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A number of scholars from top U.S. universities have written an open letter to incoming students, urging them to embrace critical thinking and resist the “tyranny of public opinion.”

Steve Mnuchin has come under fire from fellow members of the Yale class of 1985 to resign from his position as Secretary of Treasury.

The same “speech is violence” arguments used at Berkeley are being made in the wake of the violence at Charlottesville — not just by Antifa, but by widely respected members of the media and political establishment.

A new study has found that New England colleges and universities, including prestigious Ivy League schools, are the most closed-minded in the country when it comes to entertaining a diversity of political and cultural viewpoints.

Elite colleges talk a big game when it comes to gender equality but the outsized gender pay gap of their graduates tells a different story.

Yale Dean June Chu was forced to apologize after she called people “white trash” and “uneducated morons” in a series of Yelp reviews of restaurants and businesses in the New Haven, Connecticut, area.

Members of the Yale College Republicans held a barbecue on Friday next to eight graduate student teachers on a hunger strike over the Yale University’s refusal to negotiate with its newly formed union.

An economics professor at Yale University has reportedly made an upcoming midterm optional for students distraught over Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s presidential election.

Former Yale Professor Erika Christakis, whose email about Halloween costumes last year incited significant campus tension, declared in an editorial on Monday that campus coddling culture actually harms those that it intends to protect.

While commenting on a campus survey that revealed that 75 percent of Yale students believe that right-wing views are unwelcome on campus, Dean Jonathan Holloway was accused of implying this is because conservative students say “stupid” things.

According to a report by the Yale Daily News, a recent survey revealed that conservative views are “unwelcome” on the Ivy League school’s campus.

The English novelist Kingsley Amis once observed that much that was wrong with the 20th century could be summed up in the word “workshop.” On American campuses today, I suspect that the operative word is “committee.”

Special snowflake undergraduates at Oxford University are campaigning to have their workload reduced. Some of them have to write as many as three essays a week. And this, apparently, is too much. Cat Jones, of the Oxford University Student Union, told the

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth are too white and male, say Yale students who want to “diversify” the curriculum.

Australia’s national women’s soccer team – hotly tipped for a medal at the Rio Olympics – has  been thrashed 7-0 by a team of under-15-year-old boys. Students at Yale University have petitioned their English Department for a change of curriculum. They

The lawyer for Yale basketball team captain Jack Montague now says the player may sue the school over his expulsion for the alleged sexual assault a female student. The dismissal was “excessive” and Montague was made a “whipping boy” for the assumed “rape culture” that supposedly haunts higher education in America, the lawyer said.

Yale plays in its first NCAA tournament since 1962. But the basketball team does so without its team captain.

Yale University is to close its Climate & Energy Institute. With sweet serendipity, the heartbreaking announcement on the university’s website coincides with the news that the institute’s founding head Rajendra Pachauri has been formally charged with sexual harrassment. How different

The climate alarmists have come up with a brilliant new excuse to explain why there has been no “global warming” for nearly 19 years. Turns out the satellite data is lying. And to prove it they’ve come up with a glossy

President Obama says Black Lives Matter, the controversial protest movement currently stoking anti-cop hatred in America, is still a force for good.

Harvard’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion has abandoned any pretence of political impartiality, and is using its resources to push far-Left progressive talking points onto its students, according to one student who sent us this remarkable “Christmas placemat.” A number

I am so fed up with all this BS. Who do you pajama boys and womyn’s studies majors and queer-theory professors think you’re kidding? It was a bad joke back in 1969 when some fool wrote a book called “The Student As Nigger,” and it’s even more preposterous now when a bunch of Ivy League pukes in New Haven have the gall to describe themselves as “marginalized students.” Shut the bleep up.

Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Mag writes that the marvelous term “crybully” was coined by Julie Burchill at The Spectator, who described them as “a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper.”

As Yale students demand greater administrative oversight to sustain the “safe spaces” on their campus, University of Oklahoma professor David Deming is denouncing the threats inherent to college campuses and seeking the ability to carry a gun for self-defense.

The president of the University of Missouri, Tim Wolfe, is out, forced to resign by protests over his allegedly inadequate response to racist incidents on campus.

In 1941, when Jack Kerouac boarded a bus for New Haven, the Columbia running back never stopped at the Yale Bowl. Shamed for arriving at training camp a day late and subsequently botching Columbia Coach Lou Little’s misdirection plays, Kerouac quit football in early fall. “As if I joined football for ‘deception,’ for God’s sake,” Kerouac wrote.

If you don’t believe in climate change you’re as bad as Hitler. There. I’ve just precised a long article which appeared in the New York Times over the weekend with the title The Next Genocide. Rather worryingly it was the

Saleh Abdullah Kamel, a Saudi banker who is now worth billions of dollars thanks to his success with Sharia-compliant financing, has donated $10 million to Yale University as part of a successful effort to build an Islamic Law Center at the Ivy League school.

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday’s “AC360,” New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow refused to back off allegations of racism involved in his son’s arrest at gunpoint by Yale campus police earlier this week. Blow levied

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow is “fuming” over the fact that his black son was stopped and questioned by police on Saturday as they searched for a black robbery suspect.