Nathan Harden – The College Fix

College Exhibits Nude Photos of Female Students, for ‘Empowerment’

Nathan Harden — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:54 +0000

Nude photos of female students were on display at one of our nation’s most prestigious colleges. “Photographs of women laughing, gazing dreamily into the distance, hugging friends or teammates, holding up soccer balls, or, in one photo, biting into a greasy piece of pizza…” The above description pertains to a recent exhibition at Bowdoin College’s Lamarche Gallery. The newly curated exhibit of…

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Exposing the Lies Behind Feminists’ Attack on Men’s Sports

Nathan Harden — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:46:05 +0000

If you aren’t familiar with Christina Hoff Sommers, aka “The Factual Feminist,” then you ought to remedy the situation immediately. Sommers is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a long-time conservative activist on gender-related civil rights issues. Her new “Factual Feminist” video blog series features short, entertaining, and fact-filled commentary. Despite the use of the…

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Graduate Who Was Denied Right to Wear U.S. Marine Uniform Dies in Afghanistan

Nathan Harden — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:12:06 +0000

CBS News reports that Lance Cpl. Brandon Garabrant, 19, has perished in the line of service in Afghanistan. Garabrant was at the center of controversy last year when ConVal Regional High School denied his request that he be allowed to wear his military uniform to his graduation ceremony. Garabrant had completed Marine boot camp prior to his high school graduation. At the time…

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Starbucks Points Way to Future With Online College Employee Benefit Program

Nathan Harden — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:13:31 +0000

The Starbucks corporation has announced that it will begin offering discounted tuition benefits to employees working at least 20 hours per week through a partnership with the online degree program at Arizona State University. The Associated Press reports that ASU will offer qualifying Starbucks employees a discount off the normal tuition price. Though a combination of federal grants the AP…

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Sexual Assault on Campus: How Common is it Really?

Nathan Harden — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:11:14 +0000

Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars reports some surprising new statistics on sexual assault in an essay published today. He starts by framing the current debate over whether there is, in fact, a “rape culture’ on our nation’s college campuses as some allege: Wood then highlights the research of sociologist Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas, who despite being quite…

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Yale Student: ‘I Was Raped’

Nathan Harden — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:29:08 +0000

The topic of rape on college campuses is all over the media recently. There are two opposing views out there at the moment, generally speaking. The first view is that rape isn’t as big of a problem as it is sometimes made out to be, instead statistics are inflated and confused by the ambiguities of “drunk sex” and the sex-with–near-strangers norm of the college hookup culture, and, in some cases…

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Generation Obama: College Grads Hold Cardboard Signs, Begging for Work

Nathan Harden — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:36:39 +0000

USA Today reports on the latest job-hunting tactic for this generation of debt-addled, underemployed college grads: Stand outside with a cardboard sign. That’s right. Call it panhandling for the B.A. set. USA Today interviewed students at the University of South Florida who have taken tot he streets with hand-made signs in an attempt to land a job. So far, the pair has yet to land a job in…

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UNC Basketball Star Exposes Academic Fraud in Af-Am Studies Dept

Nathan Harden — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:05:59 +0000

ESPN reports some shocking allegations of academic fraud from a former University of North Carolina basketball star: Read the full story at ESPN.com The College Fix has previously reported on the history of fraudulent no-show classes that were offered to athletes at UNC by the university’s African-American Studies department. And we have published examples of the shockingly poor work for…

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Gay Activist Dan Savage Accused of ‘Transphobia’

Nathan Harden — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:22:14 +0000

Raunchy gay sex columnist and sometimes political activist Dan Savage has been caught up in a perfect storm of liberal identity politics. While speaking at the University of Chicago last week, Savage used the word “tranny”–a slang term for transgender people–in the context of “reclaiming” words that might otherwise have a negative connotation. In a perfectly ironic turn of events that followed…

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Univ. of Alabama Approves $55 Million Contract for Football Coach

Nathan Harden — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:24:57 +0000

Nick Saban is one of the most successful coaches in college football history, with multiple national championships to his credit. Still, his whopping new contract with the University of Alabama, a public, tax-payer supported university, is sure to raise a few eyebrows. ESPN reports newly released details on Saban’s salary: Read more. Defenders of huge coach salaries often point out that…

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