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To say that modern conservatism has failed egregiously in our school systems would be a monumental understatement. As a survivor of the Nebraska Public K-12 education system, I witnessed firsthand how deep and depraved the left was willing to be to win the war for the most vulnerable minds imaginable: children and young adults. In 2017, my high school paper asked me to write a piece regarding race relations. As a seventeen-year-old, I recognized what we now know to be the Marxist group, Black Lives Matter, were a violent and hostile group of radicals who sought to tear at the...

The big idea When Black diners get poorer service from wait staff and bartenders than white customers, it’s more likely because of racial bias than the well-documented fact that they tip less, according to a new survey I recently published. To reach that conclusion, my colleague Gerald Nowak and I recruited over 700 mostly white full-service restaurant servers and bartenders to review a hypothetical dining scenario that randomly involved either white or Black customers. We then asked them to predict the tip that the table would leave, the likelihood that the table would exhibit undesirable dining behaviors and the quality...

A federal court ruled on Monday to protect a Christian student organization that had its official student club status revoked by a Michigan university for requiring its leaders to adhere to its statement of faith. University officials will be held liable for discriminating against the club. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a student ministry that provides community, Bible studies and important discussions on campus, has been a part of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan for over 75 years. Though the club is open to all students, the university deemed InterVarsity’s leadership policies “discriminatory” for requiring that the group’s leaders agree with...

Do Muslims and Jews have a “shared future” in the U.S. based on a shared past? For the past four years, two Wayne State University academics, Howard Lupovitch and Saeed Khan, have held an annual lecture series entitled “A Shared Future.” Lupovitch, who is Jewish, is associate professor of history and director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic studies; Khan, a Muslim, is a lecturer in several departments, including Near Eastern and Asian studies. The first of the three lectures in the series was recently held at the Muslim Unity Center in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Of the hundred or so...

A faculty committee has proposed adding a three credit hours requirement in diversity to the general education curriculum at Wayne State University. It also recommended that WSU drop its university-wide requirement in mathematics, an idea that was carried out on June 13. “We are proposing the creation of specific ‘Diversity’ courses, with students required to take one course in this designation,” said a document from the General Education Reform Committee, which is recalibrating what the university will expect from all students who earn a degree from the state university. It released the proposal in May.

A faculty committee has proposed adding a three credit hours requirement in diversity to the general education curriculum at Wayne State University. It also recommended that WSU drop its university-wide requirement in mathematics, an idea that was carried out on June 13.

Public College Drops Math Requirement, May Replace It With Diversity Photo of Blake Neff BLAKE NEFF Reporter 10:21 PM 06/14/2016 924 924 Share Math [ImageFlow/Shutterstock] Math [ImageFlow/Shutterstock] A public university in Michigan has announced it’s deleting a requirement that all students complete at least one math course before graduating. At the same time, the school is seriously considering a new requirement that would compel students to complete four courses that promote diversity. Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit is one of the largest schools in Michigan, with some 27,000 students. Until now, all of them had to either take one...

Helen Thomas, JFK went on date By: Andrew Glass October 5, 2013 03:47 PM EDT Helen Thomas covered 10 presidents, from Eisenhower through Obama, in her time as a White House correspondent. She also went on a date with one of them, it emerged during a memorial service attended by about 500 people Saturday at the National Press Club for Thomas, who died on July 20 at age 92. As told by Suzanne Geha, Thomas’s niece, who presided, Thomas arrived in Washington in 1942, at age 22, shortly after graduating from Detroit’s Wayne State University. United Press (later UPI) hired...

Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour says it’s the union’s way or it’s the highway. When asked Tuesday if he thought an unprecedented eight-year union contract that was written to circumvent the state’s right-to-work law would make it difficult to recruit faculty, he said those who didn’t like it had an option: “They can always quit.” The arrogance of that statement is astounding. The retiring president of the state’s third-largest university told faculty members who may not agree with the union’s policies or its politics that it will be almost a decade before they can exercise their rights granted by...

DETROIT — A team of Wayne State University researchers was awarded $330,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a 3-D neural probe. Their aim is to develop an implantable device that will suppress tinnitus, a neurological disorder that affects more than 250 million people worldwide. With the ever-expanding knowledge in the fields of neuroscience and neurosurgery, there is an increasing need for devices and tools that enable neuroscientists to delve deeper into the physiological and pathological function of neural tissue at the level of groups of neurons. A variety of neural probes developed have significantly contributed to important...

Local probe may have federal link By Brad Bauer, bbauer@mariettatimes.com Airport security information and airline manifests were among the items seized from two Michigan men arrested Tuesday in Marietta, now being held on felony terrorism charges. Federal authorities were working Wednesday evening to determine the significance of the documents. “We also found instructions detailing how to access certain airline databases,” said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks. “We passed all that information along to the FBI, and they’re reviewing it as we speak.” Although the findings have caused authorities some concern, the documents do not relate to terrorism charges filed Wednesday...

Liberal attitudes unite Jayson Blair, NYT Eric CzarnikSouth End Columnist    What is black and white and "read" all over?    The punch line to this old riddle is, of course, a newspaper. But for the New York Times, the last few weeks have made it's staff and editors "read" with shame.    Formerly one of the world's most respected newspapers, the Times has been under siege since it was discovered that a certain young, black reporter named Jayson Blair repeatedly lied, fabricated descriptions and made errors in his stories.    Blair, who was assigned top stories like the Beltway...

December 11, 2002–- Michigan kicked off its long awaited NextEnergy Center yesterday at Wayne State University's Technology Park in Detroit. Groundbreaking ceremonies herald NextEnergy as Michigan's centerpiece for high-tech development and alternative energy research, education, development and manufacturing.Governor John Engler, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Wayne State University President, Dr. Irvin Reid and George W. Jackson, President of the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation were present for the ceremonies.The new project, which includes a 40,000 square-foot facility, will incorporate the latest technology in the building's electrical and heating and cooling systems. The facility's power grid will include the use of fuel cells, advanced...