Subdued Beginnings
The times are somber and the commencement speakers are serious.
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How UNC Spends Its Money
We report on how much the university system spends on actual teaching as opposed to non-student expenditures.
Chancellor Thorp’s Installation Address Offers Insights into His Thinking
Chancellor has one promising idea and two dead-ends in his speech
Online Education Emerging, with UNC in the Lead
Long held in low regard, Web-based courses are becoming mainstream.
Caveat emptor, suckers
House Bill 1183 would give the children of illegal immigrants the privilege of attending UNC schools and community colleges in N.C. for in-state tuition. Looks like yet another talking point used to sell us on the $3.1 billion bond referendum for higher education in 2000 could turn out to be a big fat whopper.
Franklin & Granted: On (Not) Getting By at UNC
2002: “How many small cuts do you take before you cry out in pain?”
1992: “The state’s flagship university is being nickel-and-dimed to death.”
UNC faculty really did seek openness on the Edwards deal
The letter, for which we at the Pope Center cannot vouch and which could be an expedient hoax, begins: “WE THE UNDERSIGNED FACULTY are writing to express our concerns about the ongoing secret negotiations between high-level university administrators and John Edwards regarding the ‘poverty’ center.”
Edwards’ new gig:
The Dionne article anticipated last week’s big Edwards news. He now has an issue: the alleviation of poverty. Dionne doesn’t write that Edwards has no idea about how to accomplish it; instead, as he graciously puts it, Edwards is “planning to set up a center to study ways to alleviate poverty.” That would be UNC’s new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, of which Edwards will be director.
In defense of mockery as criticism
Democritus, the “laughing philosopher,” was described by Laurence Sterne as “trying all the powers of irony and laughter to reclaim” the town of Abdera, “the vilest and most profligate town of Thrace.” Meanwhile, some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members complain about the mockery of the Pope Center.
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere in the classroom, may be conservative
Remember H.L. Mencken’s famous jest about Puritanism? “The haunting fear that someone, somewhere is happy.” Apply it to F.H. Buckley’s observations that “The modern Puritan devotes himself to political rather than religious duties” and that this Puritanism “is particularly pronounced in the academy.” Does that not explain this spectacle of self-righteous UNC professors carping about mockery and fearing political infidels in the classroom?