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  • UNC’s Leadership Crisis Exposes Academia’s Feckless Mindset

    01/21/2019 5:32:31 AM PST · by reaganaut1 · 12 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | January 21, 2019 | Jay Schalin
    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...
  • Silent Sam’s Last Stand?

    08/22/2018 3:45:38 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 30 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | August 22, 2018 | Jay Schalin
    Silent Sam, the statue of a weary, stoic Confederate Army foot soldier, came crashing down Monday night, pulled down from his post at the edge of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus by a howling mob of protesters. But a lot more fell than a Progressive-era statue of a Confederate soldier. Another brick in the wall that separates civilization and barbarism was dislodged. Another small part of the social contract that calls on us to settle our differences through dialogue and consensus disappeared. Another thin thread in the rule of law was severed. Even those who feel that Silent Sam was a...