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Threatening Student Health: A New Policy Briefing
Executive Summary Parties, college. College, parties. The two are almost inseparable from one another. Whether being profiled in major publications like Playboy and U.S. News and World Reports as outstanding party schools or not, almost all major colleges and universities around the nation serve as havens for imbibing young adults to let loose. Unfortunately, a byproduct [...] -
Panther GOLD Retreat Itinerary Leaked
The Publius Foundation today obtained a copy of the Panther GOLD Retreat itinerary. The itinerary (available here as a PDF) raises more questions about the event than it answers but it does provide us with some idea of how the University of Pittsburgh is spending student, alumni and taxpayer dollars. Some of the more interesting workshops [...] -
Pitt Increases Tuition, Spends Undisclosed Amount on “All-Inclusive Retreat”
The University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees today approved the school’s 2011 budget including tuition increases for students at Pitt’s main campus and its satellites, The Pitt News reported. Tuition will increase by 5.5 percent for in-state students at Pitt’s main campus, 3 percent for out-of-state students at Pitt’s main campus and 2.5 percent for [...] -
What We Learned From Today’s Trib Article on Pitt SDS
The Publius Foundation’s updated report on Pitt Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) prompted an article in today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In the article, investigative reporter Andrew Conte chronicles some of our objections to Pitt SDS and then quotes a University spokesman, former Pitt SDS officer Jordan Romanus, SDS troublemaker Alex Lotorto and Dr. Richard Oestreicher [...] -
Supreme Court Ruling Highlights Problems in Student Group Funding
The Supreme Court’s Monday ruling in McDonald v. Chicago made headlines across the country but the education community is abuzz this week over another decision handed down Monday: Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. Essentially, the Christian Legal Society at University of California at Hastings Law School challenged the school’s nondiscrimination policy. More background can be read [...] -
Master’s Degree in Liberty Studies a Goal For All Universities
Students For Liberty published a brief note on Friday about the new Master’s Degree in Liberty Studies offered by the University of Illinois at Springfield. The new degree will include courses on radical capitalism, philosophy of business, liberty studies, revolutions and liberty and social philosophy. This is, as far as I and the other student groups [...] -
Money For Playboy Bunny But Not For Newspapers at Pitt
Pitt’s Student Government Board (SGB) is currently debating whether or not to bring The New York Times and USA Today to Pitt during the 2010-2011 school year, The Pitt News reported last week. The deal currently being discussed would include the delivery of 300 copies of each publication each day as well as free speakers [...] -
Report on Pitt Students for a Democratic Society Updated
Continuing our commitment to safeguard student, alumni and taxpayer dollars at the University of Pittsburgh, The Publius Foundation recently updated its report on Pitt Students for a Democratic Society. The updated report addresses in greater detail the University guidelines broken by Pitt SDS as an organization and reinforces the case for the removal of their [...] -
Obama Pushes Job-Killing Carbon Tax at Partisan CMU Speech
Wednesday was a bad day for Pittsburgh taxpayers. Not only did a judge order the city to pay $96,000 in attorney fees to G-20 protesters but the city also absorbed the cost of an Obama visit that was more partisan than it was presidential. Indeed, although the city hasn’t named a dollar amount, it’s a [...] -
New Information and Opportunities for Pro-Liberty Students
The summer is a great time for students interested in liberty to participate in conferences, find internships and enter essay contests. I’ve taken the last few days to update our lists of student resources so that our readers can make this summer a productive one. The new information includes new student essay contests, a new [...]