Top 10 Craziest College Campus Stories of 2017

There were many crazy moments to choose from in 2017 as universities became free speech battlegrounds.

Between protests that involved students carrying baseball bats around campus and the interrogation of a teaching assistant who simply showed a debate clip from public television, 2017 may have been one of the most tumultuous years for college campuses in recent memory.

Here are our picks for the craziest stories of the year:

10. A University of Pennsylvania teaching assistant brags on Twitter about prioritizing students based on race and gender.

University of Pennsylvania teaching assistant Stephanie McKellop explained in October how her pedagogical tactic of “progressive stacking” works in practice: “I will always call on my Black women students first. Other POC get second tier priority. WW [white women] come next. And, if I have to, white men.”

The University of Pennsylvania recently announced that McKellop is being relieved of her teaching duties.

9. York University professor argues that big stomachs are “glorious.”

Allyson Mitchell, a professor at York University’s School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, argued in a journal article published in 2017 that “fat queer art” can liberate obese individuals from the social perception that they are slow and lazy.

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