Budget adjustment proposal released
Higher education spending in North Carolina would increase by nearly $112 million, according to budget figures presented during a Joint Appropriations Committee meeting May 11 at the Legislative Office Building.
Albright, Powell highlight N.C.graduation speakers
With the ongoing War on Terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, graduates at some area colleges will hear, first hand, from two individuals who have been involved in policy decisions regarding Iraq and the Middle East.
Forum discusses academic freedom
North Carolina is not the only state where campus bias is a concern. That was evident during a forum held Saturday at Robert “Whit” Whitfield’s campaign headquarters for the 4th District House of Representatives seat. That seat is currently held by Rep. David Price, D-N.C.
UNC gays define ‘perversion’: Codes that protect white, heterosexual males, too
RALEIGH— Homosexual activists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are circulating a petition to stop “a perversion of anti-discrimination codes.” The perversion? Such codes might actually be used to protect a “white, heterosexual, [C]hristian male,” too. Egad!
Forget ‘Economic Diversity,’ Let’s Hit the Books Instead
Teaching students takes a backseat to universities’ new emphasis on “economic diversity.”
Efforts to stifle Carolina Students for Life aborted
The pro-life UNC-CH student group Carolina Students for Life are finally included in the Carolina Women’s Center’s web site and programming. However, the group was excluded for the second year from Women’s Week at the university.
The Great Pope Center Conspiracy Laid Bare for All the World to See
Call off the dogs, leftist media — your relentless interrogation has broken us. We admit it. It really is just a big conspiracy. We’re prepared to spill all. This is our confession.
Thought Police Steal a Victory from UNC-Chapel Hill
Free speech had already carried the day when a UNC-Chapel Hill instructor attacked a student by name in a classwide email. So why get the feds involved?
Report cites campus ignorance of constitutional protection of religious liberty
College students and administrators don’t know that the First Amendment protects religious liberty, according to survey results published in a report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
Comedy, tragedy and diversity — here at the base of the slope
The diversity movement was supposed to promote social harmony, but instead it has furthered racialist thinking, heightened identity-group balkanization, increased resentment, and nurtured a preposterous touchiness and sensitivity to perceived slights. It has also fostered a new generation ever seeking newer ways to divide people. The new diversity extremists are now protesting each other when they fail to recognize the most recently identified groups of the exponentially expanding diversity pantheon. It’s a practice you might call More-Sensitive-Than-Thou.