A U.S. judge delivered a speech at a university on March 24, a few weeks after students and a top staffer prevented him from doing so at Stanford University. U.S. District Judge Kyle Duncan, a Trump appointee, told listeners at the University of Notre Dame that there’s a “vital tradition of free speech in this country” and…
Judge Kyle Duncan Gives Free Speech at Notre Dame After Being Shouted Down at Stanford
March 25, 2023
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Judge Kyle Duncan Gives Free Speech Lecture at Notre Dame After Being Shouted Down at Stanford
March 25, 2023
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A U.S. judge delivered a speech at a university on March 24, a few weeks after students and a top staffer prevented him from doing so at Stanford University. U.S. District Judge Kyle Duncan, a Trump appointee, told listeners at the University of Notre Dame that there’s a “vital tradition of free speech in this country” and…
Stanford Employee Charged With Lying About Rape to Get Revenge on Coworker
March 16, 2023
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A 25-year-old Stanford employee faces two felony counts of perjury and two misdemeanor counts for intentionally lying about being raped twice on the California university’s campus last year, according to a press release from the local District Attorney’s office. On Aug. 9, 2022, Jennifer Gries, a Neighborhood Housing Service Center Supervisor at Stanford, told county…
Stanford Professors Push Back on University-Encouraged Student Informant Culture
A group of Stanford professors is calling for an end to a system on campus that allows students to anonymously report on each other for what they perceive to be biased or discriminatory conduct. At least 77 professors recently sent a petition to Stanford administrators, arguing that the university’s online reporting system, called Protected Identity…
Book Review: ‘Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success’
February 17, 2023
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Every year, 40 percent of students drop out of college. Of course, the reasons behind this vary from family emergencies, financial constraints, and even the decision that college is not the best route to success. Another reason, though, is that students are often woefully unprepared for the rigors of higher education. Louis E. Newman, the…
Stanford University Welcomes the Use of ‘American’ After Uproar Over ‘Harmful Language’ Guide
Standford University seems to have backpedaled on its controversial “harmful language” guide, acknowledging that it was wrong to have included the word “American.” The language guide, published in mid-December, is a Standford project officially known as the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI). The guide places certain phrases and words into 10 “harmful language sections,…
Stanford Updates Guide To Canceling ‘Harmful Language’ Including Words Like ‘Man’ And ‘American’
December 20, 2022
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Stanford University administrators published a guide to “harmful language” that calls for the elimination of words including “man” and “American.” The university created an index of forbidden words that it plans on eliminating from its websites and computer code, with a list of alternative terms to replace them with. Stanford published in May what it calls…
Stanford Study: Pandemic Stress Prematurely Aged Adolescent Brains
A recently published Stanford University study found that stress from the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted normal development in adolescents, leading to poor mental health and premature brain aging. By comparing pre-pandemic MRI scans of adolescent brains with scans from a different group of adolescents after the pandemic shutdowns, researchers found changes in brain structure that occur…
Historian Victor Davis Hanson on the Farmer’s Virtues
It’s nearly a 200-mile commute home for historian Victor Davis Hanson from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he travels once a week, to his quiet family farm in the fertile Central Valley of California. As a classicist, he’s at ease with the ancient world but often brings a historian’s insightful perspective to current…
Famous Scholars Call for End to Academic Censorship
November 8, 2022
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Palo Alto, California, known as the “birthplace of Silicon Valley,” hosted on Nov. 4 to 5 a conference in favor of free speech. This comes in response to what some prominent professors are calling a “loss of academic freedom” that is underway at many Western universities. A Canadian professor, Patrick Provost, was suspended in June for…
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