Phi Beta Cons A Few Links of Note By Jesse Saffron October 27, 2014 9:03 PM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Flipboard Share on WhatsApp Email this article Joining a growing number of schools experimenting with alternative admissions standards, the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana plans to use personality tests to determine if applicants have a “locus of control.” That is, are they confident in their ability to succeed? Jim Windham peruses the National Association of Scholars’s latest survey of books assigned to entering freshmen. Many of the books are meant to inspire political activism of the leftist variety. “Bring down the banners. Return the trophies. Refund those gains that were ill-gotten. Revoke those degrees obtained through academic fraud. Replace all those coaches and administrators who were complicit or willfully ignorant during nearly two decades of sweeping, systemic cheating at the University of North Carolina,” says Tim Sullivan.