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Today’s College Students Worship Authority and That’s Destroying American Universities

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Q&A with Camille Paglia

Jim Epstein|May. 22, 2016 9:30 am

“This generation of young people have been trained throughout middle school, high school, and college to be subservient to authority,” Camille Paglia, the noted cultural critic, university professor, and Salon columnist, toldReason’s Nick Gillespie in a recent interview. “[It’s] everything my generation stood against.”

The conversation, which took place in late April at Reason Weekend 2016, also covered Beyonce’s Lemonade, Prince’s career, and why she Paglia prefers early Madonna.

https://reason.com/blog/2016/05/22/camille-paglia-authority-college

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Community Outreach Series : “He’s Not Just Lazy:Helping Under-challenged and Unmotivated Boys” by Dr. Adam Price

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January 14,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Schools present the next up in the Well-being series is “He’s Not Just Lazy:Helping Under-challenged and Unmotivated Boys” by Dr. Adam Price. This program will take place on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 from 7-9 p.m. at Benjamin Franklin Middle School Auditorium, 335. N. Van Dien Avenue.

The 2015-2016 parent/peers series consists of eight engaging presentations throughout the school year. Co-sponsored by The Valley Hospital, with support from The Foundation, adults are invited to attend these programs on creating balance in children’s lives.

Click here to download the flyer.
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The Underchallenged ‘Lazy Teenager’

Plenty of time to play videogames but not for school work. Here’s how to help the ‘lost boys.’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/adam-price-the-underchallenged-lazy-teenager-1407799362

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After deaths at Hard Summer, experts push for new approaches to festival drug use

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By AUGUST BROWNcontact the reporter

After two drug-related deaths on the opening night of Hard Summer music festival at the Fairplex in Pomona this weekend, festival organizers, city officials and dance music fans continue to debate the best ways to prevent such tragedies.

As major festivals like Hard Summer grow — this year, the two-day event expanded from 40,000 to 65,000 fans for each night — County Supervisor Hilda Solis has called for a temporary ban of raves on county property, a move that echoes the ban on raves at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum after a teenage girl’s drug death in 2010.

Solis said that clearly the board action back then was insufficient and that further stronger action is needed.

“We will be doing our due diligence,” she said. “Obviously this is of great concern and very tragic,  and I cannot underscore how distraught it is to know two young women are going out to a concert and have to lose their lives thinking they are going to be enjoying themselves.”

“What passed on the board in 2010 may have been OK then. Things have changed now. Now we need to take a very serious look. … I will venture to say I will be doing that.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-after-deaths-at-hard-summer-experts-push-for-new-approaches-to-festival-drug-use-20150803-story.html#page=1

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How to Cut Children’s Screen Time? Say No to Yourself First.

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By JANE E. BRODY JULY 13, 2015 6:00 AM

Parents are often at fault, directly or indirectly, when children and teenagers become hooked on electronic media, playing video games or sending texts many hours a day instead of interacting with the real world and the people in it. And as discussed in last week’s column, digital overload can impair a child’s social, emotional and intellectual growth.

This sad conclusion of many experts in child development has prompted them to suggest ways parents can prevent or rectify the problem before undue damage occurs.

“There’s nothing about this that can’t be fixed,” said Catherine Steiner-Adair, a Harvard-affiliated psychologist. “And the sooner, the better.”

As Susan Stiffelman, a family therapist, put it in The Huffington Post, today’s parents are unprepared “to deal with the intense pull and highly addictive nature of what the online world has to offer. As parents, we have an opportunity to guide our kids so that they can learn habits that help them make use of the digital world, without being swallowed whole by it.”

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/how-to-cut-childrens-screen-time-say-no-to-yourself-first/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

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Nearly one-quarter of America’s teenagers are almost always online

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By Julian Hattem – 04/09/15 09:44 AM EDT

About one-quarter of the nation’s teenagers are online “almost constantly,” according to a new Pew Research Center study.

The study of Americans aged 13-17 found that 92 percent of teenagers go on the Internet every day, and 24 percent say they are “almost constantly” on the Internet, in a sign of just how central the Web is becoming for young people’s lives. More than half the nation’s teenagers — 56 percent — go online several times a day.

“Much of this frenzy of access is facilitated by mobile phones — particularly smartphones,” noted study author Amanda Lenhart.

About 73 percent of teenagers own or have access to a smartphone, the Pew survey found, while African-American teenagers were the most likely to own one.

Of those that use a mobile device to go online, 94 percent go on the Internet at least once a day.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/238304-nearly-one-quarter-of-americas-teenagers-are-almost-always-online

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Why Children Need Chores

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Why Children Need Chores

Doing household chores has many benefits—academically, emotionally and even professionally.

By Jennifer Breheny Wallace
March 13, 2015 12:04 p.m. ET

Today’s demands for measurable childhood success—from the Common Core to college placement—have chased household chores from the to-do lists of many young people. In a survey of 1,001 U.S. adults released last fall by Braun Research, 82% reported having regular chores growing up, but only 28% said that they require their own children to do them. With students under pressure to learn Mandarin, run the chess club or get a varsity letter, chores have fallen victim to the imperatives of resume-building—though it is hardly clear that such activities are a better use of their time.

“Parents today want their kids spending time on things that can bring them success, but ironically, we’ve stopped doing one thing that’s actually been a proven predictor of success—and that’s household chores,” says Richard Rende, a developmental psychologist in Paradise Valley, Ariz., and co-author of the forthcoming book “Raising Can-Do Kids.” Decades of studies show the benefits of chores—academically, emotionally and even professionally.

https://reason.com/blog/2015/03/30/you-know-who-else-thought-the-nsa-mass-m

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Muslim Mayor: ‘I Cannot Accept that Poverty Leads to Terrorism,’ ‘If You Do Not Like’ Western Values, ‘F*** Off,’ Leave!

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Ahmed Aboutaleb, the Muslim mayor of Rotterdam,not everyone is a coward

Muslim Mayor: ‘I Cannot Accept that Poverty Leads to Terrorism,’ ‘If You Do Not Like’ Western Values, ‘F*** Off,’ Leave!

By Barbara Boland | 5 hours ago

“I cannot accept that poverty leads to terrorism,” Ahmed Aboutaleb, the Muslim mayor of Rotterdam, told CNN Wednesday, taking issue with the Obama administration’s claims. “I know how it is to live in poverty. I spent 15 years in Morocco on one meal a day, walking without shoes… I know how it is to be a product of poverty.”

The mayor made headlines in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks when he said on a Dutch television program:

“It is incomprehensible that you can turn against freedom. But if you do not like freedom, in Heaven’s name pack your bag and leave. There may be a place in the world where you can be yourself. Be honest with yourself and do not go and kill innocent journalists.

And if you do not like it here because humorists you do not like make a newspaper, may I then say you can f*** off.

This is stupid, this so incomprehensible. Vanish from the Netherlands if you cannot find your place here.”

He told Michael Holmes on CNN that what he’s received thousands of emails praising his courageous words.

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/muslim-mayori-cannot-accept-poverty-leads-terrorism-if-you-do-not-western-values-f-and-leave#8CZNGa:ViO

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Three missing London schoolgirls ‘travelling to Syria to join Isil’

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Shamima Begum at the airport, your daughter could be next?

Three missing London schoolgirls ‘travelling to Syria to join Isil’

Metropolitan Police ‘extremely concerned’ about three teenage girls from east London school believed to be attempting to travel to Syria via Turkey

Police are appealing for help to find three schoolgirls who have gone missing and are thought to have travelled to Turkey with the intention of crossing the border into Syria.

They are Shamima Begum, 15, who could be using the name Acklina Begum, and 16-year-old Kadiza Sultana. The third girl, 15, is not being named at the request of her family, Scotland Yard said.

Police fear the girls, all pupils at the Bethnal Green Academy, in east London, might be heading to join terror group Isil – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as Islamic State.

They travelled from their homes on Tuesday, February 17 and boarded a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11424884/Three-missing-British-schoolgirls-travel-to-Syria.html

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Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’

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Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’

Student unions’ ‘no platform’ policy is expanding to cover pretty much anyone whose views don’t fit prevailing groupthink

Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they seem like your average book-devouring, ideas-discussing, H&M-adorned youth, but anyone who’s spent more than five minutes in their company will know that these students are far more interested in shutting debate down than opening it up.

I was attacked by a swarm of Stepford students this week. On Tuesday, I was supposed to take part in a debate about abortion at Christ Church, Oxford. I was invited by the Oxford Students for Life to put the pro-choice argument against the journalist Timothy Stanley, who is pro-life. But apparently it is forbidden for men to talk about abortion. A mob of furious feministic Oxford students, all robotically uttering the same stuff about feeling offended, set up a Facebook page littered with expletives and demands for the debate to be called off. They said it was outrageous that two human beings ‘who do not have uteruses’ should get to hold forth on abortion — identity politics at its most basely biological — and claimed the debate would threaten the ‘mental safety’ of Oxford students. Three hundred promised to turn up to the debate with ‘instruments’ — heaven knows what — that would allow them to disrupt proceedings.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/

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Are US millenials turning away from Israel?

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Are US millenials turning away from Israel?
By Niall Stanage – 08/09/14 12:50 PM EDT

Young Americans are showing far less fervent support for Israel than older generations, but almost no-one can agree on why the change is happening, how permanent it is likely to be, or what it all means.

Observers offer a laundry list of possibilities

They say millenials are more likely than their elders to be liberal and Israel’s actions — particularly in the current offensive in Gaza — increasingly meet with vigorous criticism in left-of-center circles.

Millenials are also much more avid consumers of social media, on which different narratives explaining the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians are more readily available — as are especially gruesome images of the human toll extracted by Israeli missile strikes.

These young people also don’t have the same memories as their parents.

Many older Americans can still recall the Six-Day War in 1967 or the Yom Kippur War in 1973, during which Israel’s very existence seemed to be threatened by its Arab neighbors.

By contrast, “young Americans have grown up with Israel as an incredible superpower in the region, and with occupation and intifada,” said Ira Stup of J Street, the liberal-leaning pro-Israel lobby group. “Young Americans often have a vision of Israel vis-a-vis Palestine that is more in line with what is going on now.”

There is no mistaking the depth of the generational split.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/214756-are-us-millenials-turning-away-from-israel#ixzz39v5cS6cm
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