by jstewardfree | Dec 25, 2013 | Grey Matter
By John Cuddeback These people will also discover the seemingly insignificant conventions their predecessors have destroyed. Things like this: When it is proper for the young to be silent in front of their elders, when they should make way for them or stand up in...
by jstewardfree | Dec 18, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Andrew Desiderio | The student government at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has passed a resolution that bans offensive speech. “Certain derogatory terms diminish the broadly inclusive and welcoming quality of our campus,” states the resolution, approved by the...
by jstewardfree | Dec 2, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Ben Velderman | Have you heard the one about the 115,520 janitors who have a college degree? That might sound like the setup for a joke, but it’s not. It’s a statistic from the U.S. Department of Labor, and it’s gotten a lot of attention as Americans are...
by jstewardfree | Nov 18, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Mark Bauerlein | With yet another affirmative action case reaching the Supreme Court just months after the last decision, and with that previous decision likely to produce multiple local challenges to admissions procedures at selective colleges across the country,...
by jstewardfree | Oct 11, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Joseph Knippenberg | I have mixed emotions about Troy University’s plan to offer faith-based campus housing. On the one hand, it seems like the careful kind of accommodation of faith in a public setting that I favor. The five-acre property is leased from the...
