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The average college student has average intelligence, concludes a meta-analysis by Canadian researchers, writes Ross Pomeroy on Big Think. In 1939, when only 10 percent of Americans enrolled in college, the average IQ was 119. By 2022, it's down to 102, not significantly above the average of 100. “The decline in students’ IQ is a necessary consequence of increasing educational attainment over the last 80 years,” the researchers wrote. “Today, graduating from university is more common than completing high school in the 1940s.” The “Flynn effect” -- a steady rise in IQs from 1940 onward -- has been well established,...

Muslim from his hometown suspected. NAIROBI, Kenya – A Christian college student was killed in northern Uganda on April 14 for sharing about Christ with Muslims, a fellow student said. Jeremiah Mwanga, a second-year student at the Uganda Christian School of Professionals in Lira, Northern Region, was killed in his room at the school in Gwangabara cell, Boroboro ward, East Division in Lira. He was 24. Mwanga was a native of Kapchorwa District, in eastern Uganda, where the Muslim student at the school charged with killing him also lived. “Jeremiah complained about messages from one of the students threatening to...

A 20-year-old college student from South Dakota fell to her death off Hawksbill Crag, a popular tourist spot in Arkansas, while posing for a photo. Andrea Norton, of Hot Springs, S.D., was visiting the area on a school-related trip, Newton County Sheriff Glenn Wheeler told the Springfield News-Leader on Saturday. “She was here with a group from her college, and the professor that led the group has been coming here for more than 20 years and bringing groups here,” Wheeler told NBC affiliate KY3. Norton was hiking with classmates from Sioux City, Iowa, when she slipped and fell off the...

When a young Birmingham college student's car broke down the night before he was supposed to start a new job, he didn't panic. At least not for long. Instead, Walter Carr walked. From Homewood to Pelham. All night. In the dark. 20 miles or more. A Carver High School graduate and U.S. Marine hopeful, Carr walked throughout the early morning hours Friday because he needed, and wanted, the job with Bellhops moving company. He made it to Hoover by 2 a.m. and then to Pelham at 4 a.m. It was in Pelham that the trek took a surprising turn. Kindness...

A college student said she flushed her emotional support hamster down the toilet after Spirit Airlines refused to let her bring her furry pet on the plane. Belen Aldecosea, 21, of Miami Beach, Florida, told the Miami Herald that she contacted Spirit Airlines before her flight from Baltimore to South Florida on Nov. 21, 2017, regarding traveling with her dwarf hamster, Pebbles. Aldecosea claimed the airline told her it was not a problem to bring her hamster on the flight.

Make it stop. What happens when a pie-in-the-sky liberal, prattling on about social justice and all that sort of thing, actually gets challenged by someone who knows what he’s talking about and knows how to ask the right questions in the right way? This. You can’t help but feel badly for Keely Mullen. I know, she’s asking for it by advocating such insanity and you’ve got to be ready to rumble when you go into the public square. But it’s hard to watch anyone get humiliated this badly and not want to just tell the referee to stop the fight....

The Columbia University student who carried her mattress around campus to protest how the school dealt her alleged rapist has created a video of herself having violent sex for her latest art piece. Emma Sulkowicz's new work, 'Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol' or 'This is not a rape', shows the 22-year-old engaging in consensual sexual contact with an unidentified man before it takes a dark twist. In the footage, she cries in pain and protest in a dorm room as she is slapped, choked and forced into rough sex, the New York Daily News reported. The video was posted on...

This video is making the rounds or has in other words, gone viral all over the internet, plus it was the talk on a number of talk radio shows. This video shows USA House of Representative Bob Etheridge, D/NC, cuffing around the neck, a young man who was simply polite and was asking a simple question of Rep. Etheridge. Rep. Etheridge FORGETS that he and all the USA HOUSE AND SENATE WORK FOR US, WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

Police said Sunday a positive DNA link has been established between the Jan. 20 abduction of a college student from a Reno home and a December sexual assault of another student who lived a few blocks away. At a late afternoon news conference, Reno police commander Ron Holladay said investigators think the same unidentified white male in his 30s is responsible for the earlier assault and last week's kidnapping of Brianna Denison, 19, from a friend's house near the University of Nevada, Reno campus. "Our chances of capturing the suspect are exponentially increased now because of the DNA," Holladay said....

I would just like to further introduce my blog to the scene. I welcome any advice or criticism, and thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I am a student at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. I am attracted to blogging about social conservative issues relating to DC and the Catholic Church, but I also write about St. Louis and Missouri politics when I'm feeling homesick--and anything else I think is worth my time and yours. Let me know what you think. Welcome to PP&P!

As anyone who knows me can verify I've often railed about people who refer to our government as a Democracy when it is a Republic. It seems that there is a movement, with all of the "each vote counts" hullabaloo and the calls for the removal of the Electoral College, to bring about actual Democracy in America, yet that too won't make a difference. Because, and I hate to burst the bubble of those desiring a Democracy, and it doesn't matter what form of government is in place, we all face a more deadly peril that needs to be taken...

Last modified Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:49 PM PDT Brook Wilberger The search intensifies By JESSE SOWA Gazette-Times reporter Police believe Wilberger abducted Shoes and personal items were left behind Monday morning outside a Corvallis apartment complex, but there was no other sign of Brooke Carol Wilberger. She was gone without a trace. On Tuesday, police continued interviewing people and searching the Corvallis area for the 19-year-old Veneta woman, whom police believe was abducted. Wilberger was last seen about 10 a.m. Monday at the Oak Park Apartments, 1219 S.W. 26th St., where her sister and brother-in-law, Stephanie and Zak Hansen,...

<p>But the details undermine any grounds for optimism.</p> <p>Specifically, 73 percent respond that the view of ethics most often transmitted was the politically correct "what is right and wrong depends on differences in individual values and cultural diversity," compared to a mere 25 percent who indicate "the copybook choice" that "there are clear and uniform standards of right and wrong by which everyone should be judged."</p>

<p>AMARILLO, Texas (AP) --  The FBI said Tuesday it was searching for a 21-year-old college student in connection with a wave of pipe bombs found in rural mailboxes.</p> <p>Luke John Helder was seen driving a black or gray Honda Accord with Minnesota license plates, investigators said. Helder turned 21 on Sunday, according to a check of public records.</p>