Opinion
Bring back merit: UNC System should weigh applicant test scores
By letting students withhold low test scores (students don’t withhold high scores), UNC is essentially ignoring a sign of poor performance.
Opinion
Elites failing iconic American institutions
Critical American institutions are crumbing before our eyes because the intellectual elites charged with caring for those institutions are failing on a grand scale. In academia, business, and government people in critical leadership positions are failing the most basic responsibilities and across the spectrum. Students, stockholders, customers, and citizens are suffering failure, as is the culture...
Opinion
Can we disagree more constructively?
If you maintain a diversified portfolio of politically active friends — and you really ought to if you want to perceive the world as it is rather than as you imagine it to be — it’s essential to learn how best to handle passionate disagreements about controversial issues. When the US Supreme Court recently struck...
Opinion
Carolina is a high-cost university
The U.S. Department of Education has started taking applications from former university students hoping to force taxpayers to pay off their loans. President Joe Biden’s loan-transfer diktat is one of the worst policies of modern times: hugely expensive, patently illegal, and grossly unfair to the millions of borrowers who worked hard and sacrificed much to...
Opinion
We need more school boards
Friction between parents and school boards has illustrated yet another argument for creating more districts: it may ensure a better alignment of values.
News
Double-bunked GOP Sens. Barrett and Krawiec face Antinozzi in new District 31
Republican primary: Senate District 31 (formerly Forsyth and Yadkin counties; now covers all of Davie County, and a large portion of Forsyth County). Dan Barrett (Appointed to fill unexpired term August 2017). Education: Wake Forest University, bachelor’s and law degrees. Occupation: Small business and employment law attorney. Career highlights: Seven years as a Davie County...
Opinion
Suppression Claim Takes Hit
In a rational world, the experience of actual voters in 2014 would settle the question of whether "voter suppression" is underway. Unfortunately, we do not reside there.
News
Election Turnout Appears To Refute Suppression Claims
RALEIGH — More than 2.9 million North Carolinians went to the polls during the 10 days of early voting and election day on Nov. 4, more than any other midterm election in the state’s history. That’s 44 percent of North Carolinians registered to vote. It’s also 38 percent of North Carolina’s voting age population of nearly 7.7 million — higher than the 37.4 percent in 2010.
News
Universities and Businesses Join in Aquaculture
RALEIGH — North Carolina's fish farming industry remains fairly small — generating about $52 million in revenues in 2010, about $2 million less than the previous year. For comparison, the state’s agriculture industry as a whole (aquaculture included) accounted for $9.2 billion in 2009.
Opinion
No. 785: What Do Students Have to Learn to Graduate From College?
Colleges today market their degrees and package education as a product for easy consumption.
Opinion
No. 784: Miami Goes Too Far With ‘Just Win, Baby’
The University of Miami overlooks criminal behavior of athletes and jeopardizes the safety of the student body.
Opinion
No. 132: Living It Up: Socially Redeeming But Economically Lacking
• James B. Twitchell: Living It Up: Our Love Affair With Luxury; Columbia University Press; 2002; 309 pp; $29.95
