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Cardinal Newman Society would have protested Hillary Clinton speaking at a Catholic college on health care, welfare, even tidily-winks.  There just has to be a better choice to speak on any subject.  But the queen of abortion rights speaking on the Corporal Works of Mercy?  It's ludicrous! ============================ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2005 ============================ TOP OF THE NEWS * Hillary Clinton to Speak on Works of Mercy EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS * CNS President to Address Dallas Conference CATHOLIC CAMPUS NEWS * Villanova Honors Faculty Member Who Killed Baby * New York Medical Bans Homosexual Club * Seattle Professors Defend Abortion *...

Making its break from reality official, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) named as its new chief a college administrator who is famous for sponsoring conferences on sex at a state university. Last year, the AAUP objected when the University of South Florida dismissed a professor that the U.S. government arrested for working with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Additionally, the AAUP has consistently opposed the Academic Bill of Rights constructed by Students for Academic Freedom. “The danger of such guidelines is that they invite diversity to be measured by political standards that diverge from the academic criteria of the...

Cary, N.C.—Renegade professors and serious students hoping to buck the politically correct trend that engulfs academia and makes shared knowledge an endangered species may not find much refuge in their local community college. Dr. Michael Filozof certainly found no sanctuary at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. Married, with one daughter, the tenure-track political science professor at the school now faces imminent unemployment as a result of a scurrilous whispering campaign by two professors who found his political views (support for President Bush and for U.S. troops in Iraq) hard to take. When Dr. Filozof placed an American flag...

Millions of K-12 students throughout the United States have participated in “A Classroom of Difference,” an “anti-bias” program produced by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The curriculum is often glowingly publicized as just what schools need to “eliminate harassment, bullying, and racial tension,” as one newspaper put it. But how much do parents and taxpayers know about the content of the program that many of their schools are rushing to adopt? The program has grown dramatically since 1985, when it began in Boston as a joint endeavor between ADL and a local television station. Today, the “A Classroom of Difference” program...