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No. 676: UNCW Observes Ludacris Standard

This past semester several items were removed, as soon they appeared, from the student union at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Among them: antiwar flyers labeling President Bush a “bully,” depicting Lady Liberty impaling a dove by its rectum on a sword, and having the U.S. flag being produced in the exhaust fumes of B-1 bombers; magazines containing a photograph of men engaging in anal sex; a large sign advertising “The Vagina Monologues” calling for all [offensive slang for vaginas] to “Unite!”; and flyers in support of the war in Iraq.

Jon Sanders
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Another Dud for UNC’s Summer Reading Program

Last year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's summer reading program managed to stir up controversy and even litigation by choosing Michael Sells' book Approaching the Qur'an as the book incoming freshmen were expected to read. The problem with that book, which overlooks Islam's propensities toward intolerance and violence, was not that it was promoting religion, but that it was a waste of the students' time. This year's choice is no better, and arguably it's worse. Incoming freshmen are assigned to read Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.

George Leef

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No. 673: Affirmative Action: My Grading Policy

Dear UNC-Wilmington Students: For years, my well-known opposition to “affirmative action” has been a source of great controversy across our campus, particularly among UNCW faculty. Many have assumed that my position on this topic has been a function of personal prejudice or “insensitivity” to the needs of various “disenfranchised” groups on campus and in society in general. In reality, my opposition to affirmative action has been based on personal experience.

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