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Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, said Tuesday a student expelled for racist social media was reinstated after an appeal revealed the woman did not post the content. "We received new information showing that the student did not post the racist content in early June," the school said in a statement. "We will ensure she transitions seamlessly back into campus life when the fall semester begins. She has our full support." The expulsion was announced by the school June 4 after the college, the first in the world chartered for women, was made aware of the postings that morning, according to Tuesday's statement...

Petition demands ‘public retraction’ of prof’s view that people have ‘right to choose’ abortion Following pressure on his Christian college from a pro-life group, a professor has apparently recanted the muddled views on abortion he articulated in a campus forum. That’s not good enough for Created Equal, which started a petition campaign against Indiana Wesleyan University demanding that the school “not tolerate pro-abortion professors.” As The College Fix previously reported, IWU professor Greg Fiebig called himself “equally pro-choice and pro-life” in the “Life vs. Choice” forum in November, which provoked Created Equal’s social-media campaign against him. Fiebig said he had...

News To Her by: Malcolm A. Kline, December 06, 2007 Reality is for people who can’t face academia. As reported by Matt Eagan in The Hartford Courant, one academic, in commenting on the vanishing breed of scribes known as newspaper film critics, showed that she herself has a hard time distinguishing between breaking stories and popular features. “It’s just part of the disappearance of news from daily newspapers,” Jeanine Bassinger of Wesleyan University says. “As newspapers are cutting back, there is a feeling that readers will get their reviews from somewhere else.” “Those of us who were used to reading...