Penn State York advisory board member Jonathan Spanos resigns after racist road rage video
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Penn State York advisory board member Jonathan Spanos resigns after racist road rage video

ByNews Polite

A Pennsylvania college board member, who went viral for a racial slur-filled-road rage outburst, has left his post at the school as video of the blowup has gone viral. Jonathan Spanos, a local restaurant owner, has resigned from his position on the Penn State York Advisory Board earlier this week…

Georgetown providing ‘self-care suites’ for students on Election Day — complete with milk and cookies and coloring books
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Georgetown providing ‘self-care suites’ for students on Election Day — complete with milk and cookies and coloring books

ByNews Polite

Students at an elite DC university who are worried they may hear points of view they disagree with on Election Day are being offered “self-care suites’’ where they can sip hot cocoa until the scary stuff blows over. Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy — a crucible for our…

Harvard president says fundraising down in wake of anti-Israel turmoil
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Harvard president says fundraising down in wake of anti-Israel turmoil

ByNews Polite

Harvard’s president is lamenting the university’s poor fundraising numbers as it continues to grapple with the fallout of a rocky year filled with campus turmoil and accusations of rampant antisemitism. University leader Alan Garber made the comments last week as Harvard prepares to release its 2024 financial report later this…

Virginia Sweet Briar College bans transgender women from admission based on founder’s will from 1900
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Virginia Sweet Briar College bans transgender women from admission based on founder’s will from 1900

ByNews Polite

Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year, making the school an outlier among the nation’s diminishing number of women’s colleges. The private women’s liberal arts school said the policy stems from the legally binding will of its founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams,…

Ex-University of Kentucky student in horrifying caught-on-camera racist attack pleads guilty
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Ex-University of Kentucky student in horrifying caught-on-camera racist attack pleads guilty

ByNews Polite

The ex-University of Kentucky student caught on viral video attacking a black student while firing off an arsenal of racist slurs — including the N-word more than 200 times — has pleaded guilty to assault charges, according to a report. Sophia Rosing, 23, pleaded guilty to four counts of fourth-degree assault,…

Taxpayers without student loans should not pay for those of others
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Taxpayers without student loans should not pay for those of others

ByNews Polite

(The Center Square) – North Carolinians without student loans “should not have to pay for someone else’s degree,” US Sen. Thom Tillis says. For the 87% in the state’s population without student loan debt, the state’s senior senator says worsening inequality and adding $1.4 trillion to national debt through President…

UT Southwestern teaches med students ‘gender is independent of physical structure’
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UT Southwestern teaches med students ‘gender is independent of physical structure’

ByNews Polite

Documents obtained by Fox News Digital show that University of Texas Southwestern medical students are being taught that gender is independent of physical structure. Fox News Digital obtained the documents via a FOIA request from Do No Harm, a national association of medical professionals that combats “woke” activism in the healthcare…

‘Teacher’ Randi Weingarten’s ignorant, anti-democratic rant
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‘Teacher’ Randi Weingarten’s ignorant, anti-democratic rant

ByNews Polite

Randi Weingarten — the nation’s top teacher, in a sense — seems ignorant of what any child could learn about government from “Schoolhouse Rock.” The American Federation of Teachers boss made that painfully clear (and we mean painfully) Tuesday by launching into an unhinged tirade in front of the Supreme…