Opinion
Will the Governor’s Seat Be Open in 2004?
Rumors swirl that Easley's job is not what he expected, and he might not run for re-election.
Opinion
When Government Programs Work
Two government programs that show signs of achieving their objectives.
Opinion
Leftists blast report urging colleges to teach American history and principles
A report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni has the establishment-left wing of academe up in arms. "Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It" builds on the fact that "academe is the only sector of American society that is distinctly divided in its response" to the terrorist attacks on America to reiterate (not to mention, underscore) the organization's call for trustees, donors and alumni to seek change in their institutions of higher education.
Opinion
Harsh critic of UNC-Chapel Hill to speak in Chapel Hill, Raleigh
Leftist-radical-turned-conservative-activist David Horowitz will be speaking in Raleigh and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday, Nov. 28. Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has been sharply critical of leftists in higher education prior to and following Sept. 11, and he has been especially critical of UNC-CH.
Opinion
Former Black Panther leader regales Duke University students
As America's war on terrorists abroad continues successfully, a former head of a domestic terrorist organization spoke at Duke University to an apparently receptive crowd.
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Students fight back against anti-war sentiment on campus
North Carolina university students are beginning to join the intellectual battle on campuses over the U.S. war on terrorism.
Opinion
N.C. State Panelists Suggest Oil, Racism Motivate U.S. War on Terrorism
The U.S. war on terrorism was roundly decried Tuesday by the speakers at a North Carolina State University roundtable discussion on the war. The discussion was sponsored by the N.C. State Women's Center, the Academic Study of Religion Club and Engineers Without Borders.
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UNCW professor threatened by student for replying to her anti-U.S. email
A UNC-Wilmington student is threatening a lawsuit against a professor because she was offended by his response to her mass email, sent also to him, in which she claimed the war on terrorism was an "intensification of US imperialist repression already in progress."
Opinion
Combined teach-in will focus on the fight against ‘fundamentalisms’
“Women Fight Fundamentalisms: Before and After September 11th” will be the topic of a two-day “teach-in” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. The teach-in will build upon the national consensus forged on Sept. 11 against the extremist, militant interpretation of Islam wielded by the terrorist al-Qu’eda organization, Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban. That aberration of Islam is particularly vicious in its treatment of women. The topic of the teach-in is not, however, limited to the fight against that “fundamentalist” version of Islam by women. As the title clearly indicates, the topic is women fighting “fundamentalisms” (plural).
Opinion
Universities return to business as usual, fighting racism, sexism, homophobia
A month has past since the attacks on New York and Washington. Although most in the campus community are, like nearly all Americans, horrified by the attacks and wanting some semblance of justice brought to the perpetrators, a very vocal minority on university campuses is intermittently making new proclamations of U.S. culpability in terrorism. (A forum sponsored by the University Scholars Program at North Carolina State University featuring N.C. State professor of plant pathology Bob Bruck was the latest example of the latter.)
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Prank at UNC-Chapel Hill leads to calls for homosexual student center
Someone used the Campus Calendar section of The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to place a fake announcement of a gay pride rally later in the week. The prank set into motion a ludicrous, only-at-Chapel-Hill chain of events.
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A week after the attacks, speakers at UNC-Chapel Hill ‘teach-in’ compare U.S. with Nazis, terrorists
There were plenty of comparisons made to Nazis and other totalitarian regimes at the University of North Carolina's "teach-in" held in response to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but the focus of the comparisons wasn't Osama bin Laden or terrorists in general, but the United States of America.
