Graduation Week With Common Sense

The United States Air Force Academy graduation ceremony at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs in May 2013. (Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
What happens on campus doesn’t stay on campus.
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There is no more reliable cliché in the news business than “if it bleeds it leads.” But the rule of thumb that was just as dependable, if not quite as catchy, in the years I spent at legacy newspapers is this one: campus craziness sells. It sold to readers of The Wall Street Journal just as reliably as it did to readers of The New York Times. If conserv…
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