Columbia University announced Wednesday that professors should consider making exams optional or forfeiting them altogether as the school has been rocked with escalating protests, according to the Columbia Spectator. Police arrested over 100 individuals camped out on university property after they defied the school’s mandate…
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Columbia President Refuses Protesters’ Demands To Divest From Israel, Fails To Reach Agreement
Columbia University failed to reach an agreement with pro-Palestinian demonstrators Monday who have camped out on campus in protest of the school’s ties to Israel. Over 400 protesters have been arrested in an attempt to break up an encampment that has been in place for over a week at…
Read More Columbia President Refuses Protesters’ Demands To Divest From Israel, Fails To Reach AgreementBoston Police Arrest Over 100 Protesters At Emerson College As Anti-Israel Protests Flare Across Country
Boston Police Department (BPD) arrested over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters Wednesday evening at Emerson College, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed. Students have been protesting since Sunday and created an encampment in an alleyway partially owned by the college despite being warned that they were in violation…
Read More Boston Police Arrest Over 100 Protesters At Emerson College As Anti-Israel Protests Flare Across CountryHarvard Suspends Student ‘Palestine Solidarity Committee’ As Campuses Work To Rein In Protests
The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) was suspended by the university on Monday after the group held an unauthorized protest against the school’s ties to Israel. Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have erupted at Columbia University, Yale, Cal Poly Humboldt and New York University, with dozens of…
Read More Harvard Suspends Student ‘Palestine Solidarity Committee’ As Campuses Work To Rein In ProtestsCalifornia Lawmaker Bashes Dems For Making It Easier To Get Away With Trafficking Minors
Republican state Sen. Shannon Grove of California blasted her Democratic colleagues for weakening a bill that would make buying a child for sex a felony offense. The bill, which Grove introduced in February, would have made soliciting a minor for sex a felony charge with the…
Read More California Lawmaker Bashes Dems For Making It Easier To Get Away With Trafficking MinorsBiden Admin Releases Finalized Rules Expanding Title IX Protection To Transgender Students
President Joe Biden’s administration released a finalized rule on Friday that expands Title IX protection to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex in any public school or university that receives federal funding, and in 2022 the administration unveiled a revised…
Read More Biden Admin Releases Finalized Rules Expanding Title IX Protection To Transgender StudentsCourt Blocks West Virginia Law Banning Biological Men From Competing In Women’s Sports
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that a law banning biological men from playing in women’s sports be blocked on Tuesday. H.B. 3293, also known as the Save Women’s Sports Act, passed the West Virginia Legislature in 2021 and required public schools and public…
Read More Court Blocks West Virginia Law Banning Biological Men From Competing In Women’s SportsArizona Republicans Scramble To Counter Abortion Amendment Proposal
Republican lawmakers in Arizona are trying to fast-track ballot initiatives to counter an abortion amendment that will likely be in front of voters this fall, according to Axios. Activists have been working to get an amendment on the ballot that would enshrine abortion as a…
Read More Arizona Republicans Scramble To Counter Abortion Amendment ProposalSupreme Court Lets Idaho Enforce Ban On Child Sex Changes
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Idaho could enforce its ban on sex-change surgeries for minors. The law passed in 2023 bars doctors from prescribing hormone therapy, puberty blockers, or performing sex-change operations such as a mastectomy, vaginoplasty, or phalloplasty on minor patients. The law…
Read More Supreme Court Lets Idaho Enforce Ban On Child Sex ChangesBiden’s Promise To Cancel Student Debt Has Faced Legal Hurdles, More Could Be On The Way
President Joe Biden has faced several legal challenges since trying to fulfill his campaign promise to cancel student loans, and legal and education experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that more could be on the way. The Supreme Court struck down Biden’s previous student debt relief…
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