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What the Frack? University Wants To Drill!

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:13:45 +0000

The chant of “drill, baby, drill,” is sounding from an interesting corner. The University of Tennessee has proposed a plan to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on state-owned land—here’s the twist—to give the university an opportunity to study the environmental impacts of “fracking.” The research would be funded using the revenues from the extracted natural gas.

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Efforts To Defend Christian Students Denounced, Dubbed ‘Discrimination’

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:19:51 +0000

When Julea Ward, a Christian and a graduate student in Eastern Michigan University’s counseling program, asked a professor if she should refer, rather than treat, a student seeking guidance about a homosexual relationship, she was hauled before a university review board and expelled. More recently, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing a lower court’s ruling, declared that the university…

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Some Ivy League Students Turn Down Hook-Up Culture

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:38:35 +0000

At Yale, there’s “Sex Week,” during which porn stars are welcomed to campus to demonstrate their craft. At Harvard, there’s Munch, a student club for BDSM enthusiasts. At North Carolina State University, there’s “Dirty Bingo,” replete with school-provided vibrators, dildos and edible underwear. Those are just a few of the more gratuitous examples of the hypersexualized American university…

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Students Descend on March for Life in Droves

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:22:13 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The revolution will not be televised. That, at least, seemed to be the message of the most recent March for Life, held Friday, Jan. 25, in Washington, D.C. Between 500,000 and 600,000 gathered in the nation’s capital for the annual protest, likely making it the biggest year in the event’s history. And yet, on the mile-long route from the National Mall to the steps of the…

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Newtown, One Month Later: Tragedy Becomes Political Pawn

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:26:27 +0000

If another Ambrose Bierce comes along to update The Devil’s Dictionary, “national conversation” ought to have an entry. We are constantly receiving invitations to the “national conversation”—about abortion, the death penalty, same-sex marriage, trans fats. It sounds nice: Every red, white, and blue-blooded American tucks in at the table for a calm, measured discussion in which everyone’s views…

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Ward Churchill’s Last Stand: Supreme Court or Bust

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:18:58 +0000

Until the improbable rise of Elizabeth Warren, he was America’s most famous fake Native American—and, like Massachusetts’ newest senator, a “diversity hire” at the University of Colorado at Boulder. There he taught “ethnic studies” for nearly two decades, from 1990 to 2007, turning his podium into a bully pulpit for an assortment of vogue leftwing causes. But it was when he referred to the…

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Hosting Presidential Debates at Universities a Farce

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:27:23 +0000

It’s widely accepted that universities favor Democrats, liberal policies, and leftist philosophies – so why do such blatantly biased locales get to play host to the mostly widely watched political debates of our time? The bookstore at Lynn University, in Boca Raton, Fla., recently sold T-shirts that read: “We’ve never heard of you either” – a fitting gag gift for the campus, an obscure…

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Youth vote loses hope in Obama, turns to Romney

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:45:43 +0000

Four years after they cast an “historic” ballot for Obama, many young voters have discovered the hard way that the current administration’s economic policies have left them jobless and broke. Everyone now seems to get their 15 minutes of fame, and Jeremy Epstein had his recently. Epstein was one of 82 undecided voters selected by the Gallup polling organization to attend Hofstra University’s…

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‘White Students Union’ needed, student says

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:58:46 +0000

Towson University senior Matthew Heimbach has launched an effort to form a “White Students Union” on his campus, saying he is frustrated by the political correctness that holds his and other colleges hostage. He hopes to combat what he claims is a series of racially motivated black-on-white crimes near Towson, and give a voice to his white peers. “We are living in a culture where we’re so PC…

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‘White Students Union’ needed, student says

Ian Tuttle - St. Johns College — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:34:40 +0000

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Ian Tuttle – St. Johns College – The College Fix

What the Frack? University **Wants** To Drill!

Efforts To Defend Christian Students Denounced, Dubbed ‘Discrimination’

Some Ivy League Students Turn Down Hook-Up Culture

Students Descend on March for Life in Droves

Newtown, One Month Later: Tragedy Becomes Political Pawn

Ward Churchill’s Last Stand: Supreme Court or Bust

Hosting Presidential Debates at Universities a Farce

Youth vote loses hope in Obama, turns to Romney

‘White Students Union’ needed, student says

‘White Students Union’ needed, student says

What the Frack? University Wants To Drill!