UNC Book Controversy Abates

RALEIGH — Since 2002, controversy and UNC-Chapel Hill’s summer reading program for incoming freshmen have gone hand in hand. The university’s book choice for 2002, Approaching the Qur’an, prompted an outcry among some Christian activists. Last year’s selection of the book Nickled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America fanned the controversy as conservative said the book was unscholarly, Marxist, and amounted to liberal indoctrination at a public university. The selection committee this year sought to avoid the outcry of the past years by opening the selection process, and this year’s choice is a book that looks at the experiences of a group of cadets at West Point.