Alex Katz – Fix Contributor – The College Fix https://www.thecollegefix.com Breaking Campus News. Launching Media Careers. Sun, 24 May 2015 05:13:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 41534715 Obama’s attack on the charitable deduction https://www.thecollegefix.com/obamas-attack-on-the-charitable-deduction/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/obamas-attack-on-the-charitable-deduction/#respond Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:28:11 +0000 http://www.thecollegefix.com/?p=9526 Lawmakers got heated Tuesday over the future of the charitable deduction at a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. “There has been a charitable deduction in the tax code for nearly a century, and the proposals on the table would undo it,” Sen. Orrin Hatch said during the hearing. “This is not the area for experimentation by the federal government.”…

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]]> https://www.thecollegefix.com/obamas-attack-on-the-charitable-deduction/feed/ 0 9526 Stanford in talks to add Naval ROTC on campus https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-in-talks-to-add-naval-rotc-on-campus/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-in-talks-to-add-naval-rotc-on-campus/#respond Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:59:17 +0000 http://www.thecollegefix.com/?p=9413 The Stanford administration has begun serious discussions with branches of the military about setting up an on-campus ROTC program. Senior Stanford administrators and the Navy’s Public Affairs Office have confirmed that substantive talks are underway regarding an expansion of a Navy/Marine Corps ROTC program (NROTC). In the wake of the Faculty Senate approving ROTC’s return…

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]]> https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-in-talks-to-add-naval-rotc-on-campus/feed/ 0 9413 Student loan default rates highest since the 1990s https://www.thecollegefix.com/student-loan-default-rates-highest-since-the-1990s/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/student-loan-default-rates-highest-since-the-1990s/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:56:16 +0000 http://www.thecollegefix.com/?p=9233 Student loan default rates on are on the rise, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education earlier this week. The student loan default rate nationally climbed to 8.8 percent for fiscal year 2009, the highest the national default rate has been since 1997. It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise: Student debt eclipsed both national credit card debt and the $1 trillion mark…

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]]> https://www.thecollegefix.com/student-loan-default-rates-highest-since-the-1990s/feed/ 1 9233 Anti-Semitic vandalism on the rise on campus https://www.thecollegefix.com/anti-semitism-on-the-rise-on-campus/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/anti-semitism-on-the-rise-on-campus/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:12:52 +0000 http://www.studentfreepress.net/?p=6112 On a Monday during Hanukkah, someone took eight Hebrew texts down from the shelves of Indiana University’s Wells Library, put the books in eight different bathrooms, threw them in toilets and urinated on them. The next day, two rocks were thrown into Jewish buildings on Indiana’s campus. The same week, a large menorah at the University of Florida was uprooted and vandalized — the night after…

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]]> https://www.thecollegefix.com/anti-semitism-on-the-rise-on-campus/feed/ 8 6112 Stanford Faculty Senate ROTC Committee reacts to DADT repeal https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-faculty-senate-rotc-committee-reacts-to-dadt-repeal/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-faculty-senate-rotc-committee-reacts-to-dadt-repeal/#respond Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:37:07 +0000 http://www.studentfreepress.net/?p=5408 As we discussed yesterday, a series of Ivy League schools quickly signaled their intention to accelerate discussion of ROTC in the wake of the U.S. Senate’s vote to repeal the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Now the chair of the Faculty Senate’s committee on ROTC, Professor Ewart Thomas, has issued a statement regarding the effect of the DADT overturn on the ROTC debate at…

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]]> https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-faculty-senate-rotc-committee-reacts-to-dadt-repeal/feed/ 0 5408 Stanford Queer Liberation Group behind the “White Privilege” fliers https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-queer-liberation-group-behind-the-%e2%80%9cwhite-privilege%e2%80%9d-fliers/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-queer-liberation-group-behind-the-%e2%80%9cwhite-privilege%e2%80%9d-fliers/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:45:44 +0000 http://www.studentfreepress.net/?p=5363 The group behind the “white privilege” and “heterosexual privilege” fliers has come forward. Stanford Students for Queer Liberation, now famous for its anti-military op-ed in the Daily, has claimed responsibility for the fliers. The group’s co-presidents, Holly Fetter ’13 and Alok Vaid-Menon ’13, emailed me about a week ago to let me know that they had posted the fliers around campus.

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]]> https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-queer-liberation-group-behind-the-%e2%80%9cwhite-privilege%e2%80%9d-fliers/feed/ 1 5363 ‘White privilege,’ ‘heterosexual privilege’ fliers pop up at Stanford https://www.thecollegefix.com/white-privilege-heterosexual-privilege-fliers-pop-up-at-stanford/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/white-privilege-heterosexual-privilege-fliers-pop-up-at-stanford/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:17:04 +0000 http://www.studentfreepress.net/?p=5085 When walking through White Plaza today, I happened upon some fliers with strong statements about “white privilege” and “heterosexual privilege.” The fliers have been plastered all over bollards in White Plaza and near Meyer Library. No group or individual appears to have taken responsibility for the fliers. Messages included: Thought provoking? Eh, I don’t think so. What do you think?

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]]> https://www.thecollegefix.com/white-privilege-heterosexual-privilege-fliers-pop-up-at-stanford/feed/ 5 5085 Video: Talking ROTC with ‘Cam and Company’ https://www.thecollegefix.com/video-talking-rotc-with-cam-and-company/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/video-talking-rotc-with-cam-and-company/#respond Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:59:55 +0000 http://www.studentfreepress.net/?p=4949 Last Tuesday (Nov 16), I wrote a blog post responding to a Daily op-ed that criticized the campaign to return ROTC to campus. The post got picked up by Instapundit, and soon thereafter, I was contacted by the NRA News radio program Cam and Company of Sirius Patriot. On Thursday, I was a guest on the program to discuss ROTC at Stanford. The interview is below: Alex Katz blogs at Fiat Lux and…

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]]> https://www.thecollegefix.com/video-talking-rotc-with-cam-and-company/feed/ 0 4949 Stanford Indian controversy returns — with t-shirts https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-indian-controversy-returns-with-t-shirts/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-indian-controversy-returns-with-t-shirts/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:45:05 +0000 http://www.studentfreepress.net/?p=4921 Another Stanford Indian scandal could be brewing on the Farm. This time, the controversy surrounds a t-shirt with an image of an Indian chief that looks a lot like Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh. Rob Wellington, a Stanford alum from the class of ’04, has been selling the “Fighting Harbaughs” shirts for a couple of weeks on his website, www.fightingharbaughs.com.

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]]> https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-indian-controversy-returns-with-t-shirts/feed/ 1 4921 The ROTC debate at Stanford’s heating up even more https://www.thecollegefix.com/the-rotc-debate-at-stanfords-heating-up-even-more/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/the-rotc-debate-at-stanfords-heating-up-even-more/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:57:15 +0000 http://www.studentfreepress.net/?p=4819 For the second straight day, an anti-ROTC op-ed has appeared in the pages of the Stanford Daily. This time, a student in the law school wrote in with an appeal clearly intended more for the moderates of Stanford’s population (unlike yesterday’s, which expressed a “radical queer” agenda — their words, not mine). Once more, I’ll lay out the central arguments and address them in turn. In my mind…

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