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Religious Right Attacks Federal Bullying Intervention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ts Russlynn Ali the first time “that the Department has made it clear that students that are members of the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered [sic] community are protected by Title IX if they are bullied or harassed for not conforming to traditional gender roles.” This clarification was quickly criticized in a typical fashion by Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, who said the guidelines deny kids bullied…

The Biblical Circus of William Stringfellow

By Nathan Schneider

…ite a ways now. All the while, it comes and goes. I caught it as a college student in Rhode Island from an older friend. It followed me to graduate school in California, where I found myself delivering it onto unsuspecting listeners at an academic conference. Now, unmistakably, it has followed me to New York City, where I keep discovering people who knew the man. It has followed them longer. Now in his mid-eighties, Fr. Daniel Berrigan’s eyes grew…

Fight the Tower: Protests Continue at Union Theological Seminary

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

…uxury condo high rise on our Harlem campus last week. Following the rally, students staged a 24-hour sit-in outside the executive office suite. The embattled administrators responded with deafening silence. While I was heartened by my fellow students’ activism, participating in the rally and the sit-in left me deeply troubled about the future of our institution. I came to Union because the school has been and continues to be in many ways on the fo…

The Paranormal to Pop Culture Pipeline

By Joseph Laycock

…etween pop culture and paranormal folklore. According to legend, a nursing student received a Raggedy Ann doll from her mother in 1970. When the doll exhibited strange behavior, a medium revealed that the doll was possessed by a dead woman named “Annabelle Higgins.” The student and her roommate took compassion for the spirit and granted Annabelle permission to reside in the doll. However, when frightening incidents continued to occur, they contact…

Books Must be Hardbound, Quotes Whole, and Genitalia Scrubbed

By Joseph Laycock

…k Atheism Society (SBAS) were removed from London South Bank University by student union authorities. Once again, the claim was not that atheists cannot express themselves, but that the posters did not to comply with the union’s standards. The posters featured a parody of Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” in which God has been replaced with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The initial objection was that Adam’s genitals were visible. But when SBAS rep…

Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? Does it Matter?

By Andrew Porwancher

…Jews and Gentiles were part of daily life on Nevis. Admitting a Christian student into the Jewish school would have prompted accusations that Jews were trying to Judaize the children of Christian families, precisely the kind of outcome that Jews sought to avoid. It strains believability to imagine that in a prejudicial climate like Nevis, local Jews would have hazarded that kind of risk. Hamilton’s mother tragically passed away when he was only t…

Image of Hubert Aiwanger, Bavaria's deputy premier speaking at a podium.

Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead

By Annika Brockschmidt

…victims of the Holocaust, which Aiwanger supposedly wrote as a 17-year-old student, surfaced, and was corroborated by “around two dozen people” who’d been classmates at the time. Then, former classmates reported that back when he was a student the Bavarian deputy premier liked to give the Hitler salute and to spend his time rehearsing Hitler speeches in front of the mirror. Aiwanger claimed, despite the numerous testimonies of classmates, that the…

The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation

By Robert Marus

…. Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia, in which a Christian student group at the school successfully sued for the right to use funds from a compulsory student-activity fee to pay for printing an evangelistic magazine. Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center, said the Establishment Clause trend should cause at least as much concern as the Free Exercise one. “I would also agree that the post-Smit…

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,” if you ask me. Then, while responding to my student I thought I should probably scan posts by other students and, well, there went the next hour. Okay, honestly, I forgot what I was up to specifically by then, so I fed the dog and started making myself some breakfast. By then, my partner was up trolling for coffee, and we decided to have a soak in the hot tub while it was still cool in the Silicon Valley. So, there y…

Chocolate Will Make You Thin! Or: How Should We Trust Science?

By Michael Schulson

…the study’s publication before David Broockman and Joshua Kalla, graduate students at UC-Berkeley, publicly identified the fundamental issues with a landmark study in a major field of social scientific inquiry. The second case is even weirder. Earlier this year, the science journalist John Bohannon set up a diet study—an intentionally terrible piece of research. What made it so terrible? For one thing, Bohannon had only twelve subjects, broken up…