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.
Politicization
Higher education’s fundamental mission is the discovery, preservation, and transmission of truth. This endeavor requires unfettered freedom of expression and conscience. The following articles expose illiberal tendencies on American campuses and highlight ways to increase the diversity of the ideas being taught, debated, and discussed on campus.
Former Black Panther leader decries “fascist” U.S. at Duke
Dec 1, 2001 ·
Jon Sanders
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
Nov 23, 2001 ·
Martin Center Staff
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.
UNCW prof threatened with a lawsuit for responding to student’s e-mail
Nov 15, 2001 ·
Jon Sanders
A UNC-Wilmington student is threatening a lawsuit against a professor because she was offended by his response to her mass email, sent also to him, in which she claimed the war on terrorism was an “intensification of US imperialist repression already in progress.”
Feminist teach-in links “fundamentalism” in the Middle East to (natch) the U.S.
“Women Fight Fundamentalisms: Before and After September 11th” was the topic of a two-day “teach-in” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Discussion was not, however, limited to the fight against that “fundamentalist” version of Islam. As the title clearly indicates, the topic was women fighting “fundamentalisms” (plural). And one speaker discussed similarities between President George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden.
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.
Students fight back against anti-war sentiment on campus
Nov 9, 2001 ·
Martin Center Staff
North Carolina university students are beginning to join the intellectual battle on campuses over the U.S. war on terrorism.
N.C. State Panelists Suggest Oil, Racism Motivate U.S. War on Terrorism
Nov 2, 2001 ·
Martin Center Staff
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.
UNCW professor threatened by student for replying to her anti-U.S. email
Oct 26, 2001 ·
Martin Center Staff
A UNC-Wilmington student is threatening a lawsuit against a professor because she was offended by his response to her mass email, sent also to him, in which she claimed the war on terrorism was an “intensification of US imperialist repression already in progress.”
A week after the attacks, speakers at UNC-Chapel Hill
Sep 21, 2001 ·
Martin Center Staff
There were plenty of comparisons made to Nazis and other totalitarian regimes at the University of North Carolina’s “teach-in” held in response to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but the focus of the comparisons wasn’t Osama bin Laden or terrorists in general, but the United States of America.