On Monday, I came across something in the Raleigh News & Observer that read like a letter to the editor from the angry uncle you try to avoid talking with at family reunions. But then I realized it was just Gene Nichol. Nichol, a law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, was irate about last week’s U.S....
Nearly two dozen N.C. law professors have signed on to two new friend-of-the-court briefs in a high-profile N.C. Supreme Court case involving voter ID. Both briefs filed Tuesday urge the state Supreme Court to remove two Republican justices from hearing the case. Thirteen professors have signed onto a brief as N.C. professors of constitutional law....
While there are several things that can be said about UNC professor Gene Nichol’s article on critical race theory, there is one, in particular, I find intellectually dishonest: the descriptive claim that “in North Carolina twice as many blacks as whites live in poverty.” The issue with the assertion is that it is incorrect. In...
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina’s governing body may provoke national backlash if it bars the UNC Center for Civil Rights from entering into lawsuits, said UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt. Folt expressed her concerns July 28 in a five-page letter to Anna Nelson, chair of the board’s educational planning, policies, and programs...
Activist professors at UNC are the villains of tales they don’t hear and the butts of jokes they don’t understand.
That private funds rather than taxes have been funding the UNC poverty center lately is certainly welcome news. But surely that can’t be the end of the matter.
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