No. You still can’t scream it in a crowded room without cause due to the ruling in Schneck v. US, but FIRE, which stands for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, thinks you should be able to say a lot of other things in school that you can’t currently say. Every year FIRE grades […]
Within a week of the Penn State faithful hearing that highly-touted recruit and backup quarterback Pat Devlin would be transferring elsewhere for next season, another high-profile signal caller stepped in his place. Kevin Newsome will be Lions’ quarterback of the future. The Hargrave Military Academy (Chatham, Virginia) recruit, who is ranked eighth nationally among quarterbacks […]
Lots of Joe Paterno news today. FightOnState.com is reporting that Joe Paterno and the university have agreed on a 3-year extension to the coach’s contract. The site predicts that the information will be made public by the end of the week. The story has already been picked up by Penn Live and FOX Sports. The […]
Utica College is installing a new “sensitive compartmented information facility” on its campus. The Buildings & Grounds blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education posted some technical info about the room’s security features. The most impressive and unusual component is the foil that surrounds the room. Not all SCIF’s have foil linings, a feature that […]
Charles Blow opined in the New York Times on Saturday that teenagers these days have no morals no longer believe in dating. It turns out that everything is the opposite of what I remember. Under the old model, you dated a few times and, if you really liked the person, you might consider having sex. […]
NOT! President-Elect (officially) Obama chose his friend Arne Duncan, Chief of the Chicago Public Schools to be the next Education Secretary (Cronyism anyone?). With that, Spanier will remain in State College for the foreseeable future. Mr. Obama plans to announce his nomination of Mr. Duncan tomorrow in Chicago, according to Democratic sources speaking on the […]