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By Jerome Burdi and Scott Travis | Sun-Sentinel.com 9:40 AM EDT, April 30, 2008 BOCA RATON - The main campus of Florida Atlantic University was placed on lockdown early today and classes were canceled after someone fired shots during a fight at an on-campus student party. One person, who was not a student, was slightly injured, but police did not know if it was from a bullet or the fight.

The owner of the Green Bay-based web site that sold guns a gun to the Virginia Tech shooter and gun accessories to the Northern Illinois University gunman plans to visit Virginia Tech on Thursday. Eric Thompson owns TGSCOM, the company that sold a gun to Seung-Hui Cho last year. Cho killed 32 students and staff at Virginia Tech's campus. Thompson announced Wednesday students invited him to campus to talk about concealed-carry laws. "What I'm really hoping to do is just lend a voice. Unfortunately, a set of coincidences and circumstances, I've been in the media, and I think with that...

Please freep the poll that you find at the url listed. They are not getting much attention, and it is two to one against concealed carry.

Campus Populist by: Bethany Stotts, April 11, 2008 Campus Progress (CP), a program of the Center for American Progress, argues that “30 years of heavily-funded conservative organizing has made its mark” on universities and it’s time to push back. To that end, CP recently promoted a new book highlighting the successes of countercultural “uncorporations” and political activists. “I come to you as a Democrat, by the way, but I get very disgusted with my party leaders sometimes. You know, like gratifying Bush’s illegal domestic spying program by making it legal. I got an email from a guy saying he hoped...

Updated: April 8, 2008 05:26 PM EDT ALFRED, N.Y. (WIVB) - - Alfred University has cancelled all classes and closed the library per police request. ALFRED, N.Y. (WIVB) - - Police are on campus at Alfred University, investigating a report of a Hispanic male, possibly carrying a gun. He is described as wearing a green hoodie sweatshirt and carrying a back pack. Faculty and students are being advised to remain inside where they are, not to go outside. Update: The following email has been sent out to the campus: Alfred State College has been advised that the description of the...

College students want credit card companies to market themselves more fairly, according to a nationwide survey taken by a credit card watchdog group. 1500 students from 40 different colleges were polled and 80% of the students felt they were lured into bad credit card deals and have been racking up big bills before they graduate. Second year student Carol Castillo feels the credit card companies tricked her and that hidden interest rates and other fees not made clear by credit card companies put her in a bind. "Well, now I am in trouble and now I owe over $3000 in...

Oh, to be a campus activist now that spring is here. “Campus activist” is what the Boston Globe-Democrat calls the students pushing for coed dorm rooms at colleges across the country. Not just coed dorms, floors or even suites. One room, two beds, a boy and a girl. As Dr. Frankenstein said just before he threw the switch, “What could possibly go wrong?” More than 30 colleges and universities, including Dartmouth, Clark, Brown, and Brandeis have coed dorm room policies. This is part of the academic Left’s commitment to social justice, the battle against heteronormative bias, and a way for...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2008 – After completing four semesters at the University of Alabama, 19-year-old Daniel K. Winnie felt his life lacked discipline and direction. Marine Chief Warrant Officer Daniel K. Winnie is telling his story to audiences around the country as part of the Defense Department's "Why We Serve" public-outreach public-outreach program. Defense Department photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “I was sitting around enjoying college life, which was good, but I wasn’t doing much of anything else,” he recalled. At that point, about halfway through his college career, Winnie made a bold decision. “I thought the...

BECK: OK. There is one problem that I have with gun-free zones. And that`s that bad guys shoot people in gun-free zones. They don`t seem to care about the little sign. Too often no guns results in dead kids. Finally, one lawmaker has had enough, Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson. She`s sponsoring a bill that would allow people -- think how crazy this is -- 21 years and older, that have a concealed weapons permit to carry their firearms at public colleges and universities. Amen. Oh, no, did I just say that? Oh, no. It might save lives, because that`s...

Yes 226 (41.4%) No 320 (58.6%)

2008-02-15 L.A.'s defenders of Israel The L.A. battle for Israel's survival There is great racism against Jewish students on college campuses 2008-02-15 L.A.'s defenders of Israel The L.A. battle for Israel's survival By Brad A. Greenberg, Senior Writer A protester from the international pro-Israel group StandWithUs yells outside the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles during the conflict with Hezbollah in July 2006. Photo by Ringo Chiu/Zuma Press The notice shocked Karen Klein, head of Students for Israel at Cal State Northridge: Norman Finkelstein, the much-maligned scholar who wrote "The Holocaust Industry" and has spoken glowingly of Hezbollah, had been invited...

When Pope Benedict XVI loosened restrictions on celebration of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass last July, Notre Dame University’s campus ministry immediately began planning how to implement the change. Notre Dame is just one of a number of Catholic colleges and universities that viewed the Pope’s July 7, 2007, Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum as a signal that the form of the Mass dating to 1570 should be available on their campuses. Others, such as Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York, began offering the Mass of Blessed John XXIII at the behest of students.“It’s actually been a lot of fun to...

“Fear no man of any size, call on me and I’ll equalize.” —Common engraving on Frontier firearms “Call me simple. Call me a redneck. Call me whatever the heck you wanna call me—but until we allow credible and licensed, proven and protective professors and students to carry a weapon (gun) on campus, we will see this murderous madness occur again and again and again.” That paragraph was lifted from my April 21st, 2007 column from Townhall.com right after Cho Seung-Hui (or Seung-Hui Cho, however the heck you arrange his name) killed 32 students on Virginia Tech’s campus. Remember that? As...

First, it should be noted that all the information in this article was gathered about an hour ago because it took a week before anyone from the University Police Department would concede to our requests and talk with us. And also, this paragraph is being written at 6 PM, and the article will be finished before class at 6:30. So if it seems kind of half assed, it definitely is. There were a couple aspects of our University's law enforcement and operations that Jamie and I, Anthony, wanted to address and question. These include among other things; the aggressive and...

(IsraelNN.com) A local task force has advised Jewish students not to enroll at the University of California's Irvine campus "until tangible changes are made" to combat growing anti-Semitism. The Newport Beach and Costa Mesa Daily Pilot reported that a community task force stated, "The acts of anti-Semitism are real and well documented. Hate speech has been unrelenting. There is no indication that the university is at all concerned about the disconnect between campus values and the values of the greater society." The State Department issued a report two months ago that the university does not discriminate against Jews, but the...

Howdy Fellow Freepers and Lurkers?! I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that John Stossel will be at the University of Chicago on the evening of Wednesday, March 5th from 7:00-8:30. The tentative location is Kent Hall 107 (possibly 120). He will be speaking, conducting a Q&A session, and then signing books afterwards. THE EVENT IS COMPLETELY FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just wanted those of you in or near the Chicago area to mark your calendars. Exact address can be found here: http://maps.uchicago.edu/mainquad/kentlab.html Parking is available on the street; a parking garage is nearby as well. Please contact UChicagoCollegeRepublicans@gmail.com for...

Like many campuses, Purdue University has some traditional hot spots for romance -- "The Old Pump," where couples used to meet after dark, and a bell tower known as a lucky place to propose marriage. But engineering major Amy Penner has been so busy volunteering with a women's engineering group and planning her career that she's only dimly aware of them. Her boyfriend has left campus to get a doctorate overseas; asked how much time she spends dating, she says, "That would be zero." Remember the movie "Love Story" and its star-crossed student lovers? Such torrid campus romances may be...

Sex show at William & Mary OK'd by Nichol The university's president cites the First Amendment and academic openness in his decision. WILLIAMSBURG - The Sex Workers' Art Show will take place Monday at the College of William and Mary, after school President Gene Nichol granted students' requests for the controversial show to be held on campus. The show, which students arranged for, is scheduled for 7 and 9:30 p.m. performances in the University Center's Commonwealth Auditorium, where the show was held last year. Featuring strippers, prostitutes and other sex workers performing and discussing their work, the show is in...

The Zionist Organization of America condemned the U.S. government's Office for Civil Rights on Wednesday for failing to protect Jewish students it says have been subject to a series of anti-Semitic provocations on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. The ZOA alleged that Muslim students on campus have given anti-Semitic speeches, distributed Judeophobic literature, and used intimidation tactics against Jewish students. The university's failure to take disciplinary action constitutes discrimination against Jewish students, the ZOA charges.

A Minnesota community college has "a Muslim place of worship" featuring "a schedule for Islam's five daily prayers," according to a local newspaper columnist who visited the campus. Tax-supported Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minn., also has a "sign requesting that shoes be removed" and a barrier that divides men's and women's "prayer spaces," writes Katherine Kersten of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. College officials denied it was anything more than a "meditation" room available for "all faiths." The description of the facility, however, led one faculty member to tell Kersten the room is "unprecedented" and "goes beyond religious toleration." "For all...

Los Angeles police arrested a 21-year-old Loyola Marymount University student in connection with an online threat warning that there would be a shooting on campus. Police arrested Carlos Huerta, a senior at Loyola, for investigation of making criminal threats. Huerta was taken into custody last night near his apartment on campus. Authorities say Huerta is under investigation for posting a message that he would shoot and kill as many people as possible on campus before being killed himself by police. The anonymous threat appeared on a blog called Juicycampus.com, used primarily by college students.

I admit, I occasionally forecast what I think will be an upcoming outrage. I take what I know about the left, factor in past events, take a current event, and try to prognosticate an explanation. I made such a prediction a few weeks ago in Racist lefties and their nooses: A likely outrage. Provocative, and yet strangely, it felt like a no-brainer.Well, they haven't wrapped up the noose cases yet, but we do have proof now of another leftoid nut faking hate crimes, this time swastikas at GWU:GWU student journalist admits hate crime hoax GW Student Who Complained of Anti-Semetic...

Why 'Islamofascism' correctly identifies threat Issue date: 10/25/07 Section: Opinion M. Schouest My liberal colleague Neal Hebert wrote a column Oct. 18 in which he asked that we should stop using the word "Islamofascist." His arguments were common among liberals today. First, they always find some way to accuse conservatives of being racists. Then, they identify the term "Islamofascist" as a tool of war propaganda, used only to restrict deeper thought on the subject. While America is fighting a war against a determined evil, liberals want to make sure we call them by the politically correct name. Good for them....

Many Muslims seemed to favor radical Islamdigg thishttp://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/10/26/many_muslims_seemed_to_favor_r.aspx Before this week, I felt convinced that all Muslims don't sympathize with terrorism. I figured that out of 1.5 billion Muslims, very few actually sympathize and support radical Islam. Things changed a bit after former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum's speech on Tuesday. Santorum made a point of identifying that within Islam, there is the ideology of Islamo-Facism. He in no way said that all Muslims were evil, just those who were in the sub-genre of radical Islam. Santorum's father was an Italian during World War II, where there was the threat of...

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week - Terrorism Awareness Project During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism-awareness-week/ Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week kicks off; Update ...Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week kicks off; Update: Just in time for IFA Week…a new bin Laden tape. http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/22/islamo-fascism-awareness-week-kicks-off/ Interview on Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on National Review Online, It’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week — the brainchild of David Horowitz, warrior for truth on American college campuses. Horowitz’s Terrorism Awareness ...http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDI5NDA2YTFiMDkyZTJkYjI3NDIyMzhlOTc5MDc3ZjM= Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Begins An open invitation to any college students who haven’t been brainwashed: email...

The Left Tries to Quash Free Speech October 23rd, 2007 by Warner Todd Huston Once again, the fascist left tries to quash free speech on one of our oppressive University campuses. Here is a great report on it from some folks who banded together to record the event on video and photographs.Nonie Darwish at Berkeley during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week� is a nationwide series of lectures and presentations organized by conservative writer David Horowitz and his various organizations. On the evening of October 22, dozens of famous speakers gave lectures at universities around the country, mostly on...

Federal prosecutors have filed additional charges against Adnan Mirza, one of the four Muslim students accused of preparing to join the Taliban to fight U.S.-led forces overseas. Mirza, 30, was accused of planning to engage in "battlefield jihad" in the Middle East and financially supporting the terrorism group. Here on a student visa, the Pakistani originally was charged in a four-count indictment with Kobie Williams, a U.S. citizen attending the University of Houston-Downtown. Williams, 34, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge and awaits sentencing. The new 13-count indictment names Mirza alone and more completely outlines the allegations against him. The...

A controversial week of events, billed as Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, launches at the University of Washington and some 100 other colleges next week — drawing condemnations from Muslim groups here and across the country. The UW College Republicans...say the week is intended to foster awareness of the terrorist threat posed by a small number of extremists within Islam. But some local Muslims say the week fosters Islamophobia and racism and attempts to paint all Muslims as terrorists. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, launched this year by a recent graduate of Duke University...is intended to "confront the two Big Lies of the political...

American Muslims Must Learn To Accept Free Speech http://outsidethewire.mensnewsdaily.com/2007/10/20/american-muslims-must-learn-to-accept-free-speech/ And I'm not just talking about Muslims. A lot of people need to take a time-out instead of getting all upset anytime someone says something you don't agree with. Almost every day, I read about some group upset something was said. It's called racist, insensitive, intolerant, and I'm finding I'm repeating myself on these points every few columns. At the same time, liberals call conservatives every name they can think of, because when THEY do it, that's okay because THEY are the enlightened. Local Muslims upset by UW campus event Seattle...

October 08, 2007, 0:00 a.m. Coded on CampusIvory-tower decay. By Michael Barone I am old enough to remember when America’s colleges and universities seemed to be the most open-minded and intellectually rigorous institutions in our society. Today, something very much like the opposite is true: America’s colleges and universities have become, and have been for some decades, the most closed-minded and intellectually dishonest institutions in our society. Colleges and universities today almost universally have speech codes, which prohibit speech deemed hurtful by others, particularly those who are deemed to be minorities (including women, who are a majority on most...

Tailgating: It's all in the preparationSerious fans set up shop early in Athens as season begins By JENNIFER BRETT The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 09/01/07 Athens — Long before game time, the fields were full of action. Grassy quads throughout the University of Georgia campus started filling up Saturday morning as tailgating season, a cherished Bulldog tradition, began. "Most of this group was here this morning at 9," said Kim Folsom of Sugar Hill, breaking bread with a group of about 50 friends, relatives and co-workers. With relatively mild weather following the recent bout of withering heat, fans turned Athens...

Anybody who still thinks liberals have anything but contempt for our military probably also believes that a Vegan diet and cigarette burns are both essential elements to a “tough love” approach for raising children. The fact is that the same people that support the rights of NAMBLA members to take the words “child rearing” into very disturbing directions also believe it is their constitutional right to undercut our military by a strategy of starving them out. For the past few years liberals have been attacking the recruiting efforts of our military on campuses of public Universities. For example, in February...

Why Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Is Needed   By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/24/2007 Members of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) are up in arms over an announced event which they depict as a “hateful” assault against the dignity of Muslims everywhere. “I haven’t decided what I think might be the recommended approach to this,” comments one MSA member. “Do we counter it with parallel events? Do we ignore it all together? Do we use it as motivation to put more work into our usual MSA activities?” Says another, “It would be nice to see some sort of unified response...

Dear Editor: Colleen Lindsay, in her recent column in the DE, claims that her conservative views are being "squelched" by the university community. She must not be taking into consideration the fact that she pretty much got front-page press on the editorial page. Actually, it was considered a "column" not even an editorial. The rest of us little people only get 300 words. As for "diversity and open-mindedness," this is like the pot calling the kettle black for right-wingers. They oppose a woman's right to her own body, they think the government should get to dictate our living arrangements (based...

Worried about ignorance among students concerning the objectives of Islamic fascism and the “unholy alliance” between campus leftists and jihadists seeking to undermine the War on Terror, the Freedom Center has launched a Terrorism Awareness Project to equip conservative students with an intellectual toolkit containing all the elements...

Some universities¡¯ decision to allow female students to be absent for classes during their menstruation period is stirring debate among professors and students. After Chung-Ang University first decided last year to allow female students to be absent as long as they report they are suffering from menstruation to their professors, other major universities such as Kyung Hee University and Cheju National University adopted the system. This year, Yonsei and Sogang University followed with similar systems. According to the schools, a maximum of two days¡¯ absence is allowed for a single period, and no more than four times in a semester...

Students Oppose Contraception Campaign on Campus By Hilary White FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia, February 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On one snowy Wednesday this month, a student at the University of Mary Washington was manning a table giving out chocolate bars and a message unlike most seen that day at contemporary university campuses. On St. Valentine’s Day at the small Fredericksburg, Virginia liberal arts college, a new student group, “Project Plus,” handed out bars of Hershey’s chocolate wrapped in an educational flyer that read, “True Love is worth more than Contraception.” The other side of the wrapper/flyer read, “It makes sense that condoms...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's only liberal arts university for the deaf could lose its accreditation unless it addresses concerns about weak academic standards, ineffective governance and a lack of tolerance for diverse views, an education oversight group warned. Gallaudet University was rocked by student demonstrations last fall that shut down the university for several days and forced the board to revoke the appointment of a new president. Afterward, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education said it was delaying a decision on whether to renew the school's accreditation because of concerns raised during the protests and because of a...

GREENSBORO -- Guilford College has asked five students involved in a weekend fight that some have labeled a hate crime to move off campus while police and school officials investigate. The students, three Guilford football players and two Palestinian students the players allegedly attacked, will still be allowed to attend class and study in the college library, said Guilford President Kent Chabotar. A third Palestinian student, who attends college in Raleigh and was visiting friends at Guilford, has also said he was assaulted during Saturday's altercation. Chabotar announced the school's request at an emotional forum held Wednesday evening near campus,...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - An admissions department e-mail sent from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill congratulated 2,700 prospective freshmen this week on their acceptance to the school. The problem is that none of the students have been admitted. They are on the school's wait list and won't find out until March whether they've made the cut. "We deeply regret this disappointment, which we know is compounded by the stress and anxiety that students experience as a result of the admissions process," Stephen Farmer, the school's director of undergraduate admissions, said in a news release. Farmer said two...

Mon 8 Jan 2007 Birthday-suit parties all the rage for Ivy League students CRAIG HOWIE STUDENTS at America's prestigious Ivy League universities are rebelling against their colleges' stuffy reputations, casting off society's norms along with their clothes to hold naked parties. The Pundits, a secretive society at Yale University, initiated the events - which profess to be non-sexual in nature - in the mid-1990s, open to a select few. The society claims that president George Bush's daughter, Barbara, attended a naked party during her second year, in 2002. The White House has always declined to comment. But the naked parties...

An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a standing ovation last night from a crowd of more than 200 New School students after blaming the 2001 World Trade Center attacks on America's support of Israel and its sanctions against Iraq in 1996. In a two-hour speech at the New School titled "Sterilizing History: The Fabrication of Innocent Americans," delivered without notes, Mr. Churchill traced what he called a pattern of mass murder as American foreign policy from the time of the country's inception to the events of September 11, 2001, which he said the country...

10 Ways to Celebrate Christmas on Campus By James Bascom and John Ritchie “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us.” This most grandiose, beautiful, and unfathomable mystery serves as a cornerstone of the holy Catholic Faith. Every heresy and attack against the Church somehow denies this mystery, whereas all Catholic beliefs are built upon it, and without it the Faith crumbles to the ground, for as St. Ephrem the Syrian said: “If Christ be not God, our salvation is a lie.” Throughout the past 2000 years, every Christian people, each with their own unique customs and traditions,...

Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. Founded in 1693, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia—my alma mater—is the second-oldest college in the United States after Harvard. Like Harvard, William and Mary was founded for explicitly Christian purposes: The Royal Charter listed the training of “ministers of the gospel” and the propagation of the Christian faith among the “western Indians” among the school’s founding purposes. Not surprisingly, given the school’s history, one of the oldest buildings on campus is the chapel, designed by Sir Christopher Wren who also designed St. Paul’s Cathedral in...

WEIRD BUT TRUE By DAN KADISON, Wire Services December 4, 2006 -- An Albuquerque principal is in a hairy situation after driving a student off campus to a barbershop last week without seeking the permission of the teen's parents. Al Sanchez, of Rio Grande HS, faces disciplinary action after giving the 15-year-old boy two choices: receive a suspension or remove what he thought were gang symbols that had been shaved into the kid's head. Sanchez said he "was just trying to do a nice thing." The boy, a boxer, said the designs - the number "505" and New Mexico's Zia...

America's college campuses, once thought to be bastions of free speech, have become increasingly intolerant toward the practice. Visiting speakers whose views do not conform to the prevailing left-leaning political mind-set on most campuses are at particular risk of having their free speech rights infringed upon. While academia has its own crimes to atone for, it's the students who have become the bullies as of late. A disturbing number seem to feel that theirs is an inviolate world to which no one of differing opinion need apply. As a result, everything from pie throwing to disrupting speeches to attacks on...

On September 14 last year, Ruth Kelly addressed a conference of university leaders from Universities UK (UUK) at their headquarters in Tavistock Square. Kelly then was speaking in her capicity as education secretary. Only nine weeks earlier, on July 7, Hasib Hussain had detonated a rucksack full of triacetone triperoxide on board a Number 30 bus in the road outside, killing 13 people. Kelly said to the university heads: "Following the London bomb attacks in July, we are all having to re-examine certain policies. I believe that higher education institutions need to identify and confront unacceptable behaviour on their premises...

Campus Fusion brings "Week of Dialogue" to The University of Texas at Austin Sponsored by The University Co-op, The Multicultural Information Center, and Student Government Campus Fusion, a collaborative vision built by the Multicultural Information Center and Student Government at The University of Texas at Austin, and sponsored by The University Co-Op, brings a "Week of Dialogue" to campus from October 16-19. Through different programs during the week-long event, the campus community recognizes the importance of talking about diversity issues at the University. The Kick-off Rally took place this morning on Gregory Plaza and in the Gregory concourse. Also on...

In an incident that is rapidly becoming famous even among people who don't follow the campus culture wars, leftist activists stormed the stage at Columbia University this month and triggered a wild melee during a speech by Jim Gilchrist, the controversial founder of the Minuteman Project. The incident was shocking enough, but it cannot be viewed in isolation. The mob at Morningside Heights is just another piece of gathering evidence that the '60s are returning to campus. It's a dangerous turn to an era not of "peace and love," but a step closer to the violence and threats that dominated...

Students of some of the best-known colleges in America score worse on American history after attending.According to the Wall St. Journal: In a 60-question multiple-choice quiz, "college seniors failed the civic literacy exam, with an average score of 53.2 percent, or F, on a traditional grading scale." And at many schools "seniors know less than freshmen about America's history, government, foreign affairs, and economy." The schools with the worst records, the Journal notes, include some of the top-ranked colleges in the nation: Cornell, UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins were the worst three, their seniors scoring between 3.3 and 7.3 percentage...