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Faculty said they felt trapped in an ‘alternate reality’ when trying to navigate the college’s ‘toxic’ DEI environment.. College students attending universities with restrictive speech codes are used to walking on eggshells and keeping their heads down on campus out of fear of committing social suicide or experiencing violence. In the disordered world of contemporary higher education, Jewish students receive limited, if any, support from school administrators amid explicit calls for violence against them, while other students face punishment for banal infractions like rolling a “free speech ball” around campus. But if you are shocked at how students are subject...

Despite the recent US Supreme Court ruling that he lacks the authority to unilaterally forgive these debts, President Biden has gone ahead and authorized the Department of Education to forgive the remaining debts of 800,000 borrowers who have been making payments for the past 20 years. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona boasted that "the genius of this approach is that it totally bypasses the congressional appropriations roadblock. We simply stop collecting payments from this select category of debtors on the grounds that they have already suffered enough." Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo) called the move "an unlawful plan that will require...

A Funny Book about Worthless Degrees By Charlotte Allen ...Since none of these degrees help increase your employability, you might as well avoid these majors and do it on your own." The above is an excerpt from one of the funnier paragraphs in "Worthless: The Young Person's Indispensable Guide to Choosing the Right Major" (Paric Publications), Aaron Clarey's hilarious primer for college students who would like to work as something other than nannies and theater interns after graduation. Worthless degree.pngClarey, a fairly recent economics major (apparently) at the University of Minnesota, can seem at times humanities-challenged (you don't "read" Socrates...