[Clara Lou]

If they're anything like they were in middle school and high school, they won't read it at all. If some prof actually works the book into class assignments, there'll be a run at the bookstore. They'll read excerpts.
"We want to show students that Carolina is about reading, thinking and writing -- not just about getting the best basketball tickets," he said.
Where do people come up with fertilizer like this? This is educator-speak. (I'm an educator. I recognize it. Let me hasten to say I never speak educator-speak. Leaves you with bad breath.)

[Tom D.]

"We want to show students that Carolina is about reading, thinking and writing -- not just about getting the best basketball tickets," he said.

It's obvious after last year's 8-20 (or so) record that no one is going to UNC to get the best basketball tickets. At least for now, the best basketball tickets in the area are about 12 miles down the road in Durham.

Of course the Dukie professors are not any less liberal than what you find in Chapel Hill.