Posts tagged as Shut Up College
"Human Sexuality," The "Best Course" at Northwestern, is Canceled
"Prof. John Michael Bailey's popular Human Sexuality course, which came under national scrutiny following a controversial after-class, optional sex toy demonstration in February, will not be offered next academic year." READ MORE
Turns Out All American Colleges Are Actually Giant Daycare Centers (Duh)
In another "shocking news to no one" research project, The Delta Cost Project discovered definitive proof of what everyone in world has been thinking since the 1950's. The report, "Trends in College Spending 1998-2008 [PDF]," concluded that colleges and universities from all over the country are literally throwing money at high end student centers and methods of increasing "comfortability" for students (and we mean literally, like administrators are actually having huge money fights). The story has been picked up by news-soup extraordinaire The Huffington Post who linked it to a New York Times article trying to explain the, ya' know, frivolousness of American higher education. READ MORE
"Hawaii Speedo Student" Sought By School Security, Porn Companies
"Since at least January, Tim, a gay 22-year-old senior at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, has been recording himself masturbating, and uploading the videos to Xtube.... Among those photos is a series of him in University of Hawaii classrooms, snapped in January-February.... the University's Twitter account posted this campus warning: 'if you see 'Hawaii Speedo Student' on campus, do not approach him–call Campus Security.' Now, he's an outlaw. Or at least a wild mountain lion roaming campus looking for prey."
Holocaust Deniers and White Supremacists Make Oregon Students "Feel" "Unsafe"
The University of Oregon is considering not allowing the Pacifica Forum to meet in the student union. That group, to be fair, hosts all manner of speakers, not just "legitimate historians" who don't believe the Holocaust happened. And then there's this. READ MORE
