Could 2016 be the Year of the Great Campus Pushback? Could this September be the moment that colleges and universities recover their pride and dignity and go back to being place of learning rather than intellectual "safety zones" for the coddled children of the comfortable? Stay tuned!
The warning salvo from the University of Chicago to incoming freshmen that "if they are looking for 'safe places,' they should go someplace else," has hit a nerve. For a half dozen years, campuses across the country have approved policies about "trigger-words," that might offend certain individuals or groups. So, too, against "micro-aggressions," such as saying to an African-American fellow student, "When I look at you, I don't see color."
BOSTON — The ongoing feud between Attorney General Maura Healey and ExxonMobil escalated Friday, as the oil giant fired back again with a state Superior Court filing urging a judge to toss aside her civil investigation demand on the grounds it is biased and without evidence and born out of collusion with various political factions.
At the same time in Texas, 11 state attorneys generals have said they will sign an amicus brief intended to be filed in federal court in Dallas, joining that state's Attorney General Ken Paxton in claiming that Healey has violated her constitutional authority by working to silence different viewpoints on climate change.
