Education

The University of Chicago was founded in 1896 with the support of John D. Rockefeller in order to give the Baptists a worthy rival to the Ivy League’s prestigious East Coast universities like Harvard and Yale, not to mention England’s ancient Cambridge and Oxford. It was fitting, then, that the school was built in an ivy-strewn neo-Gothic style, using a special limestone that Rockefeller himself picked out to age in appearance much more quickly than normal rock.

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Video From UCLA Shows How Vulnerable Students Are In A Gun Free Zone Lockdown

A campus shooting on Wednesday at the University of California left two men dead in a murder-suicided that sent thousands of students looking for safety and locking themselves down in classrooms.

UCLA is a gun free zone that prohibits students from carrying a gun within 1,000 feet of school grounds under Penal Code 626.9 PC, also known as California’s Gun-Free School Zone Act.

The West is selling gold and the East is buying. What does that mean? Western “experts” are confused, but legendary investor and Austrian school analyst Jim Grant knows what is on the horizon — and why gold is essential.

Last year we exposed the growing trend among thousands of British students who were funding their college experience through "Sugar Daddy" websites, where "arrangements" were made to allow students to pay off student loans and other living expenses.

It turns out that US students are now following this crafty debt repayment plan in the new "modern hooker economy."

A video from Nigeria shows an alleged adulterer being caned in public as punishment for having sex with a married woman. The man accused of adultery was beaten with a stick in front of a distressed crowd. Warning: Distressing content RT reports: The man was allegedly caught having sex with a married woman and for this, he was marched around the unnamed community before being flogged in public to deter other potential adulterers, Nigerian media reported. In the video the man can be seen attempting to get up, but is grabbed and put back on the bench for further beating.