Well, they were pretty easy for me, but former Georgia Bulldogs assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr. makes j-school exams look like particle physics. Here's Harrick Jr.'s Final Exam for his "Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball" course in the fall of 2001: 1. How many goals are on a basketball court? a. 1 b. 2 […]
Vanderbilt University has gotten the Jayson Blair treatment from The New York Times. Reporter Alex Abramovich, instead of reporting what actually happened and what he actually saw, instead decided to "report" on the stereotypes he holds for those racist, ignorant southerners. The whole episode sent the Vandy vice chancellor on a letter-writing mission to the […]
The Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments in the case of a Washington State student who received a merit scholarship that was rescinded after he decided to major in pastoral ministry. In the past, the court has decided that vouchers could legally be awarded to students, even if the students used those vouchers to attend […]
The numbers regarding student ignorance are scary, but the ignorance level on the part of administrators is downright frightening.
Evan Coyne Maloney has video up from the pro-Palestinian conference and rally earlier this month at Rutgers University. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. My favorite line on the video, from one of the pro-Palestinian Nazi hatemongers, referring to Maloney: Woman: What he is really doing here is intelligence gathering. Not bloody […]
I spent a couple of hours on Monday and Tuesday speaking to a couple of Laura Little's sixth graders about journalism, writing and interviewing. Of course, the kids have questions. My favorite: Kid: "Are you famous?" Me: "Before Ms. Little told you I was coming, had you heard of me?" Kid: "No." Me: "Then I'm […]
And that's a lawsuit from the Center for Individual Rights. If you're looking for some background on the issue, you can check out my blog posts here, here and here. You can also check out some work on the case done by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education here. Cal Poly will lose this […]
As has been done at numerous campuses, conservative students at Southern Methodist University had an affirmative action bake sale. Unlike other campuses, school officials shut the bake sale down because it created a "hostile environment." This just in, the real-world is a "hostile environment." The quote in ths story that really got me was one […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune has a board on the third floor newsroom where they put photos and brief bios of new employees and interns. One of the Union-Tribune's newest interns is a student at UC San Diego. This individual is majoring in "critical gender roles." No, I don't know what the heck that is, nor […]
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has posted a transcript of the kangaroo court proceedings against Cal Poly student Steve Hinkle. [Adobe Acrobat Reader required. HTML highlights here.] For those of you unfamiliar with the case, Hinkle walked into Cal Poly's multicultural center to post a flyer advertising a speech by conservative Mason […]