Four Lessons for Professors from Recent Campus Tumult
…at Middlebury and Claremont McKenna did not). 4) If a mob comes for you, the great majority of its members will be non-violent. However, given the new standard operating procedure…
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Angry Students Turn on Another Progressive Prof at Evergreen
Evergreen State College Biology professor Bret Weinstein is surprised. Indignant. Alarmed. Weinstein is the new Allison Stanger—the progressive Middlebury professor still suffering a concussion from the attack by the masked…
Middlebury Student Government Says No to Free Speech
Middlebury’s response to the disruption of Charles Murray’s invited campus address—followed by the protesters assaulting and injuring Professor Alison Stanger, moderator for the talk—offered little ground for optimism. A statement…
Some New and Narrow Versions of Academic Freedom
…whether at Berkeley, Middlebury, or Claremont-McKenna. Perhaps the open letter from Pomona College students to President David Oxtoby demanding that he “take action against the Claremont Independent editorial staff for…
The Seven Deadly Sins of Higher Education
…Middlebury? Yet the presidents are not alone in consenting to the gradual deterioration of the campus learning environment. A fifth sin emanates from a faculty that too often fiddles with…
The Middlebury Punishment Is Finally Here
Those of you waiting to see the decisive smackdown of the Middlebury demonstrators who thought it was a good idea to shut down the Charles Murray talk, well, here it…
Do Free Speech Students Outnumber the Snowflakes?
As Middlebury initiated what appears to be token punishments (single-term probation) for the students who disrupted the Charles Murray talk, the college’s student government (which has yet to condemn the…
NYU Professor Sides with “Snowflakes” Against Free Speech
…sorts of nasty actions we have seen at Berkeley, Middlebury and elsewhere won’t “end free speech in America,” but what they do accomplish is to prevent particular instances of free…
Self-Censorship Is Easy to Learn, Particularly in Dormitories
…their tails between their legs. Bill: That’s absolutely right. Take the Middlebury incident where their teacher was assaulted. I haven’t been following the aftermath carefully, but I don’t think anyone…
Radicals Stop a Rose Festival
…has been going on at Berkeley, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, UCLA, Brown, Rutgers and many more campuses. The Brownshirts won’t go away on their own. They will have to be confronted….
Their Violence Is Free Speech, but Our Speech Is Violence
…intimidate attendees, block entrances, and shout down lecturers, they’re interfering with free speech rights. As a Middlebury professor and two alums said at Inside Higher Ed after the affair, “If…
Colleges Still Lack Integrity on Canceled Speeches
At Middlebury, where Charles Murray was prevented from speaking about the disintegrating white working class, college president Laurie Patton made some appropriate comments on the need for free speech. But…
Shouting Down Speakers—a Regular, Organized Campus Business
…organized, aren’t they? The night before Claremont, Mac Donald’s speech at UCLA had been disrupted, though with less physical obstruction. At Middlebury College last month, the assault on the American…
The Real Defense of Charles Murray: Truth Not Free Speech
The Middlebury College incident in which Charles Murray was forcefully prevented from speaking about Coming Apart has generated a mini-industry of brilliant responses on behalf of academic freedom. Unfortunately, at…
Crime But No Punishment at Middlebury?
…on campus, Middlebury was in an explosive state. Disdain rose to hatred. Much of that atmosphere was the work of 450 Middlebury alumni who asked that the speaker be disallowed,…
The Bubble at Middlebury
…despite their official commitment to diversity — are pretty much all part of the bubble. Related: Middlebury Will Either Defend Democratic Norms or Capitulate And Middlebury students and faculty could…
Middlebury Will Either Defend Democratic Norms or Capitulate
Below is an excerpt from an article by Rod Dreher in The American Conservative on Middlebury students shouting down and harassing visiting speaker Charles Murray: “Middlebury College is on trial…
Charles Murray on Why He Was Silenced at Middlebury
…Middlebury affair depends on what Middlebury does next. So far, Middlebury’s stance has been exemplary. The administration agreed to host the event. President Patton did not cancel it even after…
2017 US News Top Ranked Colleges
…Middlebury College (VT) (tie) Swarthmore College (PA) (tie) Bowdoin College (ME) Carleton College (MN) (tie) Pomona College (CA) (tie) Claremont McKenna College (CA) (tie) Davidson College (NC) (tie) Top Public…
Another Unbalanced View of Campus Sex Hearings
…received $5,854,732 in taxpayer funds, with the grant scheduled to continue until April 2017. The total grant thus seems to exceed $8 million. Related: Weaponizing Title IX at Middlebury And…
Accused, Expelled, and Smeared as a Rapist—at Yale
…the university relied to make its determination No right to an impartial panel (panelists receive secret “training,” which at the few universities where it has been revealed—Stanford, Ohio State, Middlebury—has…
Yale’s Imaginary Crime Wave
…outcome. Then there’s the fifth case. Last year featured a deeply troubling scenario in which a non-Middlebury student essentially weaponized Title IX. She alleged that a Middlebury student sexually assaulted…
Weaponizing Title IX at Middlebury
…problem. The second, which involved a student at Middlebury College, had Judge J. Garvan Murtha (a Clinton appointee) issuing a preliminary injunction preventing Middlebury from expelling the student. You can…
DIVESTERS: NO FREE SPEECH FOR OPPONENTS
…them into simple yeas and nays on divestment. Campaigns at Harvard, Middlebury College, Tufts University and more, asked dissenters to get ‘on the right side of history’. According to divestarians,…
Wesleyan Finishes off Its Frats
…College in Massachusetts dismantled its fraternity system in 1962. Over the decades Amherst, Colby, and Middlebury followed suit, and 2012 Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, ordered its all-male Greek houses…
Metal Fatigue and Campus Pessimism
…courses. At Middlebury it is 72 percent. But leave aside the details. The main point is that the sustainability doctrine authorizes—or perhaps more accurately demands—the subordination of all forms of…
The Remarkable Class of 2015 Must Save the Planet
…warms an environmentalist’s heart.” Poet Julia Alvarez urged Middlebury graduates to mimic an environmentalist arrested at a protest who told a reporter, “I’m here because I have a soul.” “May…
Campus Tolerance for Violence
…3,000 small American flags. The protestors said they were protesting “American imperialism.” The president of Middlebury condemned the act, and the one protester identified as a Middlebury student was suspended…
US News Rankings: Not Quite Ho-Hum
…Williams 2. Amherst 3. Swarthmore 4. Wellesley 5. Bowdoin 5. Pomona 7. Middlebury 8. Carleton 8. Claremont McKenna 8. Haverford Nothing to notice here. Princeton was #1 last year and…
Campus Activism: the Fight for Imaginary Victories
…New York activists held at New School in October. The movement’s guru, Middlebury professor Bill McKibben, attended the meeting by way of videotape and candidly explained to the students that…