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No excuses for media mistreatment of UNC-CH salary study

A recent study of faculty salaries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has revealed a significant salary gap between white male faculty and minority faculty. Now that this pay gap has been proven, it’s time for the university to address this obvious pay bias. The next step is hard but clear: UNC-CH must take corrective action to pay white males more. The good news is at least they’re now getting paid more than females.

Jon Sanders
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Election Preview: US Senate

In this topsy-turvy political season, confident predictions are impossible, especially for the campaign to succeed U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. But for what it’s worth, if Republican Elizabeth Dole’s (likely) margin of victory over Democrat Erskine Bowles exceeds 6 points, there could be some coattails down the ballot.

John Hood

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Study Finds Tuition Low, Higher-Education Appropriations High in N.C.

According to the most recent data, taxpayers in North Carolina pay the fourth-highest per-pupil amount in the nation to subsidize public-college students in their state. Also, N.C. students attending the state's community colleges or public universities pay the second-lowest amounts in tuition and fees in the nation in either category of institution.

Jon Sanders
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No. 107: Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: Rough Seas for Government Lovers

Sometimes you can do more damage to a bad idea with humor and satire than with a great scholarly treatise. That’s the working premise of Ken Schoolland’s The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible. This book is a wonderful takeoff on Jonathan Swift’s political satire Gulliver’s Travels and it romps all over the big, dumb ideas of socialism, egalitarianism, and democracy. Written in 1981, the book is now in its fourth printing and has been translated into 21 languages. It’s wickedly good fun with a serious purpose.

George Leef
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