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I suspect conservatives have complained about liberalism on college campuses since UNC was founded in 1789.
Published: Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 @ 11:56 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a proud history of supporting free speech and expression. One of the proudest moments in its history - and justifiably so - is how the entire university community fought the infamous Speaker Ban Law of the 1960s
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 9:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Both HB2 and the Charlotte ordinance that preceded it were solutions in search of a problem. We've yet to see certifiable evidence that Charlotte had significant or quantifiable transgender discrimination problems. It was political pandering to a liberal support base
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2016 @ 11:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In the last few years, the rights of students in North Carolina universities have received some significant new protections
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 6:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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You’ve heard the spin the media, the progressives and the professors have put on the closing of the UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, but let’s step back and look at what this is and isn’t about.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 10:04 am
By: Tom Campbell
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It's particularly disgusting to see our state's drive-by media try to compare the UNC Board of Governors' decision to shut down a scam on the Chapel Hill campus to McCarthyism or the state's one-time speaker ban.
Published: Tuesday, February 24th, 2015 @ 12:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Steve Logan, former East Carolina University head football coach, recently remarked that things don't usually turn out well for head coaches. The same is often true for anyone who serves "at the pleasure" of someone or some group. UNC President Tom Ross is the latest example.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 2:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Stroll through a college campus, and you expect to hear debate about a range of good, bad, and even crazy ideas.
Published: Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 @ 4:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During The Cold War, leftists rolled their eyes at us when we talked of the horrors perpetrated by The Communist Party. Fast forward to today.
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 11:08 am
By: Brant Clifton
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There is a UNC professor whose controversial opinion articles have gotten the "campus roiling," to use a phrase from The News & Observer's editorialist Jim Jenkins, so much so that "it's clear" they want him gone.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 3:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Among recent headlines, the student government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill deliberately cut the budget of College Republicans to prevent the group from bringing two speakers to campus, Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich and filmmaker Ann McElhinney, whom student government...
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 6:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I worked on Capitol Hill for the late Senator Jesse Helms during his early-90s campaign to defund The National Endowment For The Arts.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 9:37 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Fifty years ago, The University of North Carolina passed a Speaker Ban to clamp down on Marxist interlopers trying to poison the young skulls of mush matriculating in Chapel Hill.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 8:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Speaker Ban After 50 Years -- The legislature at its Worst? That's the headline slapped on top of the latest missive from Rob Christensen, McClatchy-Raleigh's "Mr. Politics."
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 9:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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