Earlier this month, the New York Post published a recent report that ranked Harvard as the very worst college campus in America for free speech. The article details the annual rankings by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a non-profit seeking to protect speech rights in America. FIRE’s annual report on freedom of speech at college campuses uses a variety of methods to rank 254 colleges nationwide, including the school’s free speech policies, whether community members have been disciplined or targeted, if administrators ever stand up to defend free speech, and a student survey with over 55,000 participants. These and other factors are used to calculate a “score” for each school, ranking the speech climates across varying campuses.
Harvard, the world’s most renowned academic institution, <a href="https://www.thefire.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scored the worst</a> out of every school with a zero out of a <a href="https://rankings.thefire.org/rank" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100-point scale</a>. The second to last? University of Pennsylvania with a score of 11.13. While Harvard is not exactly known for being the most conducive school for free speech in America, is it really the worst?
Freedom of speech on college campuses has become such a common topic in the news that it feels like a catchphrase. As such, the question of what it really means for a campus to facilitate discourse has become rather lucrative. Of course, a student or faculty member at Harvard can say or write anything they wish, but few members of the community are quite so naïve. In the past year, nine professors and researchers faced demands to be fired because of something they had said or written, and seven out of those nine faced professional consequences (FIRE).
I have found infringement on my speech at Harvard to be more about what I am expected to say than what I cannot say. Of course, the list of things you are better off avoiding in conversation is extensive, but the choice to do so or not is free. Words and actions come with consequences, so many people self-censor simply because they do not wish to argue or be casually labeled with an overused descriptor.
Here, the lack of freedom of speech relates less to what I shouldn’t say, and more to what I must say. This side of freedom pertains to those things which we are expected to say, regardless of whether we wish to or not. So-called affirmations of identity, belief, and other people’s choices are expected to be shared. Requiring students to share personal pronouns is not free speech, it is compelled speech. While any person is free to share what they wish to be called, others should also be free not to participate.
Whenever I am asked my pronouns, what I wish I could answer with is nothing. Why am I forced to subscribe — with action — to someone else’s personal beliefs, or be accused as a hater or bigot? I do not hate these people’s beliefs, nor I do not care what you believe you are, I just do not share the same opinion and do not believe I should be required to exercise my speech in accordance.
To reverse the example, I personally choose not to curse, but I do not force others not to — they are free to speak as they wish. It doesn’t offend me either. I am confident in my own position, so I am unaffected by the positions of others. Why would their choice offend me? It doesn’t physically harm me, and it doesn’t rob me of my own rights to speak, live, or worship freely. If everyone forced their own beliefs on each other, who could possibly speak? When some voices are amplified and others are forced to participate, speech is no longer free.
The most visible imposition on speech at Harvard is against controversial speakers. The people who wish to judge the morality of intellectual speakers to such an extent as to violently protest them are so self-righteous that they value exclusively their own opinions. These are the same people who fight the loudest for social equity. A proclaimed conviction for justice and equality is exposed as a deeper belief that only one set of beliefs is acceptable, and all others should be forcibly suppressed.
One of the most damning pieces of evidence is that 27% of students in the bottom five ranked schools of FIRE’s report believe it is acceptable to use violence to stop campus speech, and 45% say that it is acceptable to block other students from attending a speech. By the numbers alone, this is glaring evidence that students do not believe that others should have the freedom to speak or listen how they wish.
I recently passed a sign in Harvard Square that asked, “How tightly should hateful speech be regulated on campus?” My response is, who exactly defines subjects and speakers who are hateful? One member of the community might consider a pro-life speaker to be hateful, while another might view a pro-choice activist as hateful. Isn’t that the whole point of free speech and thought? One person should not get to decide who and what is morally superior and worthy of being heard, rather, the community gets to show its support through attendance.
Finally, the most embarrassing and predictable part of the entire FIRE report is that the Harvard Administration has proven it will not stand up and defend free speech on its campus. It was penalized for such a lack of action in the scoring system. By ignoring the issue at hand, Harvard assumes that protecting free speech is no longer relevant — proof of just how much of a reality speech suppression has become. For an institution that holds such intellectual power, earned through the claims of true exploratory research and diversity of thought, it proves over and over that this is a fallacious shell. Its intentions are clear — indoctrinate rather than educate; force scientific conclusions that support political narratives; and silence anyone whose intellect and voice stand in the way of these goals. 
Elsie Halvorsen is a senior at Harvard College, class of 2024.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A male student attending Rosalind Franklin University (RFU), a private school in North Chicago, Illinois, was expelled following accusations of sexual assault and a campus disciplinary process that favored his accuser.
When the student, whom The Daily Wire will refer to as John Doe, filed a lawsuit against the university alleging bias in the process, as hundreds of other students have had to do, a judge sided with the school.
Before receiving a full scholarship to RFU, John obtained a Bachelor’s degree in global health and worked with the Peace Corps in Peru, where he fought to reduce the rates of childhood anemia. He wrote in his lawsuit, reviewed by The Daily Wire, that he was awarded a National Health Service Corps scholarship, which paid his tuition and provided a living stipend of $1,200 a month. John had a guaranteed job after graduation since part of the scholarship acceptance required him to work two years in a low-income area.
But his dreams of becoming a physician’s assistant were dashed in the fall of 2021 after he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman while he was blacked out from alcohol. Other universities have sided with female accusers who claim to be so drunk they couldn’t remember the encounter, thus making it sexual assault. But in John’s case, the university sided with his accuser, who wasn’t as drunk and remembered everything.
On November 20, 2021, John went to the off-campus residence of a female student, referred to in court documents as Jane Roe, even though a judge would later deny anonymity to John. While at her residence, John and his friends engaged in a drinking game, which he said resulted in him consuming three rum and Cokes in about an hour. The friends, including John and Jane, left the residence and were driven to a bar by a designated driver. At the bar, John continued drinking, and said Jane also bought him another rum and Coke.
Witnesses reportedly described John as very drunk, with the designated driver claiming that John appeared a lot more intoxicated than Jane. Another witness, a female student, also said she had never seen John so drunk. This same witness also later – during John’s hearing – that she had given him a marijuana edible that he consumed.
This witness, however, didn’t tell the school’s investigators about the edible, but did talk about it during his hearing, saying she didn’t originally think it was relevant. But it was relevant, John’s attorneys argued, because John didn’t normally mix alcohol and marijuana and didn’t normally consume edibles.
John said in his lawsuit that about 30-45 minutes later, he blacked out and doesn’t remember anything else about the evening. Blacking out does not mean passing out, but it does occur when a person is no longer retaining short-term memories. In some instances, the blacked out person appears completely normal to those around them and is able to walk and hold a conversation without anyone thinking something is wrong.
John doesn’t remember the rest of the night, but Jane would later say that the designated driver offered to drive them both home, but that Jane insisted on calling an Uber and taking John back to her apartment.
Jane said that she didn’t ask for John’s address to have the Uber driver take him home, did not ask John to order his own Uber, and didn’t contact John’s roommates or his girlfriend to have them help get him home, even though she had their contact information.
Jane said she told John to sleep on the couch because she knew about his girlfriend, and that he agreed. Jane then claimed that when she went to her bedroom, John insisted on going with her and then initiated sexual contact.
John’s lawsuit noted that Jane had to have consented to the sexual activity she described, since the pair performed oral sex on each other simultaneously, with Jane on top of John. After this, John went to the bathroom, but Jane didn’t lock her door or seek help from her roommates about needing any help. Further, Jane was a trained member of the U.S. Army, yet she didn’t show any signs of fighting back during the alleged assault.
Jane also said she never raised her voice before or during the alleged sexual encounter, and her roommate did not hear John in Jane’s room. The roommate didn’t even know John slept in their apartment until Jane mentioned it the next day.
Jane also stated that she texted John the next morning after he left to make sure that he was okay. She never claimed to have suffered any injuries during this alleged assault, either.
Six days later, Jane asked to meet with John so they could talk. The next day, she told him that he did not verbally ask her if she wanted to have sex or continue their sexual activity, thereby accusing him of sexual assault. Consent allows for nonverbal communication; people don’t have to specifically stop and ask for every escalation.
Jane’s allegations troubled John, and he decided to finish his semester online rather than coming to campus.
Four months later, on March 15, 2022, Jane filed a formal complaint against John, alleging sexual assault. John was notified about her complaint six days after Jane filed it, but John was not told any details about her allegations or what specific RFU policies he allegedly violated, contrary to Title IX policy. At this time, John and Jane were given a No Contact and No Retaliation Order, meaning neither could have direct or indirect contact with each other.
It wasn’t until April 6 that John learned the details of Jane’s allegations, in which she claimed that John “engaged in unwanted verbal and physical conduct and touching, aggressive pushing, holding down, moving around, and unconsensual [sic] sex with her more than once.”
Jane was interviewed before John was informed of the details, but he wasn’t interviewed until a month after he received the details – on May 5. This was now two months after Jane filed her complaint.
Just one week after John was interviewed, RFU issued its investigative report summarizing the case in under six pages. The report contained errors such as accidentally including the names of witnesses other than Jane and John, and also incorrectly stated Jane filed the complaint on December 21, 2021, instead of March 2022. To John, this showed a carelessness on the part of the investigator.
After the report was issued, John initiated the process to withdraw from RFU and obtained approval from his program. The withdrawal notice would then be sent to the dean of the public health college for another approval.
On May 18, an administrator asked John if he still planned to participate in the Title IX hearing since he was withdrawing from the university. On May 19, he received notice from the registrar’s office that his withdrawal was approved. On May 20, he had an exit interview with RFU’s director of financial aid.
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The withdrawal should have renderer the Title IX process void, since RFU’s policy states that if the status of a student changes, “such that the person is no longer employed by or enrolled at the University, then the case shall no longer be subject to the Title IX Regulatory Investigation Policy or Title IX Regulatory Hearing Policy.”
That same day, John responded to the administrator saying he had withdrawn from the university and would not be participating in the Title IX process and asked her to confirm these details.
Four days later, he again emailed this administrator for confirmation that the school was planning to honor its policy and end the Title IX process.
On May 31, the administrator emailed him back to say: “It seems your withdrawal status has not been approved and a hold has been placed on your account and registration, making you a current student at RFU. As you are still a student at RFU, the Title IX hearing will proceed.”
John and his attorneys believe that the Title IX office interfered with his withdrawal in order to continue the process against him.
A hearing to determine John’s responsibility was held on June 14, during which, he said in his lawsuit, the university violated its own policies and conducted a biased hearing. These violations included allowing Jane’s advisor to cross-examine witnesses but not allowing John’s advisor to do the same. In fact, the hearing panel didn’t even allow John or his advisor to even hear the testimony from Jane’s witnesses. RFU also allowed irrelevant character testimony to be admitted that supported Jane.
John also tried to point out bias from the investigator, who sent an email with the heading “[Jane filed a Title IX complaint because she was sexually assault,” which to John demonstrated a presumption of guilt on his part.
John also alleged that the university had no jurisdiction over Jane’s claim, since it did not occur in any RFU-owned business or at any school-related event.
As is often the case, John was found responsible. He appealed, but it was dismissed, so he sued the university.
On September 11, 2023, Judge Elaine Bucklo, who was appointed to the bench in 1994 by then-President Bill Clinton, sided with RFU. Her main reasoning behind allowing the school and the individual administrators to sue John is that RFU didn’t show discrimination against male students, but that, even if the allegations were erroneous, they were “no more suggestive of sex discrimination than they are of lawful alternative explanations, including incompetence, impatience, or pro-complainant bias.”
As history professor and author K.C. Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1701287382769602912?s=43&amp;t=zEuer7j4Ff8TVIcpiUO1KA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>, Bucklo used an out-of-circuit opinion to make this claim. When Bucklo did cite an in-circuit opinion, she left out a very important line in the ruling that said that in some circumstances, &#8220;procedural irregularities may support a finding of sex bias under Title IX.&#8221;
It wasn’t just John’s anti-male discrimination claims that Bucklo dismissed, she also insisted that John had no right to assume the university was negligent because it didn’t offer him an impartial process, nor could he claim the university breached its contract.
She granted RFU’s motion to dismiss the case.
John’s fight may not be over. One of his attorneys, Andrew Miltenberg of Nesenoff &amp; Miltenberg, a prominent law firm that handles Title IX complaints, said he and the other attorneys must discuss with John what he plans to do next.

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The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZ8XqHPjI4&amp;t=0s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2017 Maps of Meaning lecture</a>. In this part, he speaks on the difficulty of teaching writing, the reason for writing, and what writing can achieve. 
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The best way to teach people critical thinking is to teach them to write. It is very hard to teach people to write because it is unbelievably time intensive. Marking a good essay is really easy: check, A. You did everything right. Marking a bad essay? Oh my. The words are wrong, the phrases are wrong, the sentences are wrong, they’re not ordered right in the paragraphs, the paragraphs are not coherent, and the whole thing makes no sense. So trying to tell the person what they did wrong? Well, you did everything wrong. Everything about this essay is wrong. That is not helpful either. You have to find the few little things they did half right, and you have to teach them what they did wrong. It is really expensive. The best thing you can do is teach people to write, because there is no difference between that and thinking. 
One of the things that blows me away about universities is that no one ever tells students why they should write something. “Well, you have to do this assignment. Why are you writing? You need the grade.” No, you need to learn to think. Because thinking makes you act effectively in the world. Thinking makes you win the battles you undertake, and those could be battles for good things. If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way. That is why you learn to write. I cannot believe that people aren’t just told that. It is the most powerful weapon you could possibly provide someone with. 
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I know lots of people who have been staggeringly successful. I’ve watched them throughout my life, and you do not want to have an argument with those people. They will just slash you into pieces, and not in a malevolent way. If you are going to make your point and they are going to make their point, you better have your points organized because otherwise you are going to look like and be an absolute idiot. You are not going to get anywhere. If you can formulate your arguments coherently and make a presentation, if you can speak to people, if you can lay out a proposal, people give you money, they give you opportunities, and you have influence. 
That is what you are at university for. That is what you do: Teach people to be articulate because that is the most dangerous thing you can possibly be, and it is motivating if people know that. “Why are you learning to write?” Here is your sword, here is your M16, here is your bullet proof vest. You learn how to use them. It is an endless mystery to me why that is not made self-evident. That is the sort of thing that can drive you mad trying to sort out. It is like there is a conspiracy to bring people into the education system and make them weaker. I guess that keeps the competition down. Maybe that is one way of thinking about it. If your students are stupid, they are not going to challenge you. 
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<a href="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listen to</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson">watch</a> his popular lectures on DailyWire+.
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North Carolina State University <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/welcome-to-nc-state-incoming-freshmen-given-welcome-packets-with-condoms-sexually-explicit-content/21008196/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> incoming students a packet containing condoms, lubricant, and a paper urging them to keep a record of how many “orgasms” they experienced.
After various parents complained, the university stopped distributing the packets.
One commenter wrote on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ncstate/posts/pfbid02oj9NieHU1f94xvu2ib9WZ7JmQ1bzn9k5tMdUFjqEqvcP5mkhB5wx9z9kQBBJ5KeVl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook,</a> “No advice, a question. A friend was moving in their child this week. Why was NCSU handing out these ‘sex kits’?”
“In partnership with CVS, NC State distributes these packs to each incoming student class to provide them with healthy snacks, home care products, and self-care aids as they acclimate to campus,” the university responded. “University Housing has been made aware of a questionable flyer from a condom manufacturer included in the packs and has stopped distribution of the packs. Our team has also alerted CVS of the issue.”
“So you are saying work sheets encouraging 3somes and sex producers are home care?!?!” the commenter fired back.
“The condom flyer, which warns students about STIs using a game called S.M.A.S.H.,” <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23902" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> noted, adding, “The game involves eliminating items from a list and “the last one left in each category will help give you a glimpse into what your next sexscapade will entail. Some of the categories shown are ‘relationship type,’ with options for &#8216;one-night stand’ and ‘situationship,’ as well as ‘# of orgasms.’”
At Boston College, a Catholic school, Boston College Students for Sexual Health not associated with the school and gets funds via a <a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/g_0W6bYyEEqdKIGqe7GRbA2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant</a> from Planned Parenthood, <a href="https://www.bcheights.com/2023/02/14/the-absence-of-abstinence-students-reflect-on-sex-culture-and-policy-at-bc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hands out</a> “condomgrams” every Valentine’s Day. In 2018, 94% of the students voted to support permitting BCSSH to hand out contraceptives on campus.
“All students have a responsibility to respect the values and traditions of Boston College as a Jesuit, Catholic institution, including adhering to the Church’s teachings with respect to sexual activity,” Boston College’s policy states. “Consequently, incidents of sexual intercourse outside the bonds of matrimony may be referred to the Student Conduct System.”

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College students are struggling with basic math, and their professors say remote learning during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pandemic</a> is to blame.
At George Mason University, Temple University, and other colleges across the country, students are arriving unprepared and have to go back and learn the basics.
Many college students are still at a ninth-grade level in math. A freshman student entering college this fall would likely have started ninth grade in 2019, just before COVID forced schools to pivot to remote learning.
Some colleges have even found that engineering and biology majors are struggling with basic concepts like fractions and exponents.
At George Mason University in Virginia, an alarming number of students have been arriving on campus with gaps in their math skills, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/college-math-test-help-6cca6a5e873d5aeb5e75b4f94125d48c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
About 100 students decided to spend a week of summer break at George Mason for Math Boot Camp, brushing up on their math skills. The school started the camp to help students who were struggling after the pandemic.
Fewer George Mason students were placing into calculus, and more were failing.
&#8220;This is a huge issue,&#8221; Maria Emelianenko, chair of George Mason’s math department, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/college-math-test-help-6cca6a5e873d5aeb5e75b4f94125d48c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press. &#8220;We’re talking about college-level pre-calculus and calculus classes, and students cannot even add one-half and one-third.&#8221;
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One of the Math Boot Camp students, Diego Fonseca, 19, said he only studied algebra during remote learning.
&#8220;I didn’t have a hands-on, in-person class, and the information wasn’t really there,&#8221; Fonseca said. &#8220;I really struggled when it came to higher-level algebra because I just didn’t know anything.&#8221;
Before the pandemic, Fonseca had excelled in honors physics and computer science.
Temple University has a math problem as well.
Before COVID, about 800 Temple students a semester were placed in the school&#8217;s intermediate algebra class, essentially ninth grade math, which is the lowest option for STEM majors. By 2021, close to 1,400 students were being placed there.
On a quiz in the intermediate algebra class last year, students were asked to subtract eight from negative six. No two papers had the same answer, and none of the answers were correct, said Jessica Babcock, the Temple University math professor who teaches the class.
“I graded a whole bunch of papers in a row. No two papers had the same answer, and none of them were correct,” Babcock <a href="https://apnews.com/article/college-math-test-help-6cca6a5e873d5aeb5e75b4f94125d48c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “It was a striking moment of, like, wow — this is significant and deep.”
Temple’s math chair Brian Rider said, “It’s not just that they’re unprepared, they’re almost damaged.”
“I hate to use that term, but they’re so behind.”
Iowa State University, which has a prestigious engineering program, saw falling grades and more students ending up in lower math classes in 2020.
Meanwhile, students in grade school have seen their reading and math proficiency <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-for-13-year-olds-declined-to-lowest-level-in-decades-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plummet</a> and are still struggling. In some cases, they may actually be doing worse than before COVID.
Last month, a study <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kids-progressing-even-slower-in-reading-math-now-than-before-pandemic-new-study-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that fourth through eighth-grade students made even slower progress in reading and math last year than before the pandemic, dashing hopes that kids would learn faster to make up for learning loss during COVID.

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Undergraduate degrees in Gender Studies and Creative Writing have always been dubious ventures. They tend to be prime examples of a higher education system that has lost its way and, in the process, infected the rest of America with an anything-goes approach to morality and language. 
But going to college is still worthwhile because there is no substitute for the benefits of a rigorous education. The differentiator in getting a “useless degree” versus one that sets graduates up for success is how students choose to structure their academic paths, and I have advice for today&#8217;s college students: The best thing you can do for yourself is to double major.  
Minimizing the number of elective courses — optional classes students take out of interest that do not contribute to fulfilling a major — in order to complete a second major is the best corrective action students can take to help themselves. Double majoring endows students with the independent reasoning and critical thinking skills they need to graduate and establish a career. And, it is one of the few choices they have complete agency over in America’s <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/our-failing-schools-are-a-national-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failing</a> education sector.
Double majoring exposes students to new ways of thinking where individual professors and departments fail. When students pursue an <a href="https://serc.carleton.edu/econ/interdisciplinary/why.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interdisciplinary education</a> by double majoring, they acquire knowledge about two independent fields of research with distinct methods and approaches for understanding the world. Through that interdisciplinary process, double majoring reveals to students that methods, theories, and debates in any field are constructed and must always be interrogated. Interrogative habits augment students’ abilities to synthesize, question, and investigate their experiences. 
In other words, the process of studying two different fields trains students to think critically — a powerful antidote to repulse indoctrination and spot gaslighting. In today’s highly politicized classes, students may think what they are being told is the only true way to understand the world. However, double majoring enables students to pull back the curtain on academia and “recognize bias.” That skill empowers students to bear witness to their professors’ biases and limitations including restrictively niche expertise.
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For the last 30 years, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-009-9113-z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">international research</a> has demonstrated that interdisciplinary learning augments individuals’ <a href="https://ijbel.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/BUS-91.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cognitive abilities</a> to navigate through complex information or situations in both school and work undeterred by bias or contradicting ideas. 
Incoming students are part of Generation Z, whose test scores in math and reading are <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plummeting</a> to levels not seen in decades. Public high school education has failed to prepare them for higher education and <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23819" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ideology-driven</a> college curriculum preoccupied with equity is not going to close the gap. Double majoring will not fix everything wrong with higher education’s leftward drift from intellectual inquiry to activism, but it is part of the solution to make young Americans more fit to persevere through academic biases and thrive in their careers. 
For example, take two departments that seem nearly identical: Anthropology and Sociology. Most people could not explain the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/advisor/education/sociology-vs-anthropology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">difference</a> between them, so the benefits of that double major combination can appear negligible. Now, imagine an anthropology professor who went abroad to study a tribal village with more than two categories of gender. Imagine that the professor is now back in the classroom telling students to forget everything they know about the differences between men and women because this one example proves biological reality wrong. A student in that class who opposes gender ideology, but is also studying sociology, will know that other methods for studying people exist including statistical and historical research. This tribal village is probably not the answer to the gender/sex debate. 
Gender ideology and other leftist theories lose their power on campus when students have the vocabulary and capacity to look beyond them. 
These skills cultivated by double majoring make students more employable as well. One <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3629869" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published in Columbia Economic Review finds that double major graduates earn more than employees who only had one major. Even students majoring in two arts or humanities departments (think Gender Studies and Creative Writing) make more than single arts or humanities majors. That’s not surprising because two majors double the areas in which students can demonstrate expertise on a resume and it gives them the cognitive processing skills to handle more complex jobs. 
Surveys show that employers are <a href="https://www.gallup.com/education/231740/ways-realign-higher-education-today-workforce.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">desperate</a> to find workers who can <a href="https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/resumes-cover-letters/skills-employers-look-for" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adapt or problem-solve</a> through competing ideas and interconnected information because higher education is not teaching students to be independent critical thinkers. That’s what double majors prepare students to accomplish. 
These benefits make double majors more valuable than excessive amounts of frivolous electives like <a href="https://www.coursicle.com/usf/courses/COM/4931/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disney &amp; Pop Culture Politics</a>, <a href="https://history.ku.edu/featured-courses-hist-364-chris-forth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angry White Male Studies</a>, and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/04/22/fact-check-westminster-colleges-porn-class-still-listed-website/7410820001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FILM-300O: Porn</a>. Students are better off taking as few electives as possible to make room for a second major. Yes, electives expose students to new interests or passions, but collectively they do not marshal expertise the way a major does through the succession of increasingly complex course sequences. The simultaneous cultivation of expertise in two fields of knowledge unlocks new critical thinking skills and intellectual interests for students they may not otherwise acquire. 
College degrees are still valuable when students know how to make the most of them. My advice: Double major!
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=6097122" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zachary Marschall</a> is editor-in-chief of the Leadership Institute&#8217;s Campus Reform and an adjunct, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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A lawsuit seeking to remove a man from membership of a sorority at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wyoming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wyoming</a> university has been dismissed by a federal judge, who said that the court will not define the word “woman.”
The lawsuit was brought by members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming, who sued the sorority and Artemis Langford, a biological <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">male who identifies as a woman</a> who joined the sorority. Langford has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/women-file-lawsuit-against-sorority-after-it-accepts-man-who-allegedly-watches-them-while-visibly-aroused" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been accused </a>by girls in the sorority of making inappropriate comments and watching girls shower and change.
&#8220;The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford. With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today. The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman,’ otherwise undefined in the nonprofit&#8217;s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma&#8217;s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge,&#8221; U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson, a Reagan appointee, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wyd.63248/gov.uscourts.wyd.63248.31.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a decision released last week. 
In their lawsuit against Langford, six sorority members list a number of alleged instances where they say he made them uncomfortable and say that he has not undergone any sex-change procedures.
One alleged incident involved Langford having a visible erection after seeing one woman changing her shirt. The suit stated that Langford stood with “his hands over his genitals” and later asked the woman about her “romantic attachments.”
&#8220;Langford states that he is transgender and that he self-identifies as a woman. His behavior, however, does not reflect a man living as a woman let alone a man attempting to ‘consistently live’ as a woman,&#8221; the girls said. &#8220;Other than occasionally wearing women&#8217;s clothing, Langford makes little effort to resemble a woman. He has not undergone treatments to create a more feminine appearance, such as female hormones, feminization surgery, or laser hair removal.&#8221;
Rachel Berkness, the lawyer who represented Langford, called the claims against him “baseless.” 
“The allegations against Ms. Langford should never have made it into a legal filing. They are nothing more than cruel rumors that mirror exactly the type of rumors used to vilify and dehumanize members of the LGBTQIA+ community for generations. And they are baseless,” Berkness <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/judge-dismisses-suit-sorority-sisters-sought-block-trans-woman-joining-rcna102261#:~:text=Langford%27s%20attorney%2C%20Rachel%20Berkness%2C%20welcomed,the%20LGBTQIA%2B%20community%20for%20generations." target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press.
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Cassie Craven, a lawyer for the sorority sisters who sued Langford, said that it was important to establish protections for women. 
“Women have a biological reality that deserves to be protected and recognized and we will continue to fight for that right just as women suffragists for decades have been told that their bodies, opinions, and safety doesn’t matter,” she said.

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One Georgia college is taking no chances with reports of a new variant of COVID, opting to bring back a campus-wide mask mandate despite having no reported cases at the school.
According to a report from WSBTV, Morris Brown College — located in Atlanta — has advised students, faculty, and staff that facemasks must be worn on campus for at least the next 14 days.
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The school&#8217;s Instagram account also shared the contents of an email that was sent out detailing the mask requirement as well as a number of other mitigation efforts the school was going to implement as the school year began.
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In addition to recommending frequent hand-washing and sanitizing, the school also called on students and staffers to engage in &#8220;social distancing&#8221; whenever possible and placed a blanket ban on all large gatherings and parties on campus for the next two weeks.
All students and employees, upon arrival at the college campus, are expected to submit to temperature checks and monitor symptoms — and, if necessary, refer to CDC guidelines regarding quarantine and isolation if they test positive. Following any positive tests, the school plans to initiate contact tracing as well.
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Staffers, according to the memo, are permitted to unmask only when they are in their offices alone.
As reported by several outlets, no cases have been recorded at Morris Brown College yet this semester — the mitigation efforts were implemented as a precautionary response to several positive cases reported at the Atlanta University Center.
Morris Brown College is not the only institution <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lionsgate-film-studio-reinstates-mask-mandates-effective-immediately-until-further-notice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bringing back mask mandates</a>, however. Lionsgate film studio in Santa Monica, California, made a similar announcement this week — but the mandate did not come with a two-week expiration date. The policy, which begins &#8220;effective immediately&#8221; and continues &#8220;until further notice,&#8221; also comes with daily health-screening checks and contact tracing.

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A defense attorney for the 28-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students continues to question the validity of DNA found on a knife sheath at the crime scene.
Anne Taylor, the defense attorney, on Friday again argued that the prosecution had not provided full DNA information from the crime, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bryan-kohberger-idaho-student-stabbings-suspect-attorneys-question-validity-knife-sheath-dna/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;They have provided full DNA discovery for the sheath, the knife sheath, but not the other three unidentified male DNA samples,&#8221; she told the judge, referring to DNA from three men she said was found at the off-campus residence in Moscow, Idaho.
In court, prosecutors countered by saying they had turned over everything they had.
&#8220;We have given the defense everything that we have received from the lab. They&#8217;ve asked for DNA work-ups on other people. To the extent that they don&#8217;t have them, they weren&#8217;t done,&#8221; Latah County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson argued. &#8220;We can&#8217;t produce something that doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;
In a June court filing, the suspect’s other attorney, Jay Weston Logsdon, filed a <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/061623%20States%20Motion%20for%20Protective%20Order.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">motion</a> objecting to the prosecutor’s attempts to avoid turning over a detailed breakdown of how authorities used genetic genealogy to link the accused to the murders. Logsdon wrote in the motion that investigators found DNA from three other men in the off-campus residence where Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, were murdered in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022. DNA from two men was found inside the house, while DNA from a third man was found outside the home on a glove, the filing says, according to <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/bryan-kohberger-defense-dna-suspects-glove-murder-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Edition</a>.
None of the three reported samples match the suspect’s DNA, though it is unknown when this particular DNA was left at the home, which was the location of frequent parties.
The suspect and his attorney say these DNA samples were never run through the national DNA database to find a match.
Prosecutors have argued that they didn’t need to turn over detailed information about how genetic genealogy was used to link the suspect to the crimes since a DNA sample provided by the suspect directly matched DNA found on a knife sheath found at the crime scene. The genetic genealogy wouldn’t be used at trial, prosecutors argued.
Once police had their suspect, they tracked him to his parents’ house in Pennsylvania and collected garbage from the outside trash cans. They obtained DNA that partially matched the DNA collected from the knife sheath, indicating they had the DNA of the suspect’s father. Collecting DNA from the suspect later directly linked him to the sheath. The sheath was found on a bed next to Goncalves and Mogen’s bodies, partially under one of them. The type of knife the sheath held would have been consistent with the knife used to murder the four victims.
In July, the suspect’s defense attorneys <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idaho-murder-suspect-claims-dna-may-have-been-planted-at-crime-scene-by-cops" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that their client’s DNA may have been planted at the scene by police but could not explain why he would have been targeted for the crime.
Earlier this month, defense attorneys <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accused-university-of-idaho-killer-offers-alibi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provided an alibi</a> for the suspect, saying he was simply out driving around in the middle of the night when the crime occurred.
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“[The suspect] has long had a habit of going for drives alone. Often he would go for drives at night. He did so late on November 12 and into November 13, 2022,” attorney Anne Taylor wrote in the filing. “[The suspect] is not claiming to be at a specific location at a specific time; at this time there is not a specific witness to say precisely where [my client] was at each moment of the hours between late night November 12, 2022, and early morning November 13, 2022. He was out, driving during the late night and early morning hours of November 12-13, 2022.”
Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously unsealed</a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. The footage showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m. The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).
Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. This vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus at around 5:25 a.m.
Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested for the crime. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the physical description of the suspect provided by one of the surviving roommates.
Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also said that the suspect registered his vehicle in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida&#8217;s</a> Department of Education said this week that AP Psychology is still allowed in schools despite the College Board claiming the course was banned under a new law.
Multiple school districts dropped the course this month after the College Board, which creates the AP courses, claimed AP Psychology was &#8220;effectively banned&#8221; under Florida&#8217;s new law restricting instruction on gender identity.
&#8220;We are sad to have learned that today the Florida Department of Education has effectively banned AP Psychology in the state by instructing Florida superintendents that teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law,&#8221; the College Board said in a <a href="https://newsroom.collegeboard.org/statement-ap-psychology-and-florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on August 3.
The College Board advised Florida school districts not to offer AP Psychology until Florida &#8220;reverses their decision.&#8221;
In response, districts across Florida started dropping the course.
The Department of Education sent a letter to superintendents the next day, saying AP Psychology could still be taught &#8220;in its entirety,&#8221; and accused the College Board of &#8220;playing games.&#8221;
However, concerns remained, so on Wednesday, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. clarified again that the course is not in fact banned.
&#8220;As Commissioner of Education, I tasked my team with reviewing the AP Psychology framework at length. I believe I was clear in my previous letter, but I want to make sure there is no room for misinterpretation,&#8221; Diaz <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/08/09/florida-says-ap-psychology-course-meets-state-law-as-is-adding-clarity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a letter to school superintendents.
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The Department of Education believes that the part of the course that asks students to “describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development” can be &#8220;taught consistent with Florida law,&#8221; Diaz said.
The College Board <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/08/09/florida-says-ap-psychology-course-meets-state-law-as-is-adding-clarity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to Diaz’s new letter, saying it offers “clear guidance” that “provides Florida educators, parents and students the certainty they need.”
Last year, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education law, which prohibits classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity through grade three. Another law has since <a href="https://www.k12dive.com/news/desantis-expands-dont-say-gay/650755/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extended</a> the restrictions through eighth grade, and in April, Florida’s board of education <a href="https://apnews.com/article/desantis-florida-dont-say-gay-ban-684ed25a303f83208a89c556543183cb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expanded</a> the restrictions to all grades. Exceptions to the restrictions are as part of optional reproductive health education or to comply with existing state standards.
AP Psychology is part of the College Board&#8217;s Advanced Placement program, which allows high school students take college-level courses.
More than 28,000 Florida students took AP Psychology last school year, the College Board said. The College Board also previously said it would not alter the AP Psychology course to meet Florida&#8217;s legal requirements.
DeSantis has argued the legislation keeps parents informed about what their kids are exposed to and protects young children from sexualization.
“We are going to remain a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy, and kids should have an upbringing that reflects that,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/20/florida-schools-pulling-and-tango-makes-three-leads-to-lawsuit/70338164007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> when he signed the new law expanding content restrictions through eighth grade.
Gender and sexual content in school curricula and libraries has become a hot topic in recent years. Parents have shown up to school board meetings to vehemently express their concerns about the content their children have access to through their public schools.

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An attorney for the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students claims her client was out driving alone on the night of the murders and wasn’t in the home at the time of the murders.
The 28-year-old suspect, who is not being named per Daily Wire policy, has been charged with killing Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022. DNA found on a knife sheath left behind at the crime scene has been matched to the suspect’s DNA.
His attorneys said in a new court filing that they &#8220;cannot be more specific&#8221; about what witnesses may say to corroborate the claims “at this time,” but noted this information may be found during discovery and through cross-examination of witnesses at trial, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyer-idaho-college-killings-suspect-bryan-kohberger-driving/story?id=101999965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;[The suspect] has long had a habit of going for drives alone. Often he would go for drives at night. He did so late on November 12 and into November 13, 2022,&#8221; attorney Anne Taylor wrote in the filing. &#8220;[The suspect] is not claiming to be at a specific location at a specific time; at this time there is not a specific witness to say precisely where [my client] was at each moment of the hours between late night November 12, 2022, and early morning November 13, 2022. He was out, driving during the late night and early morning hours of November 12-13, 2022.&#8221;
Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously unsealed</a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. The footage showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m. The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before coming back a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).
Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. This vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus at around 5:25 a.m.
Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested for the crime. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the physical description of the suspect provided by one of the surviving roommates.
Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his vehicle in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.
In a previous filing, the suspect’s attorneys claimed that DNA found at the crime scene may have been planted by police.
“The State’s argument asks this Court and [the suspect] to assume – is that the DNA on the sheath was placed there by [the suspect], and not someone else during an investigation that spans hundreds of members of law enforcement and apparently at least one lab the State refuses to name,” the suspect’s defense attorneys wrote.

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