If the section of the bill repealing the medical-use exemption is deleted when House and Senate versions are reconciled, the result will be a sensible and appropriate response to the protests.
This law ONLY applies to people wearing mask while committing crimes. Even Cooper's DHHS noted, "removal of the explicit exception does not open anyone up to prosecution."
Woody White and others in the UNC System are moving to end DEI in the state's public universities. As a former NAACP leader, I believe it's the right move.
The NCInnovation board of directors met last week to discuss and vote on issues ranging from the selection of a tax and audit accounting firm, to whether or not lobbying expenditures were properly reported on tax forms. They also discussed the search for an investment manager who would oversee the nonprofit’s taxpayer-funded endowment and if...
The UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees agreed to redirect $2.3 million originally allocated for DEI initiatives towards public safety. This is positive news; although, one wouldn’t know it from reading the mainstream media.
Saturday’s commencement ceremony at UNC-Chapel Hill could come with disruptions as the Students for Justice Palestine plans to demonstrate on campus to “take back the university.”
In recent weeks, pro-Palestinian protests have roiled college campuses nationwide. In many instances, protests led to encampments, which in some instances resulted in takeovers of university grounds, facilities, and buildings. Thus far, North Carolina’s colleges and universities have been spared the worst effects of the protests and rioting, thanks in no small part to quick...
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...
Several years ago, I attended a North Carolina State Bar Dinner, where Judge Allison Duncan, then active on the US Fourth Circuit, spoke on diversity and equality of opportunity. She argued that diversity of viewpoint is needed for a strong academic system and that diversity of immutable characteristics does not equate to a vigorous intellectual ecosystem. This...
Congressman David Rouzer, NC-07, is a co-sponsor, along with Congressman Dan Meuser, R-PA, on legislation introduced by Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne, R-TX, that would deport illegal aliens who participate in criminal activity during pro-terrorism or antisemitic demonstrations, including those currently occupying and vandalizing university campuses across the country.
Victims of the October 7 terror attacks in Israel are suing National Students for Justice (NSJP) in Palestine, the AJP Educational Foundation, Inc. also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) saying they are operating "as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas."
