Allegedly liberal students are demonstrating worryingly illiberal tendencies at colleges across the nation, insisting professors retire for holding unpopular opinions and demanding administrators condemn flyers promoting the value of freedom of speech.
Instead of wavering on the future of particle physics in the country, the United States should invest in the future of high energy physics and build its own LHC-scale particle collider.
The lack of substantive debate on this issue is severely limiting for the future of American and worldwide democracy. The inability to restrain modern governments to respect the same old freedoms of privacy through a new medium is scary because of the potential for abuse by those in power.
Our freedom as students effectively comes from the safety net that the University provides, allowing us to make mistakes and bounce back. However, many students fail to use these “safety net” services even when they would benefit from them.
While creating limited safe spaces on college campuses deserves our support, expanding the definition of a safe space to encapsulate entire campuses is a dangerous idea that would have serious implications on freedom of speech.
With student protests gripping the University of Missouri, Yale and now other schools across the country, it’s hard not to ask what lessons to draw from all the turmoil.
The reason so many conversations about the Lawn end in frustration is that it is problematic to boil applicants and residents down to one or even a few factors.
The Hyperloop’s advantages allow it to be a far more economically and energy efficient mode of transportation than the alternatives.
Catalonia keeps assuring the international community that, as a new country, it will be able to remain within the Eurozone. However, this isn’t necessarily true.
Students are constantly being cheated by this system because they are paying several dollars more per meal than they would be were the meal exchange option not in place.
The fact that other groups are not bound by similar restrictions is openly discriminatory. Fraternities cannot have kegs, liquor or any sort of mixed drink at a party and non-IFC fraternities and organizations can.
One of the main criticisms levied against MOOCs is the absence of any physical interaction between professors and students. This is a valid point. But we cannot really claim all of the large introductory courses at the University give students the opportunity to communicate well with their professors.
I would expect people to applaud a politician’s commitment to his family, but instead Ryan received vitriol from reliably left-wing sites like Jezebel, Salon and Think Progress, and even more centrist publications like Time.
The current Israeli administration — and, arguably, every administration since Yitzhak Rabin’s prematurely curtailed administration in the mid-1990s — advocates on behalf of the former, i.e., the preeminence of Israel’s Jewish character above all other things.
More important than just taking on important issues, sentencing reform is the one change that can be made relatively quickly and unilaterally.
As Americans, in order to make sense of our realities, we have been telling ourselves the narrative “if you work hard, then you will succeed.” This aphorism is dishonest because it ignores the cumulative factors that result in a person’s success.
The University has not addressed a crucial factor for sexual assault victims: their post-attack emotional and psychological conditions within the learning environment.
By their nature, institutions of higher learning are incentivized to restrict the “free speech” rights of their students over the Internet, as negative or unfavorable posts can certainly tarnish their reputations.
The University has demonstrated its leadership on an issue that is not only just a few years old but also going through the legal chaos that comes with new initiatives.
Some readers believe there’s a clear line between gossip and serious coverage; I don’t.
