N.C. State’s new idea of diversity: a ‘conflict of ideas’

…will develop lung cancer are 14 to 1.” Based on Lerner and Nagai’s research, the CEO website developed an online “admissions predictor” (www.ceousa.org/html/ncst2.html) for students interested in enrolling at N.C….


Seriously, professor, did you really say that the Holocaust was “the greatest hoax of all?”

…2005 1:10 PM To: Christensen, Jane T Subject: Re: “Jane Christensen: Holocaust Denial and 9/11 Investigation” Is this account accurate: http://cryptogon.com/2005_03_13_blogarchive.html#111111555338323748 Did you write “I rather think the ‘Holocaust’ denial…


UNC’s five-step process to carp about budget ‘cuts’

…a John Locke Foundation Spotlight research paper (online at www.johnlocke.org/spotlights/2003063078.html), the legislature granted small increases to UNC’s budget for 2003-04 and 2004-05, for a total of $54 million in 2004-05…


On Senator Kerry’s Higher Education Proposals

…States.” (Available online at http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ewp_03htm.) Here’s their conclusion, “By far the most important reason black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in college is the failure of the K-12 education system…


An Open Letter to UNC-Chapel Hill Alumni

…a report on our university’s general education curriculum. You can access it at http://www.popecenter.org/inquiry_papers/article.html?id=2920. One of its coauthors earned her doctorate at our university, and she and her coauthor conclude…


A Nudge by the Government?

…will bring it about will be taken up again on October 6, 2009, at a joint“http://popecenter.org/events/event.html?id=739″TARGET=”_blank”>Cato/Pope Center Forum. Kevin Carey, George Leef, Robert Martin, and Neal McCluskey are featured speakers….


The Existential Crisis of the American Music School

…giving way in to skills like Tweeting and blundering through some rudimentary HTML. And perhaps they are—that’s something else for us to worry about.  For now, however, I can confidently…


Combined teach-in will focus on the fight against fundamentalism

…Understanding) and the Progressive Students, Staff and Faculty of UNC-Chapel Hill. Information about the teach-in can be found online at the site for the Progressive Faculty Network of UNC-CH: http://www.unc.edu/depts/pfn/teachins.html….