From Fast Capitalism, a special issue on Virginia Tech, including Timothy W. Luke (VT): To: Multiple Recipients: "There is a Gunman on Campus"; Stephen Pfohl (BC): A Hokies' Lament: American Social Psychosis and the Virginia Tech Killings; Douglas Kellner (UCLA): Media Spectacle and the "Massacre at Virginia Tech"; Charles Lemert (Wesleyan): Baudrillard (1929-2007) & Mao: The History of Normal Violence; Ben Agger (Arlington): Cho, Not Che?: Positioning Blacksburg in the Political. From The Objective Standard, Lisa VanDamme on The False Promise of Classical Education. The president of Iran isn’t the only Holocaust denier to win a platform on an American college campus, with the BNP's Nick Griffin being invited to Michigan State. Oral Roberts to the rescue? With his school, and son, mired in scandal, the retired televangelist returns—he already may be too late. Look who's bitching at CUNY: An ad campaign promoting CUNY's renaissance has not sat well with everyone at the school. Skybox U.: Why schools pour millions into football programs is a question for academics and arms-race theorists. The real student debt problem: Bush's signature on the College Cost Reduction Act was a victory for student aid reform advocates. But we still need to look at how aid is distributed at the state and institutional level.
