Posted on 01/21/2019 5:32:31 AM PST by reaganaut1
Carol Folt’s tenure as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill came to an abrupt end last week, thanks to her failure to grasp political realities and her defiant support of the school’s radical social justice crowd. She challenged the system’s governing body, the Board of Governors, by having the pedestal of the Civil War memorial known as “Silent Sam” removed. In response, the Governors gave her a couple of weeks to clean out her desk instead of letting her finish the spring semester as she intended.
It should hardly surprise anybody that Folt ran afoul of the university system’s ultimate authority to promote the social justice agenda. After all, she has always sided with the radical diversity agenda against more prudent interests; there is ample evidence from her days as provost and interim president at Dartmouth College as well as her time at UNC.
Once the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam was pulled down by a howling mob of protesters in August 2018, Folt’s end was inevitable. It was obvious that the mob’s action had official imprimatur, with police from the campus and the city of Chapel Hill “standing down” while the bolts connecting the statue to its pedestal were removed, the ropes were attached, and the statue was yanked to the ground. Emails showed that Chapel Hill’s police indeed had orders to turn away from the protest once the actual vandalism commenced.
One question that remains is with whom the decision to stand down originated. Standard procedure is for the city police to follow the lead of the university police during campus incidents.
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What would our revolutionary Founders do?
Let’s look it up:
They would paint a big letter “T” on her house, for traitor.
This is no different than the Taliban blowing up centuries old monuments because the were “not Islamic”.....I remember watching in disbelief while the Taliban shelled irreplaceable carved-stone historical relics....and we allow this in our country, in our “more civilized” society.
As a UNC alum this article is spot on!
Never should have hired an Ivy Leaguer to lead a southern University
So are they going to be putting the statue back up in its former location?
WHy did they even give her a couple of weeks? She should have been sent packing immediately.
Wow. Read the whole article. Very damming. And I still don’t understand how UNC got away with the academic fraud involving the football and basketball teams for decades got NO punishment for the school. Oh wait, the hoops team is a huge cash cow for the NCAA...but that couldn’t be it.
They should. It’s protected by US law. Kick out any students involved and prosecute all mobsters to the fullest extent of the law.
.....right.......but maybe she has a messy office and needed the time....smirk........
Would have liked to see them move her office to the ladies room.
Exactly
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