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Student torches ISIS flag on campus amid chants of ‘USA’

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 07:48:19 +0000

UPDATED COLUMBIA, Mo. – Chants of “USA! USA! USA!” echoed across the University of Missouri quad Thursday afternoon as a crowd of students cheered on a student who burned an ISIS flag in a symbolic gesture in response to continual human rights violations by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The student leading the “#MUCKISIS” flag burning, Ian Paris, 21, president of the Mizzou chapter of…

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College student ruins secret plan to hike taxes on poor residents

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 04:12:00 +0000

ANALYSIS It started with a group of business owners trying to raise sales taxes without voter approval. It hit the skids when a lone college student ruined their carefully laid plans. The entire experience has turned 23-year-old Jennifer Henderson from an apolitical University of Missouri student into a full-throated activist for the voice of the people against special interests…

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Oklahoma State student’s powerful rap song goes viral, sparks anti-Communist movement in Vietnam

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 04:50:51 +0000

Artist set to perform at International Students for Liberty conference: His ‘anti-communist rap has captured the imagination of thousands of young Vietnamese who are all too familiar with the horrors of totalitarianism’ Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo, the French poet and political firebrand, was no doubt talking about the turmoil in his native France when he…

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University of Missouri faculty told to be on lookout for professors who use triggering language

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 06:49:49 +0000

Just three days after ‘Campus Free Expression Act’ OK’d, profs told to correct peers who use words that might offend others Four pages of ‘inclusive terminology’ distributed at University of Missouri workplace diversity seminar Just three days after it became unlawful in Missouri to restrict student speech to campus “free speech zones,” faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia were…

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How political correctness drove away comedians from campus

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:02:03 +0000

But it’s hard for cash-strapped comics to turn down big-money college gigs When comedian Chris Rock explained last fall why he stopped performing on college campuses, it hit a nerve with his peers and shone a light on the politically correct perils of trying to make college students laugh. Stand-up comics told The College Fix they make a deal with the devil when they step foot on campus: The…

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Raising tobacco-purchase age to 21 sparks University of Missouri-area backlash

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 06:31:30 +0000

Law professor predicts federalism challenge to new city law COLUMBIA, Mo.—Students can legally vote, purchase handguns, join the military and be tried as an adult at the age of 18. But according to the political elite in Columbia, the home of the University of Missouri, 18 is too young to buy a pack of smokes. And it’s not just Columbia. The Columbia city council voted 6-1 earlier this month…

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University policy forbids employees from nicotine use – at home

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:45:54 +0000

If caught, users could be fired COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Health System is rolling out a new “nicotine-free hiring policy” that forbids new employees from using nicotine – on or off the clock. Come Jan. 1, the system will no longer hire people who use any form of nicotine, will test for nicotine during pre-employment drug screenings, and can fire employees if it’s sniffed out…

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Missouri white students told not to take part in Ferguson ‘die-in’ demonstration

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:00:21 +0000

Columbia, MO. — Organizers of a recent Ferguson protest at the University of Missouri requested “only people of color” take part in the event’s “die-in,” one element of a larger demonstration that prompted at least two classes to be shelved so students could participate. “During the demonstration we will hold a ‘die-in’ in the student center. We are asking that only people of color be the ones…

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Ninety percent income tax rate would help the rich, economics professors claim

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:30:28 +0000

ANALYSIS Opposing economist asks why disincentives in carbon tax wouldn’t apply to income tax Economists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Bonn argue that the United States would be better off if well-heeled citizens paid the kind of high tax rates not seen since the Eisenhower administration. According to a working paper by Bonn’s Fabian Kindermann and Penn’s Dirk Krueger…

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UO student leader regrets giving free publicity to blogs that mock him

Christopher White - University of Missouri — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:21:27 +0000

Litigation expert says blogs could have First Amendment claim if shut down by university Syracuse University’s fight with its student government over the school’s broad computer-use policy, which theoretically punishes “annoying” or “offensive” speech, appears to have found its exact opposite at the University of Oregon. Student senate members there are trying to unmask and punish anonymous…

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