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An obscure federal rulemaking, rolling rapidly through the US Department of Education, could put private colleges under the political (more…)

The current saga of Roman Polanski, who aspires to the lofty category of “artist,” reminds us of the old Puritan suspicion of actors as immoral. It may shock people of all persuasions to learn (more…)

We all know America’s campuses are loaded with Ward Churchill clones, lefty individuals and whole departments. But have you stopped to (more…)

“Anything goes” in college classrooms: that’s the message of Ward Churchill’s legal victory this week, according to Stephen Balch (more…)

Just in the first week since the Rocky shut down, think about the state and local stories that were covered less robustly in the absence (more…)

(Denver Post, Mar. 1) One thing will get Colorado out of this recession, and it’s not big government. It is the human spirit. All economic growth is the improvement of material resources by creativity and work. Silicon, ignored for eons as beach sand, became microchips humming with intelligence. Petroleum was worthless tar seeps before men made it black gold. Our state was labeled “the Great American Desert” on early maps. People transformed it (more…)

Tonight on Backbone Radio, campus editor Sean Doherty related the hilarious, but also deeply paranoid, fears of a Metro State (more…)