIVER FIRED FOR MUSLIM JOKES ( Orlando Sentinel) "And now they're telling us we're supposed to be nice to these Muslim terrorists who are trying to kill us all," Hilal Isler recalled him saying. "Here in America, we call them 'rag-heads' or 'towelheads,' but that's not right. What they wear on their heads is more like a sheet. We should be calling them sheetheads."... Sabiha Khan, executive director of the Orlando office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said she receives two to three complaints a month about discrimination against Muslims in Central Florida. Mostly the incidents go...

MARYVILLE, Mo - Hundreds of mourners gathered Tuesday in this small northwestern Missouri farming community to bury a young woman who was strangled and her baby cut from her womb. Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, of Skidmore, was found by her mother Thursday in a pool of blood in her small home, her baby missing. A woman Stinnett knew from breeding and showing rat terrier dogs made a first court appearance Monday on a charge of kidnapping resulting in death. Family and friends said the suspect, Lisa M. Montgomery, 36, of Melvern, Kan., tried to pass off the infant as her...