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Ivy league students grow conservative network in advance of 2024 conference

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 05:02:57 +0000

Network empowers student members, organizer said Conservative students at elite universities built a collegiate network for pro-life advocacy that has expanded to examine broader Judeo-Christian themes of human flourishing. The upcoming conference of The David Network is scheduled for January 2024 in Washington, D.C., according to the organization’s website. It will coincide with the annual…

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Right-of-center professor to lead new Yale Law free speech center

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 04:02:07 +0000

UPDATED Yale Law has been ‘lacking in right-of-center public law faculty for decades,’ politics professor said A Princeton politics professor is moving to Yale Law School, where he will teach and direct a new center focused on academic freedom. Professor Keith Whittington told The College Fix via email that the new academic freedom center at Yale should open by fall 2024, and it will likely…

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Princeton professor, free speech leader hopeful about academic freedom initiative

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 04:02:24 +0000

‘I hope the new initiative will improve the campus environment,’ Princetonians for Free Speech president said. ‘But I will believe it when I see it.’ A Princeton University ethics center announced this month a new initiative dedicated to academic freedom and supported by several professors. “Academic freedom is under threat in many parts of the world,” states a Sept. 11 news release from the…

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‘Rantings of a demagogue’: Parents angered by Princeton president’s graduation address

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 04:05:45 +0000

‘President Eisgruber’s commencement speech was a disgrace,’ one mother said PRINCETON, N.J. — A large contingent of parents of graduating seniors who sat through Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber’s recent commencement address described it as hypocritical and a “woke sermon” in interviews with The College Fix. They scoffed at his claim that the Ivy League institution is a…

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New documentary exposes Ivy League privilege and the students it shuts out

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 04:04:21 +0000

Film questioned why taxpayers invest heavily in institutions that don’t return the favor “Exclusion U,” a feature documentary released this year, details how Ivy League universities accumulate billions of dollars as they restrict class sizes, turn away qualified students, and favor the children of the rich. “Ivy League endowments are worth $193 billion dollars, but they only educate 0.3…

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Majority of Princeton’s conservative seniors uncomfortable sharing political views: survey

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Tue, 02 May 2023 04:02:31 +0000

Other findings included a dramatic GPA increase from previous years A majority of self-described conservative seniors at Princeton University reported feeling uncomfortable “sharing [their] political views on campus,” according to this year’s annual survey of the graduating class. Over 64 percent of students who self-identified as “very conservative” were “very uncomfortable” or “somewhat…

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Princeton lecture highlights ‘erotic relations between Blackness, soil, and Dead (matter)’

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 05:02:58 +0000

Editor’s note: Contains graphic content Dirt eating, associated with blackness, is objectifying and possibly dangerous, but also could be spiritual, erotic, or a way to resist capitalism and slavery, scholar argues Princeton University hosted an online event with Kimberly Bain, an English professor the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, who explored the symbolism of soil…

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Princeton students petition English Dept. to denounce Palestinian speaker who called Zionists ‘neonazi pigs’

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:05:29 +0000

It ‘does not issue statements,’ English department said, in response to request PRINCETON, N.J. – Forty-one Princeton University undergraduates have signed a letter requesting the English Department condemn the “anti-Jewish bias and remarks” of a Palestinian writer and activist who recently spoke at the Ivy League campus. The department has declined. The students did not seek to cancel his…

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‘We don’t want to be Yale’: new University of Austin constructing a different model of excellence

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 05:04:00 +0000

President of new university dedicated to free expression describes plans to build The recently founded University of Austin is reinventing higher education, with plans that include banning tenure, ditching doctorate requirements for faculty, and hiring the “leanest possible administration.” The College Fix spoke by phone to President Pano Kanelos about the process of building a new university…

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Princeton to offer course on ‘Black + Queer’ bondage

Abigail Anthony - Princeton University — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 05:03:14 +0000

‘The concern here … is the university-funded imposition of something potentially harmful and addictive by faculty onto students’ Princeton University will host a course this spring on “Black + Queer” bondage and sado-maschochism, drawing concern from some students who argue the class is a thinly veiled attempt to celebrate and venerate the BDSM culture. The Ivy League course, “Black + Queer in…

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