Turn on the 6 o’clock news, and you’ll hear the stories from families whose homes were destroyed by a tornado in the Midwest. Change the channel and see emaciated victims of the latest famine in Africa. You don’t even have to leave North Carolina to see human suffering: one in four children under the age of five goes to bed hungry every night in our state.
Do you know who Jimmie Johnson is? If you do, then chances are you aren’t a cultural elite, according to the quiz inspired by Charles Murray’s recent book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.”
Partisanship and ideology only cause gridlock. Or so the popular argument goes. At the end of the day, the political process often results in gridlock because there are very real differences in outlook among the American people.
Just like the phantom lane violation that may have cost UNC–Asheville the game against Syracuse, asserting a right to education during the recent debate over tuition was just the wrong call.
The real issue at stake is whether or not civil society ought to be subservient to the all-encompassing state.
When you meet someone new at college, the invariable question — “What’s your major” — is generally followed up by asking, “So, what are you going to do with that?” That’s the lens through which we view our time spent in college: preparing us for a specific career. We are, after all, “minds on a mission.”
