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Conservative Activists Bring 'Academic Freak Show' to Memorial Hall

Bravo to the campus conservative activists!

Rather than challenge the notion that liberals have them in an ideological head lock in Chapel Hill, they bring an academic freak show like Davey Horowitz to campus.

By outsourcing their qualms with the University community to www.front

pagemag.com, they have created a debate about free speech on campus and little more.

What these nefarious conservative activists don't seem to understand is that when a group or community or person is offended they feel the need to speak out. I would remind them of the number of e-mails they sent me after I wrote a piece on a College Republican meeting they did not find flattering.

Their "proud presentation" of Horowitz is the same sort of gimmick that was behind the abortion photos being put on Polk Place: no discussion, just shouting. In the future I would challenge the conservative activist(s) on campus to hold more responsible discussions of the issues ... perhaps in the form of a teach-in.

William McKinney
Junior
History and Political Science

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