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This Oct. 4, 2016 file photo shows the Trimble Tech High School building in Fort Worth, Texas. Trophies, photos and architecture hint of 100 years at Fort Worth’s Trimble Tech High School building. Another sign that the Fort Worth campus is filled with memories: Multiple generations of Trimble Tech graduates _ whether the Class of 1959 or the upcoming Class of 2017 _ show their pride when they talk about the school. (Rodger Mallison /Star-Telegram via AP)
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Illustration on the decline of reading among boys by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Students gather on the west mall to confront the Young Conservatives of Texas student organization over a controversial bake sale Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, on The University of Texas campus in Austin. The Young Conservatives of Texas chapter at the University of Texas-Austin sparked the protest with an affirmative action bake sale. The club encouraged students to “to buy a cookie from us and talk about the disastrous policy that is affirmative action.” (Joshua Guerra/The Daily Texan via AP)
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Donald Parish Jr., right, confronts Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Dewayne Perry over a controversial bake sale on The University of Texas campus Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in Austin, Texas. The Young Conservatives of Texas chapter at the University of Texas-Austin sparked the protest with an affirmative action bake sale. The club encouraged students to “to buy a cookie from us and talk about the disastrous policy that is affirmative action.” (Joshua Guerra/The Daily Texan via AP)
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Dozens of teens reportedly descended upon a Philadelphia school bus and assaulted students and the driver, just three days after a "flash mob" randomly attacked students at nearby Temple University. (WTXF)
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In this Oct. 22, 2016 photo, Chris Baldwin smiles before the start of the game between the University of Michigan verses the University of Illinois at Michigan Stadium, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Baldwin was made famous after being shown on television reacting to the last second win by Michigan State over Michigan in 2015. Michigan plays Michigan State Saturday, Oct. 29. (David Guralnick /Detroit News via AP)
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In this May 3, 2006, file photo, University of Iowa students walk past the Old Capitol building in Iowa City, Iowa a few days before the building was to open to the public for the first time since being heavily damaged in a fire on Nov. 20, 2001. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) **FILE**
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The University of Iowa is investigating a series of fliers criticizing "anti-white propaganda," which were discovered near campus centers dedicated to Latino, Native American, African American and LGBTQ communities. (KCRG)
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Students arrive at Union Middle School, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in Sandy, Utah. Dozens of students at the middle school in a Salt Lake City suburb witnessed a shooting Tuesday, Oct. 25, in which a 16-year-old boy was critically wounded by another teenager during an argument, police said. Police arrested a 14-year-old who they believe was the shooter. The victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital and is in critical condition. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Kalani Matthews, 17, center, sits with friends across the street from Union Middle School in Sandy, Utah, after a shooting Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. Matthews said it was his brother that was injured in the shooting. A 16-year-old boy was critically injured after being shot outside Union Middle School by a 14-year-old, who is a student at the middle school, police said. The shooting occurred about 3 p.m. when two teenage boys got into an argument on a field north of the school, said Sandy police Sgt. Dean Carriger.The victim was transported by ambulance in critical condition to Intermountain Medical Center, where he went into surgery. The 14-year-old suspect is in custody. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Kalani Matthews, 17, right, gets a hug from Dusti Rowland, 16, across the street from Union Middle School in Sandy, Utah, after a shooting Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. Matthews said it was his brother that was injured in the shooting. A 16-year-old boy was critically injured after being shot outside Union Middle School by a 14-year-old, who is a student at the middle school, police said. The shooting occurred about 3 p.m. when two teenage boys got into an argument on a field north of the school, said Sandy police Sgt. Dean Carriger.The shooting occurred about 3 p.m. when two teenage boys got into an argument on a field north of the school, said Sandy police Sgt. Dean Carriger. The victim was transported by ambulance in critical condition to Intermountain Medical Center, where he went into surgery. The 14-year-old suspect is in custody. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Mason Lewis, 14, is comforted by a passerby after learning that his friend was shot outside Union Middle School in Sandy, Utah, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. A 16-year-old boy was shot twice and critically wounded by another teenager Tuesday afternoon when the two got into argument outside the middle school in a Salt Lake City suburb, authorities said. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Illustration on the results of defeating the Islamic State by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Duke freshman Jayson Tatum acknowledges the crowd during the school's annual college basketball Countdown to Craziness event Saturday Oct. 22 2016, in Durham, N.C. (Bernard Thomas/The Herald-Sun via AP)
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Michael Rectenwald, a clinical assistant professor of liberal studies at New York University, created an undercover Twitter account so he could blast political correctness and campus "safe space" culture without fear of reprisal from students or "social justice warriors." (Twitter/@antipcnyuprof)
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In this Oct. 21, 2016 photo, students arrive at Falmouth High School in Falmouth, Maine. The town of Falmouth is one of several municipalities around the country that has canceled school on Election Day to avoid placing children at risk in case the heated rhetoric spills into confrontations or even violence at the polling places. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2007 file photo, students walk near a statue of George Washington on campus at the University of Washington in Seattle. The University of Washington is getting $210 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help build a new facility to advance efforts to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. The donation from the largest private foundation in the world is the largest single gift to the university. The contribution was announced Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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The remains of a car that carried four college students and was involved in a fiery crash as a result of being struck head-on while driving on the northbound side of Interstate 495 sit at Marc's Towing company, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, in Wareham, Mass. Five people, including the four college students, died early Monday in a fiery crash caused by a woman driving the wrong way on a Massachusetts highway, state police said. (Faith Ninivaggi/The Boston Herald via AP)
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In this June 1, 2011, file photo, people walk through Sproul Plaza near the Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif. The university suspended a class on Sept. 13, 2016, amid complaints that it shared anti-Semitic viewpoints and was designed to indoctrinate students against Israel. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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Derrick Johnson, left, president of the Mississippi NAACP, left, talks to Stacey Payton, center, with Hollis Payton, behind her, parents of a high school student, in front of the Stone County Courthouse in Wiggins, Miss., Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. Johnson is demanding a federal investigation after the parents said four white students put a noose around their son's neck at school. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
