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Update: The Collegiate Network (CN), affiliated with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), has accepted Indiana State University's conservative publication, the Watchman into its membership. As a member, the Watchman can be provided annual operating grants, journalistic training conferences, campus mentoringsessions, story ideas and editorial resources, summer and year-long internships at leading national media outlets, andexclusive access to a wire service forged among the National Review, the Weekly Standard and the American Spectator.
The Watchman has obtained copies of faculty, administration and other staff salaries at Indiana State via Indianapolis Star’s database of more than 75,000 state government and public university employees. The database reveals some interesting insights into where ISU places their priorities.
As expected, Indiana State president is ISU’s highest paid employee, earning nearly $228,000. Second to Network Financial Institute executive director Elizabeth A. Coit, earn $206,000 annually. . . more >>
Former Indiana State Sycamore basketball star Robert Heaton, who made the game winning shot sending the Sycamores to the Final Four, is running for the District 43 seat in Indiana House of Representatives.
Heaton, 51, a 1980 graduate from Indiana State and owner of a local insurance company called Heaton Financial Service. He is best known as the “Miracle Man” for his game winning shots against New Mexico State and Arkansas. Heaton’s half court shot against New Mexico State in 1979 season sent the game into overtime as the Sycamores eventually won and kept their unblemished record alive. . . more >>
Remember in the 1960s, when it was chic to question authority and challenge the establishment?
The free speech movement at UC Berkeley, which witnessed the rise of a mass student mobilization and the first legal takeover of a campus building made headlines at the time and sparked a hippie counterculture. Today, these aging hippies have changed their mantra to “accept authority without question. ”Alan Charles Kors, founder of the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, said, “Such codes are a moral, educational and legal scandal in American higher education. A nation that does not educate in liberty will not preserve it and will not even know when it is lost. . . more >>
