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UNC-Chapel Hill event with Candace Owens draws overflow crowd

Turning Point USA’s spring college tour kicked off this week with a stop at UNC-Chapel Hill featuring conservative commentator Candace Owens. Over 600 attendees completely filled the event space Wednesday night and many more registrants were barred from entering due to the limited capacity.

Brianna Kraemer
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Supreme Court rulings against Harvard, UNC unlikely to remove race completely from admissions

The U.S. Supreme Court could rule soon against the use of race in admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. If so, it’s unlikely to mean an end to the use of race in college admissions. That’s the key point in a new Manhattan Institute report, “After Affirmative Action, Meritocracy?” Author Robert VerBruggen, a Manhattan Institute fellow, discusses his work.

Mitch Kokai
Opinion

Lessons from the UNC tenure debacle

When I was asked to join the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005, I never dreamt of asking for tenure, even though I was a national, if not global, thought leader in a major and growing field of study. I was hired to create and teach the MBA courses on corporate governance. I had a...

Michael Jacobs
Opinion

Attack on Carolina Review a reminder toxic campus culture must end

While the government can’t do a lot of things well, one primary task it must improve upon is securing inherent rights. Unfortunately, many public universities across this nation are finding it easier to restrict speech, while empowering mobs to shout down any dissent from woke-minded narratives. One of the latest examples of the attack on...

Ray Nothstine

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CJ politics week in review, Nov. 4-Nov.8 

Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review: Cooper veto: Gov. Roy Cooper issued his 10th veto of the year Wednesday, Nov. 6. The governor struck down Senate Bill 250,...

Lindsay Marchello
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UNC facing tough questions after fall of Silent Sam

After a historic protest that ended in the illegal takedown of Silent Sam, a Confederate statue at UNC-Chapel Hill, the university faces tough inquiries about campus security and law enforcement. A striking question — about how a handful of people tore down a weighty statue under watch of city and university police — so far...

Kari Travis
Opinion

In the wake of Silent Sam

I studied history at a college with a Confederate soldier monument during the biggest progressive social upheaval since the 1960’s. I know just about every single way that old boy can be interpreted. What those idealistic college kids and older antagonizers recently did in Chapel Hill will not fix racism, redeem the school of historical...

Will Rierson
Opinion

Another UNC-Chapel Hill official gets a sweet send-off

The news last fall of sweetheart deals to exiting administrators of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill placed the institution under unsettling scrutiny of its priorities. Those deals amounted to $520,000 plus travel expenses to two former vice chancellors, Susan H. Ehringhaus and Susan T. Kitchen. They came to light after other UNC-CH officials had spent months making the university’s case against any more budget cuts affecting them, on the basis that the university had nowhere left to cut.

Jon Sanders
Opinion

Suggestions for a diversity of provocation at UNC-Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser recently told the National Press Club in Washington that the university would continue to pick "provocative" books for its infamous Summer Reading Program. No one asked, "Provocative to whom?"

Jon Sanders