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Appeals Court rules UNC, NCSU students can pursue COVID-related breach-of-contract suits

A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled that students at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University can move forward with breach-of-contract lawsuits against their schools. The students say the schools should have refunded fees paid for services that were unavailable during COVID-related shutdowns.

CJ Staff
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UNC System schools, private universities begin transition to mask-optional policies

Gov. Roy Cooper has recommended schools and local governments transition from mask mandates to a mask-optional policies, and counties and towns across North Carolina are heeding the governor. With the increasing adoption of the mask-optional policy, University of North Carolina System President Peter Hans decided to follow the trend and published a memo on Feb....

Lauri Salovaara
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N.C. moving quickly to help college players capitalize on name, image

Twelve states now allow student-athletes, some in high school, to start cashing in on their name, image, and likeness. The move comes after the NCAA approved interim rules while it awaits federal legislation on the issue. North Carolina is among the states allowing players to monetize their NIL, and top college programs are solidifying plans...

Dallas Woodhouse
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Carolina Journal’s Dan Way discusses NCSU researchers silenced for solar views

Dan Way, Carolina Journal associate editor, discusses two N.C. State University researchers who say the university has silenced them because of their views about solar energy’s impact. Way offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

Dan Way
Opinion

In higher ed’s amenities arms race, bigger is just bigger

Testifying before the U.S. Senate in 2013, University of Wisconsin professor Sara Goldrick-Rab described college campuses as “glorified summer camps.” She said administrators were “engaging in an arms race to have the most impressive bells and whistles.” In North Carolina, the push to make every campus amenity bigger, better, and more impressive than the next...

Jenna A. Robinson

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Divestiture Issue Returns to Campus

RALEIGH — Movements are underway on college campuses nationwide to cause them to “divest” in holdings that support causes promoters find odious. The campaigns hearken to those in the 1980s where colleges refused to do business with South Africa because of its policy of apartheid. The most well-known current campaign is the one seeking universities to divest in Israel, but there is another campaign under way to have universities divest in terror. Both are having an impact on North Carolina campuses.

Jon Sanders
Opinion

Meanwhile, free expression at NC State is ‘too much’

Chancellor Marye Anne Fox of North Carolina State University issued a statement on tolerance this week. Published in Technician, N.C. State's official student newspaper, Fox wrote that "Several students have told me about highly offensive, hurtful and disrespectful graffiti that appeared on the wall of our Free Expression Tunnel on Monday night." Three sentences later she wrote, "The offensive graffiti has been removed, and I have asked our Campus Police to investigate this incident."

Jon Sanders
Opinion

Racial hypersensitivity poisons the campus climate

N.C. State has gone to great lengths to gauge its "racial climate." But how worthwhile is this activity, really? A voluntary demonstration ostensibly designed to list incidents of racial injustices at N.C. State produced only four, all of which were really examples of racial hypersensitivity, only two of which related to N.C. State, and one of which was from two decades prior.

Jon Sanders
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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Call. 30: Centennial Campus Grows With or Without State Help / Bizzare Courses Found at Nation’s Most Prestigious Schools

The General Assembly’s failure to approve the University of North Carolina’s multi-billion-dollar capital-spending proposal has led many people to believe that N.C. State’s Centennial Campus won't be able to rapidly expand. But evidence suggests that the steady growth of the campus will likely continue. Courses on bizarre themes are being offered at some of America’s most prestigious schools and North Carolina institutions are not immune, according to a recent report by U.S. News and World Report.