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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Who Is Richard Kramer? Director of ‘Mental Health Professionals’ Group Admits His Own Attraction to Minors

Controversy has erupted over a Baltimore conference this week organized by B4UAct.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization described by the Daily Caller as “a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists.” The Aug. 17 conference was aimed at de-stigmatizing pedophila and especially at removing pedophilia from the list of mental disorders in the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual. There […]

‘Awfully Nice For The Professors Who Don’t Have To Grade’

by Smitty Althouse points to Western Governor’s University, where there is a notion of hiring adjuncts to do the grading. Should we feel for the adjuncts who have a job consisting of the part of the job that the regular professors are freed from? The photo at the link depicts “Emily Child, an evaluator at […]

Your Tax Dollars at Work

The Department of Education has enlisted Sponge Bob Squarepants and Dora the Explorer to brainwash kids about global warming. Soylent Green is experiencing Government-Induced Tourette’s Syndrome.

Higher Education Bubble, IYKWIMAITYD

If Glenn Reynolds hasn’t linked this yet, it’s only a matter of time: As the cost of college skyrockets, and students and recent graduates get buried under “piles of student debt and a job-scarce, lackluster economy,” more and more of them are turning to “sugar daddies,” says Amanda Fairbanks at The Huffington Post. Sites like […]

My Son-in-Law’s Law School in the News

Readers will recall Martin — a/k/a, the Argentine Romeo — who married my daughter last year. He will attend University of Baltimore Law School this fall and, via Instapundit, we have the news that the UBLS dean just resigned: University of Baltimore School of Law Dean Phillip J. Closius resigned today as a result of […]

Civil Rights and ‘Elevator Eyes’

“Elevator Eyes: When someone looks another person up and down, giving their eyes the resemblance of elevators.” — Urban Dictionary Michael Barone explains that the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights sent a 19-page letter to colleges and universities in April: The OCR letter includes a requirement that universities adopt a “preponderance of the […]

Why Is David Epstein Still a Columbia University Professor After Incest Plea?

Jackie Carrero and Mikey Zhong of the Columbia Spectator note that David Epstein is still employed as a political science professor at Columbia University, even after he copped a guilty plea (to the misdemeanor of “attempted incest”) in connection with a case that made headlines in December. Epstein, who had used his blog at Huffington Post to attack […]

Another Reminder That the Academic Elite Are Your Moral Superiors

Michael Schultz is associate vice president for development and alumni affairs at the University of Vermont, and wrote his 2009 Ph.D. thesis on a very interesting subject: “Elucidating the Role of the Presidential Spouse in Development and Alumni Relations.” The role of the university president’s spouse in alumni relations is a subject Schultz knows intimately, […]

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