Discovery Institute is pleased to announce two intensive summer seminars on intelligent design, science, and culture from July 11-20, 2008 in Seattle. >>>

Applications for the 2008 Eric Breindel College and University Journalism Award are now being accepted. The winner will receive $10,000 and a paid internship at either Fox News Channel or The New York Post. Last year, the award was won by CN student John Wilson of The Claremont Independent. We highly encourage you to check out this incredible opportunity. >>>

The Phillips Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2008 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship Program. Print and online journalists with less than ten years of professional experience are eligible. >>>

America's Future Foundation today announced a contest for college bloggers with a grand prize of $10,000. >>>

The Phillips Foundation announced the winners of the 2008-2009 Ronald Reagan College Leaders Scholarships. >>>

The Counterweight, the Collegiate Network member paper at Bucknell University, won the Paper of the Year Award at the 2007 Collegiate Network Editors Conference. >>>

Congratulations to Sharif Girgis, the Editor-in-Chief of the Collegiate Network paper The Princeton Tory, for winning a Rhodes Scholarship this year. >>>

Cheers for Collegiate Network alum John Wilson (The Claremont Independent), who has just been hired by The New York Post as the paper's Associate Editorial Page Editor. >>>

I have been presented with unique opportunities while studying abroad in Amman, Jordan. Undoubtedly, one of the most remarkable is the recent trip I took to a Palestinian refugee camp located on the eastern edge of Amman. The Wihdat refugee camp—officially known as the “Amman New Camp”—is the second-largest Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan and home to more than 50,000 displaced persons. >>>

Proving that crazy and absurd antics of college life are no longer confined to fraternities and sororities but have now expanded into the classroom and administration buildings, the Collegiate Network announces the annual “Campus Outrage Awards.” Winning entries were chosen from nominations submitted to the Collegiate Network. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $1,000, and the four other prize winners will each take home $500. From this year’s crop of awards, we learn that reading about a defeat of the KKK in public is offensive, but a public strip show advocating a “new whore order” on a campus stage is morally sound and academically appropriate. >>>

What does Brown have against the Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC)? The program faced heavy student and faculty opposition during the Vietnam War, producing its last graduate in 1972. It remains barred from access to the University, allegedly because of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, established under President Bill Clinton, that restricts openly gay individuals from serving in the military. >>>

For many of the protests taking place on and around campus, it’s time to see the writing on the wall. While their aims may be genuine, the protestors have cost both the city and the university at a time when neither Berkeley nor UC can afford these publicity stunts. And the chances for these demonstrations to succeed are slim, to say the least. The UC Regents will not budge on the BP deal, which brings valuable funds to our university. >>>

"As we watched the planes hit the towers, all Americans' lives were changed. The only difference for our generation is that ours will have to make the largest sacrifices, whether it be in our physical military presence or quite honestly paying off the financial debt many considered to have been caused by the events following 9/11." -- Lauren Patrizi, as quoted by Michael Melendez in "In Search of Generation 9/11," for the Syracuse Post-Standard, August 23, 2006. >>>

If you haven’t seen Juno yet and think it’s just another semi-ridiculous comedy along the lines of Napoleon Dynamite or Superbad (as I did), then you will be immensely surprised. Not only does Juno offer a refreshingly realistic, human approach to the nightmare of teen pregnancy, but it also succeeds in finding various hilarious aspects of such a serious predicament. >>>

While this album is relatively short—clocking in at just under 50 minutes—it is filled with 14 of some of Mozart’s most enjoyable works. These brief, one-movement chamber sonatas—written for performance in church between the readings of the day’s epistle and Gospel—represent a delightful cross-section of Mozart’s caprice, playfulness, and overall sense of musical humor. >>>

D. Michael Lindsay has two related articles in a recent edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The titles are instructive: “Evangelicalism Rebounds in Academe: Even at elite colleges, doors are opening for religiously committed students and faculty members” and “Mapping the Evangelical Intelligentsia: A new study explores how faith interacts with scholarship.” Mr. Lindsay claims that evangelicals in America ... >>>

The Human Rights Foundation reports on the inspiring story of Yon Goicoechea Lara. Mr. Goicoechea “is a 23-year-old Venezuelan law student at the Andres Bello Catholic University” and “has demonstrated a commitment for public service and volunteers with several organizations: one that provides legal assistance for residents of poor neighborhoods, another that provides care for sick children, and ... >>>

Columbia Then and Now

This fall, Columbia University made waves by inviting Iranian President Ahmadinejad to speak on campus. According to a recent news report, in 1933 Columbia invited Hans Luther, an ambassador for Nazi Germany. Then, like this past fall, there was fallout. Professors and students protested the move. Columbia responded by firing and expelling ... >>>

Joe Luppino-Esposito, editor in chief emeritus of The Virginia Informer, the independent campus newspaper at the College of William and Mary, had the front door of his dorm room heavily vandalized early this morning between 4:00-4:30AM.

“I thought it was the sound of water running, so I got up to make sure we didn’t have a flood on our ... >>>

Harvard is catching a lot of flak for its apparent appeasement of the Muslim minority that attends its school. The New York Times’ article on the topic begins by saying, “Two issues of Muslim practice — whether the call to prayer should ring out across Harvard Yard and whether the university should grant women separate gym ... >>>

At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science—especially Darwinian biology—would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment. Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as scientific experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines. >>>