“The biggest irony is on the front of the poster it says ‘thought police,’” Audia said in an interview with The College Fix. “So a warning on thought police was censored. It’s pretty ridiculous.”
Category: Campus
*Sigh* I Guess It’s … Fratgate
Fraternities (and sororities) nowadays have become havens for and enablers of a prolonged and destructive adolescence. They are, to put it mildly, utter cesspools of immorality—veritable “dens of iniquity.”
Stupidest on Campus, 2014 Edition
Let’s just say that it was a bad year for freedom on this campus. The lunatics were running the asylum.
What do the Michigan Daily and Kim Jong Un have in common?
You have been (trigger) warned not to ever utter a joke or wisecrack again–because satire is dead.
You’re Right, Professor: When You Act Like A Bratty Child, “We Can’t All Just Get Along”
By now, most of campus (and many other major publications) have probably picked up on the University of Michigan’s own communications department chair Professor Susan J. Douglas’ recent vitriolic attack against both the Republican Party in general and Republicans as individuals. She recently penned a piece, featured over at In These Times that leads with […]
Die-In Demonstration: Style over Substance, Divided by Race
A couple hundred University of Michigan students staged a “die-in” protest Wednesday afternoon, laying down on the diag for approximately an hour, impeding other students trying to get to and from class on the final day of classes. The protest was in response to the highly publicized police incidents of the last few months, including […]
VIDEO: Disgruntled Students Vandalize Review Columnist’s Apartment
Omar Mahmood, a Michigan Review columnist, reported that the doorway of his apartment had been vandalized with eggs, hot dogs, and disparaging notes on Friday night. Several of the notes, sporting interesting captions like “Everyone hates you, you violent prick!” were written on copies of Mr. Mahmood’s controversial editorial, Do the Left Thing, that subsequently […]
EDITORIAL: Doing the Right Thing?
Recently, the Michigan Daily suspended for a week, Omar Mahmood, a longtime contributor to the Daily and a writer for the Michigan Review. A student complained about being made to feel “uncomfortable” due to Mahmood’s recent satirical piece for the Review, “Do the Left Thing.” It discusses the micro-aggressions that the small left-handed student minority […]
Inclusive Language Campaign Stifles Academic Growth
Donna Shalala, current President of the University of Miami, once said that you can’t have a university without freedom of speech. And apparently this is all well and good – as long as the speech is ‘inclusive.’ The University of Michigan’s Inclusive Language Campaign (ILC) is a new, campus-wide initiative that launched this September, operating […]
University to Award Honorary Doctorate to Affirmative Action Proponent
Commencement this December will be welcomed with four additions to the list of honorary doctoral degree recipients from the University—at least one of these recipients has questionable relations. Of these four esteemed individuals, three attended the university in one form or another, according The University Record. Susan Baer, member of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court and […]