The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) announced that Bellevue Community College, WA will not suspend a professor without pay after he had used a math problem in one of his classes involving a woman named Condoleezza dropping a watermelon off a federal building. The problem had raised the charge of being racially motivated.

The national sorority Delta Zeta gets under fire after evicting a bunch of its members at DePauw University, IN supposedly on the basis of weight and race. Both Delta Zeta and DePauw University put in their 5 cents worth.

The British University and College Union bans pictures of candidates being used in UCU election materials, fearing that looks may influence voters’ decisions. Apparently voters cannot be trusted in making reasonable decisions. But what else is new…

Here are some sources for the Kelo v City of New London case and eminent domain.
Heritage Foundation
Institute for Justice
Castle Coalition
Supreme Court Court Documents at Cornell Law School
Gregory Overstreet – Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
James Ely Jr., Cato Supreme Court Review 2004-2005
Edward Lopez and Sasha Totah, The Independent Review V. XI, n.3, Winter 2007

Good ol’ Germany, my place of birth, no more free higher education? They must have caught a drift from the free marketeers. After all, is not competition the best guarantee for the best education? Well, I certainly must think so, since I chose to forgo the free ride myself…

InsightHigherEd reports on an Arizona Senate committee approved bill that would ban professors at public colleges and universities, while working, from:

• Endorsing, supporting or opposing any candidate for local, state or national office.
• Endorsing, supporting or opposing any pending legislation, regulation or rule under consideration by local, state or federal agencies.
• Endorsing, supporting or opposing any litigation in any court.
• Advocating one side of a social, political, or cultural issue that is a matter of partisan controversy.
• Hindering military recruiting on campus or endorsing the activities of those who do.