There’s never a dull moment reporting on higher education, and 2023 was no exception.<\/p>\n
In no particular order, here are the top 10 most outrageous stories The College Fix<\/em> published this year:<\/p>\n Universities greet students with \u2018Queering Menstruation,\u2019 \u2018Anal 101\u2019 events<\/a><\/strong> Masturbating protester interrupts black conservatives\u2019 event at UW-Madison<\/strong><\/a> Academics insist infants, toddlers can be trans<\/a><\/strong> \u2018Too rock heavy,\u2019 too ableist, too white: Geoscience students identify concerns in field<\/a><\/strong> Professor seeks males for testicle removal study<\/a><\/strong> UNLV law school apologizes for using word \u2018picnic,\u2019 changes it to \u2018Lunch by the Lake\u2019<\/a><\/strong> Princeton students host musical titled \u2018To All the Babies I\u2019ve Killed Before\u2019<\/a><\/strong> Fauxcahontas: White female scholars keep pretending to be Native American<\/a><\/strong> Students list \u2018Apache attack helicopter\u2019 as gender on \u2018engineering culture\u2019 survey<\/a><\/strong>
\nNothing says “Welcome to college, kids” like a good old fashioned anal sex workshop. But that’s how things roll in today’s higher education world. Annual “Sex Week<\/a>” observances, popularized over a decade ago by elite universities, have since become the norm on dozens of college campuses each year. As The College Fix<\/em> reported at the start of the fall 2023 semester, at some schools this year’s freshmen were met with events<\/a> such as \u201cQueering Menstruation,” \u201cAnal 101″ and a “C*nty Hunt<\/a>.”<\/p>\n
\nInstead of the typical shout down-styled protest so often found on college campuses today, a few protesters got creative at the University of Wisconsin Madison earlier this year. A panel event featuring some of most prominent black conservatives in the nation was interrupted<\/a> when vulgar protesters piped into its Zoom livestream and spewed cuss words before one man exposed himself masturbating. But the center-right scholars took it in stride, with one of them quick with a quip, telling the protester to relax and have a drink and a cigar.<\/p>\n
\nHeadlines from The College Fix<\/em> this year included<\/a> “Faculty union: UArizona nursing students should ask 3-year-olds about \u2018gender identity,\u2019” as well as<\/a> “Harvard med class focuses on LGBTQIA+ \u2018infants\u2019 and older.” It’s clear the academics believe — and are pushing on med school students — the concept that young children can be transgender, and the troubling trend shows no end in sight<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nImagine being a geologist who never leaves the office. That’s what today’s social justice warriors seem to want thanks to a new trend that argues the field is too ableist. But wait, there’s more. Geology field camps are also accused of being<\/a> racist, sexist, role-playing exercises driven by toxic masculinity and centered around reliving Manifest Destiny, \u201csubjugating the native populations,\u201d and the \u201cconquest of the west by the white man.” That’s quite the list.<\/p>\n
\nThe headline speaks for itself on this one, folks.<\/p>\n
\nThe war against the word “picnic” gained more steam this year after the UNLV law school apologized for using the word because it allegedly, supposedly, somehow is linked to lynchings. Keen-eyed College Fix<\/em> readers might recall that in 2020 the University of Michigan\u2019s IT department also listed “picnic\u201d as an offensive word. If picnic is problematic, nothing is safe anymore. Banned words on campus in 2023 also include “crippled<\/a>,” “white paper<\/a>,” “black sheep<\/a>” and “dark web<\/a>.”<\/p>\n
\nThe progressive left celebrates abortion, and nowhere was that more clear than a feminist musical put on at Princeton University this year focused on abortion and \u201cself-empowerment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMore over Rachel Dolezal. At least five white women, and men as well, have claimed Native American ancestry to advance their academic careers. Odd that white privilege is so powerful professors flock to identify as scholars of color.<\/p>\n
\nThis is an outrageous headline, but in a good way. Some students wrote that their gender was \u201cApache attack helicopter\u201d in response to a progressive survey about \u201cengineering culture.” Other responses included a \u201cV-22 Osprey\u201d and a \u201cF-16 fighter jet.\u201d Some answers also appeared to express frustration with the survey, such as \u201chomophobic biggot, yes we exist,\u201d \u201cCis gender lizard king,\u201d and \u201cF*cking white male.\u201d Troll level: master.<\/p>\n