No net ground won or lost in the latest Culture War battles
The latest skirmishes in the Culture War have resulted in a wash, according to experts reading the field journal of the decades-long battle, Lingua Franca.
Articles by Jon Sanders
Assessing women’s need for an on-campus masseusse
UNCW has completed its “needs assessment” for a proposed women’s center there.
UNC students protest proposed budget cuts
In early May, more than 2,000 college students marched from N.C. State University to and through the State Legislative Building to protest a proposed reduction in state appropriations to schools in the University of North Carolina system.
NC research institutions valiantly celebrate female genitalia
Fully in keeping with the idea of the university as a place to identify real social problems and address them honestly, all three research institutions in North Carolina hosted performances of Eve Ensler’s play “The Vagina Monologues” and taught students to find empowerment in reciting an awkward Latinate term despite rumors of the fearsome social dictate against doing so.
Responsibility in learning a hallmark of textbook critic
N.C. State Visiting Professor John L. Hubisz works to rid inaccuracies from textbooks, specifically middle-school science textbooks.
N.C. State’s new idea of diversity: a ‘conflict of ideas’
The diversity that N.C. State’s Rupert Nacoste seeks is one that understands that a university is a place for the conflict of ideas.
The ‘unthinkable’ and Molly Broad
In a contest of crises, the floods of Floyd won out over the underfunding of UNC. Or so it would appear. Certainly the state faced a crisis in the hurricane’s wake. But is the situation facing UNC right now a crisis?
Broad’s Field Guide to Chancellor-Spotting
Good morning, nature lovers. Today we’re searching for Academicus timidus, also known as the Elusive Executive Candidate or E.E.C. You probably call it the Eek.
The Executive Summary of N.C. State’s Diversity Initiative
The following is how the Diversity Initiative’s executive summary read as of March 1998.
N.C. State’s feelings-based Diversity Policy
A university proposes radically restructuring education as a symbolic gesture.