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LETTER: UNC should be lauded for marker

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Staff

I just returned home from a dedication on Carolina’s campus of a marker commemorating the student/faculty/community action that resulted in the overturning of a state law that banned certain viewpoints from being freely aired on the UNC campus. These events took place in the mid-1960s. What moved me was the sight of those aging student radicals, gray-haired, seated in their chairs, gathered in one place. That in itself is rare, but rarer still for them to be meeting on a ground where a clear and righteous victory was had and to have that victory recognized. The university is to be lauded for clearly asserting, in granite, the absolute requirement of freedom of expression.

Tuck Schneider
Efland

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