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In 1795, the great state of North Carolina opened the first public institution of higher learning.

In 2008, we may become the first state to take away access to post-secondary education from an entire class of people.

Yesterday, Attorney General Roy Cooper's office issued an advisory statement that says our state's community colleges and universities should close their doors to the children of undocumented immigrants.

The AG's statement is based on the same kind of moral reasoning that southern states used to withhold public education from blacks and women. It uses a tenuous interpretation of federal law to exercise a state's rights argument, knowing full well that this state will not give undocumented immigrants the right to an education.

Roy, who?

Beyond pure greed and something akin to blood-lust, it's never been clear to me how college sports became the monstrous machine they are today. Even 35 years ago at the US Naval Academy, when we had to march onto football fields for the annual orgy of the Army-Navy game, I felt a deep sense of misplaced priorities, heavily laden by the stench of too much testosterone.

That ugly tradition continues today at UNC, where in a stunning display of poor judgment, Dick Baddour has just granted a losing head football coach a raise of nearly $300,000 per year. The N&O properly takes issue with the decision.

There are so many things going on, it will be hard to choose. If the weather holds then you should march downtown or to Polk Place for a march. Myself, I'll be volunteering at the John Edwards office on Saturday and on Daddy duty the rest of the weekend, as my wife has a term paper due. This is also a good weekend to hit the Carrboro farmer's market, so I'll put a link in there for that. Time to plant the tomatoes yet?

By Mark West
Larry Little is an avid basketball fan in general, and a huge UNC Tarheel fan in particular. He has videos of UNC games dating from 1979. In October Of last year, Larry got a rare opportunity to visit the hallowed halls of UNCs home court, the Dean Smith center. I was with Larry on that occasion, and I witnessed the excitement of his thrill of a lifetime. Larry was as giddy as kid on Christmas morning. The pictures on the walls in the hallway of the Dean Smith center came to life for him. I, not being as big of a fan, was Larry’s classroom and he was the instructor.

He tells me about this guy and that guy. “This is Michael Jordan” he says, he played on the 1982 championship team. This one played in 1987, here’s Julius Peppers who now plays football for the Carolina Panthers, “He played both basketball and football for UNC in 2000” Larry says, and “UNC went to the final 4 that year, what a great athlete Julius Peppers is” he says. In the trophy room of the Dean Smith center is where Larry took over one hundred pictures of the history of UNC basketball, including pictures of the bust of the great Dean Smith himself.

We are the red and white from NC State and we know we are the best.
One hand behind our back we'll take on all the rest.

Go to Hell Carolina
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I think we all know how this ended. I just hope Hillsborough St is still standing in the morning.

Congratulations to UNC Women's Soccer Team on their 18th National title out of 21 attempts in the 25th year of the tournament.

Go Heels!

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It was a cold and early Saturday in early November. The streets were empty, but the parking lot of the Planetarium was filling up at 8:55am. Why? Because Saturday early voting was about to begin. Yep, there was a line out around the statue of James Polk waiting to vote early. Which raises the question, why?



Originally posted at CountryCrats.