In just the past week, Brubaker has gotten calls from his buddies at colleges in Wyoming, Washington and Texas, and all the calls have pretty much gone the same way.
"They're asking me, 'What's going on at your university?'" Brubaker said. "They're asking if the school is really that liberal."
The news of UNC's summer reading program has been splashed across the pages of some of the most highly read newspapers and broadcast on the major television networks.
But the national coverage of UNC's choice of Michael Sells' "Approaching the Qur'
