The Deion Sanders-led Colorado Buffaloes took the college football world by storm last season. The Buffaloes had a disappointing finish to the season but have added several notable players to the roster over the past few months and will enter the 2024 campaign with high expectations. While Sanders is working to make sure the team is fully prepared for the …
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UCLA medical school's 'structural racism' class featured 'quite disturbing' prayer to pagan god: Witness
A mandatory “structural racism” class at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA led a prayer to Mother Earth, which disturbed some who attended the lecture. The UCLA Jewish Faculty Resilience Group spoke to numerous witnesses from the lecture and penned a letter to the administration Friday, calling for an “urgent and thorough external review” of its curriculum to …
Read More »UW regents approve in-state tuition hike of nearly 4%
In-state tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other campuses in the system will increase 3.75% next school year under a plan approved unanimously by the Board of Regents on Thursday. Combined with an increase in fees, the total tuition and fee increase will be 4.4% on average, the university said. The tuition increase alone equates to a $262 spike …
Read More »Jewish NYU student speaks out after being reinstated to campus role: ‘Antisemitism is a communicable disease’
A Jewish NYU graduate student is telling his side of the story after being reinstated to his school leadership position following a vote to remove him over a resolution that condemned Hamas terrorism. “Antisemitism is a communicable disease that people spread, not just on social media. You can’t quarantine it. People are spreading it in person, across races, across ideologies, …
Read More »Women's NCAA Tournament shatters viewing records even as season beset by mishaps
A huge disparity between the men’s and women’s weight rooms drew attention to the women’s NCAA Tournament for all the wrong reasons in 2022, starting a conversation about equity that has carried over into today. Then this season brought the mismatched 3-point lines in Portland, Oregon. The incorrectly drawn lines were among a series of miscues that have been a …
Read More »Bryan Kohberger lawyer alleges public bias as residents called police after being contacted in juror survey
Most people don’t like spam calls. Bryan Kohberger’s lead lawyer has accused the public of bias against her client, who is suspected of killing four University of Idaho students, after Latah County residents called police to report a defense expert had contacted them for a survey. “The afternoon filing on March 22, 2024 was done with the intention of obtaining …
Read More »Missing Texas college student Caleb Harris' family believes 'somebody knows something'
Texas college student Caleb Harris has been missing for a month since he left his off-campus, Corpus Christi apartment in the early morning hours of March 4 to pick up a food delivery order. Harris, a 21-year-old student at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi, had been in contact with friends and family over Snapchat between about 2 a.m. and 2:45 …
Read More »1 hospitalized after North Carolina college dorm shooting
One person was hospitalized after reports of a shooting at a residence hall at North Carolina Central University, police said. Police were called to Lawson Street Residence Complex at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to a news release from the university in Durham. The school was placed on lockdown, and a campus alert was issued warning those in the area of …
Read More »Texas university clears DEI offices, lays off employees in light of new state law: report
The University of Texas at Austin laid off dozens of employees who worked in their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to comply with a new state law, according to a report. University of Texas at Austin President Jay Hartzell announced Tuesday the school’s Division of Campus and Community Engagement is being dissolved and its programs and funding transferred to …
Read More »Biden could permanently bench female athletes
The Biden administration is poised to complete its radical rewrite of the U.S. Department of Education’s regulations on Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education. To label the administration’s proposed changes as highly controversial would be an understatement. One seismic change would expand Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination in education to …
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