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VIDEOThe same Berkeley Law Dean, Erwin Chereminsky, who explained how to CIRCUMVENT the Supreme Court ruling on Affirmative Action claims that conservatives are NOT suppressed on college campuses around the country despite violence erupting against conservatives at his own UC Berkeley campus. Here you see him making his divorced-from-reality declaration in December 2018.

Deborah Lambert, While the perception of conservative students is that they are constantly being shouted down and/or silenced on their left-leaning campuses, that is apparently not always the case, according to Inside Higher Education. Researchers Amy Binder, an associate professor of sociology at the U. of California, San Diego, and Kate Wood, a graduate student there, did some in-depth research by interviewing conservative students at two top schools identified only as “Eastern Elite” and Western Public.” While both schools are regarded as left-leaning by conservatives, the students at “Eastern Elite” viewed their “extreme minority” status as an opportunity to defend...

DURING THE 1980s, Ronald Reagan ushered in a new era of American conservatism that few can forget. But I don't remember one thing about it. Honestly, the first president who actually meant anything to me, besides being a fact in a book, was Bill Clinton. Like most of today's college students who were born during the Reagan administration, I grew up with the liberalism of the 1990s. So it only makes sense that those liberal values and ideas are considered ''normal" for most of my generation. Indeed, there was a time when any twentysomething outside the realm of the left...

QUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | MEETUP | C-LOG | ISSUES townhall.comPrinter-friendly versionReligious discrimination at the University of GeorgiaMike S. Adams (back to web version) | Send November 9, 2004Author’s note: The president of the University of Georgia is also named Mike Adams. We are not related.Dear President Adams (phone # 706.542.1214):I was recently informed about a possible case of religious discrimination against a (now former) cheerleading coach at the University of Georgia (UGA). Before I ask you a few questions about that case, I have several preliminary questions regarding the gay “safe zone” at UGA. My...

Two arrested for hurling pies at columnist 10/22/2004, 6:04 a.m. ET The Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Two men ran onstage and threw custard pies at conservative columnist Ann Coulter as she was giving a speech at the University of Arizona, hitting her in the shoulder, police said. University police arrested the men but did not release their identities. In her half-hour speech Thursday night, Coulter trashed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and derided liberals and Democrats while saluting conservative students who attended her speech. Coulter writes a column for Universal Press Syndicate. Her appearance was sponsored by the...

You probably know her. She’s only in her forties, but she’s already on her fourth marriage. Her kids are grown so she decides to get a job at the local university. Now she has secure employment, even if her salary and benefits are not up to par. But, most of all, she likes what she hears from day one; namely, that her employer will assiduously defend the rights of blacks, women, and gays never to be offended in the workplace. She is protected by the campus speech code. At first it starts with the occasional offhand remark. She jokes with...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., August 25, 2004 A federal lawsuit was filed today against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) by Alpha Iota Omega (AIO), a Christian fraternity that was denied recognition by UNC because it would not agree to open its membership to students of different faiths. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which is fighting on behalf of AIO in its conflict with UNC administrators, is now joined by the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), which brought the suit against the university. "For too long, UNC has denied religious groups the basic rights that all...

When I recently learned that UNC officials had ordered the funds of a Christian fraternity frozen just because they refused to admit non-Christians, I was shocked.  When I found out later that the funds never even belonged to the state I was outraged. The idea that the state of North Carolina could freeze the privately raised funds of a Christian fraternity made me wonder whether UNC equated Christian student groups with terrorist networks like al-Qaeda.After I made that very suggestion to my friend Jon Sanders at the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy in Raleigh, he showed me that I...

Christian Frat Rejected by UNCA Christian student group that refused to sign a non discrimination policy has been denied official recognition by the University of North Carolina.Alpha Iota Omega would not follow university policy requiring membership to be open to all, because it wanted only those with similar beliefs to join in.Without official recognition, the frat cannot recieve student fee money.

I run a college conservative paper and I want to sponsor a Conservative Week on my campus in the fall, culminating in a War on Terror prayer/remembrance ceremony. Here is a rough outline: Monday -- Diversity of Ideas Tuesday -- Capitalism/Anti-communism Wednesday -- Faith and Family Thursday -- Conservative Coming Out Friday -- American Spirit PLEASE help me with ideas for events, activism, poster slogans (I like "Chivalry is sexy" and "I'm conservative, and no, it's not just a stage"), etc. Some thoughts included a Reagan movie night, a debate between black conservatives and the head of the liberal black...

(AgapePress) - Conservatism, once believed to be quashed in the land of academia, has been steadily making a comeback on college campuses across the United States. But not without a fight. The most recent evidence is a poll conducted by the Education Research Institute showing that among college freshmen, 21 percent refer to themselves as conservative, while 24 percent hold liberal views. The vast majority of students prefer to sit in the middle of the political road. While the number of liberal students is still greater than conservatives, consider this: According to the poll, the percentage of students holding strict...

<p>That's T.J. Rodgers, founder of Cypress Semiconductor. As CEO of a Silicon Valley enterprise, Mr. Rodgers has spent his career thinking about how to attract the best people of whatever background and get them to be their best. Now he is hoping to bring that expertise to a place he believes is sorely in need of a lesson: academe.</p>

Well, it starts like this: Noon, lunch time, hungry, need to go have some food. I was in line waiting for my turn to order my sandwich, when I see a lady with a REALLY deep voice preparing subs at the counter. Then, I looked at her factions, and realized, this is no womas, this is a transgender!!! When he/she asked me what I wanted on my sub, and confirmed my ingredients, I instinctively answered "yes, sir". Fortunately, I did it in such a low voice that i didn't "offend" him/her. Isn't this PC'ness gone wild or what??? Now, even...

<p>The anonymous posters began to speckle the campus of St. Lawrence University in upstate New York last month. They carried an eye-grabbing message--"Republicans: The Other White Meat."</p> <p>Elizabeth Wardell, a senior, thought she knew who was responsible for their appearance: a certain assistant professor with the reputation of a provocateur. Surfing around her school's Web site, she landed on the sociology department's homepage and read a paragraph about Robert J. Torres. Then she clicked on his name and was transported to his personal blog. There, Ms. Wardell--who is president of the local College Republicans--discovered an entry headlined "Fascist, Racist College Republicans."</p>

The phrase “student activists” usually conjures up images of sign-waving protestors railing against various evils of the establishment. Indeed, for decades after the modern student movement began at the University of California-Berkeley in the 1960s, such protestors were traditionally liberal —and reflexively so, given that administrations were comparatively conservative. But now that today’s educational establishment is populated with yesterday’s student radicals, conservatives find themselves in the odd position of being the protestors. But rather than rely on disruptive tactics, modern conservatives are improving on plays from the liberal handbook: They’re making their points with wit and humor, not catcalling and...

This article by David Horowitz and the two following (Sarah Habel's "Students for Academic Freedom: A New Campus Movement" and Stanley Fish's "Voice of the Opposition") all appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. They represent the ongoing debate over Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights and fight for intellectual freedom in our institutions of higher learning - The Editors. *I am the author of the Academic Bill of Rights, which many student governments, colleges and universities, education commissions, and legislatures are considering adopting. Already, the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a version as legislation, and the Senate should soon...

Campus Conservatives Demand Real DiversityBy Jane StancillNewsObserver.com | August 18, 2003 Conservative students who unleashed the protest against UNC-Chapel Hill's reading program will sit down today with Chancellor James Moeser, but they won't be debating "Nickel and Dimed." The students, who earlier this year formed a group called the Committee for a Better Carolina, have a broader agenda. They say conservative students are uncomfortable and intimidated on a campus that is overwhelmingly liberal, and they want the university to commit to big changes. First, they will ask Moeser to include political affiliation and ideology in the university's official nondiscrimination policy....

Written from a left-wing point-of-view, this cover article analyzes the conservative movement on today's college campuses, specifically Bucknell.

<p>''Conservatives are a distinct minority here at Tufts, and consequently, the concerns of our community are not adquately represented,'' he wrote in The Tufts Daily. ''Conservative students have been harassed and physically assaulted, their media stolen and vandalized. Hate messages have been scrawled on bathroom walls and dorm whiteboards, and individuals have been verbally berated and ridiculed.... Has the Senate passed a resolution asking for dialogue with conservatives? No. Has the Bias Response Team [considered] these problems with the same seriousness they show other minorities? No.''</p>