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Silent Sam ‘strike’ by instructors crosses a line, BOG’s Kotis says

At least 79 teacher assistants and instructors at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are threatening to withhold grades unless their demands in the Silent Sam controversy are met, local activists say. A proposal by the university’s Board of Trustees to rehouse Silent Sam in a $5.3 million historical center has been met with protests...

Lindsay Marchello
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Bissette, Board of Governors spar over ‘political’ op-ed

CHAPEL HILL — Members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Jan. 26 tangled with their chairman, Lou Bissette, over a recent op-ed calling the body “too political.” In a Charlotte Observer opinion piece published Dec. 26 titled, “UNC Board of Governors Chair: We need to stay out of politics,” Bissette wrote...

Kari Travis

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