Sept. 11 figures in campus discussions on health, discrimination, and racism
The terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent U.S. war on terrorism were the subjects of a recent teach-in at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and were also referenced by North Carolina State University students during two recent campus events focusing on an entirely different subject, the racial climate.
Inspired by Sept. 11, some new college courses dismissed as ‘psychobabble’
New courses inspired by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have been developed on college campuses nationwide. Most deal matter-of-factly with the issues, but some have come under criticism for being “gadfly courses” and “politically correct pseudo-courses.”
Bill would study giving illegal immigrants access to in-state tuition rates
Some illegal immigrants may now pay resident tuition to attend public universities in California, thanks to legislation signed last year by Gov. Gray Davis and a vote this week by the University of California Board of Regents. In North Carolina, a bill before the Senate would create a commission to study doing the same thing here.
UNC-Wilmington professor at center of free-speech fight
Controversy continues to swirl around what the University of North Carolina at Wilmington did to a professor for chiding a student’s mass-distributed e-mail as “bad speech.”
UNCW denies chilling free speech after inspecting professor
Controversy continues to swirl around what the University of North Carolina at Wilmington did to a professor for chiding a student’s mass-distributed e-mail as “bad speech.” As well as around what UNCW didn’t do.
UNC-Chapel Hill mulls opening business school in Qatar
As the liberation of Afghanistan continues unabated and well ahead of schedule, and as Hamas takes credit for another bloody round of suicide-bomb attacks on civilians and teenagers in Israel, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill mulls a proposal to open a business school in the Emirate of Qatar.
Changes (and rumors of changes) to racial preferences nationwide
The face of racial preferences, under the misnomer “affirmative action,” is changing in several places nationwide.
Former Black Panther leader decries “fascist” U.S. at Duke
A former head of a domestic terrorist organization spoke at Duke University on Nov. 15 to an apparently receptive crowd.
Harsh critic of UNC-Chapel Hill to speak in Chapel Hill, Raleigh
Leftist-radical-turned-conservative-activist David Horowitz will be speaking in Raleigh and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday, Nov. 28. Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has been sharply critical of leftists in higher education prior to and following Sept. 11, and he has been especially critical of UNC-CH.
N.C. State panelists suggest oil and racism are what really motivate the U.S. war on terrorism
The U.S. war on terrorism was roundly decried Tuesday by the speakers at a North Carolina State University roundtable discussion on the war. The discussion was sponsored by the N.C. State Women’s Center, the Academic Study of Religion Club and Engineers Without Borders.