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The News & Observer of Raleigh on University of North Carolina Board of Governors criticizing school officials over the recent controversy about a Confederate memorial statue at the Chapel Hill campus: Now 15 members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors have criticized in a letter UNC system President Margaret Spellings, Board of Governors Chair Lou Bissette and by implication UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt over the recent controversy about the Silent Sam Confederate memorial statue on the Chapel Hill campus.
The gathering Tuesday night at the university focused on a statue known as "silent... . Police arrest a man during a protest at a Confederate monument at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017.
A sample ballot is seen in a photo illustration, as early voting for the 2016 general elections began in North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. October 20, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake A social justice publication for teenagers and young people is the latest media outlet to fall for a racist hoax article calling for white men to have their right to vote cut off.
I read this tragic story while sitting before my computer in my air-conditioned home. I had a cup of coffee, a comfortable chair and a roof over my head.
It was during the 1988 presidential election. Like many conservative and libertarian students of the day, my friends and I at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill were looking for a leader to follow in the footsteps of the president we all revered, Ronald Reagan.