Roundup: Threats Force 4 Schools To Close
Four Schools Closed after Threats: Chicago’s Malcom X College closed after a note was found on a bathroom wall; Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina closed after a fatal shooting near campus; graffiti threats at another Chicago school, St. Xavier University, prompted police to shut the school down; and yesterday, Detroit-area school Oakland University was closed after threatening graffiti messages were found in three bathrooms.
A Pillow-fight Flash Mob: Thousands of students gathered in NYC’s Union Square for a massive pillow fight. Awesome.
Head of the Green Division? A growing number of colleges and universities are appointing “green czars” to oversee their sustainability projects and efficiency efforts. Nice.
Screw you, Juicy Campus: Students at Princeton University responded to hateful gossip web site Juicy Campus by creating a ‘love wall,’ with positive statements signed by the people who wrote them, in contrast to the nasty, anonymous statements about other students often written on the site. Cute.
Clinton and Obama Spoke at VERY Conservative School: They spoke on Sunday night at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, an evangelical school which lumps homosexuality in with adultery, stealing and sexual abuse. The college also encourages gay students to learn new behavior that stops them from acting on their homosexual ‘impulses.’ Not a good place to stop - even for a bite to eat - if you’re a democratic presidential candidate.
Wine Education @ Cornell: The Ivy University recently announced plans to build a 2,400-square-foot teaching winery this fall. Looking for one more class you should take, Cornell students? That one.
Stay Out, Men! Nine female students at Randolph College in Virginia are suing the school for allowing men to enroll at the college starting last year. The women say that the school falsely promoted itself as an all-women’s school. I wonder why any men would want to go there witha bunch of other crazy fun women like that.
At Butler, Chelsea Clinton gets Cranky after Monica Question
Apparently “it’s none of our business” to ask questions (especially to young Chelsea) about how the Monica Lewinsky scandal has affected her mother Hillary’s reputation.
Today at Butler University, during the middle of a tour of Indiana college campuses, Chelsea rebuffed Evan Page, a Butler student, for asking that exact question.
“Wow, you’re the first person actually that’s ever asked me that question in the, I don’t know maybe, 70 college campuses I’ve now been to, and I do not think that is any of your business.”
Apparently, Strange said he thought Chelsea “kind of shut down when he said Lewinsky’s name in the question,” according to Butler’s newspaper, Dawgnet. Better yet: he’s a Hillary supporter!
Do you think the question (and answer) was out of hand? Watch her response here.
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