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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]State-level politicians have a lot more say over how the colleges in NC work than they do in VA and MD. If you think the state legislature there is doing a great job, I guess you'd be happy about that...but you probably wouldn't be in the majority if that was your thinking.[/quote]

This would worry me. And I believe it to be true. While a decade ago you might have thought that the state legislature would have no impact on one student at a big state university...I think COVID has showed us otherwise.

They are really into basketball, I can attest to that (as someone who is not into sports, but happened to visit campus on a game weekend once).

There are wonderful research organizations all around it.

I got into one of their very strong grad programs, and considered going despite offers from Hopkins and Harvard. There were certain questions that they could not answer up front, however (such as what advisor I would be working with and how much funding I would get), so I eliminated it from the running. They said that they could not commit funds each year until the state legislature had set their budget. That may be the case, but of course I went with a school that could promise me a set amount of funding.  [/quote]

The UNC Board of Governors also gave a $2.5 million trust to the Sons of Confederate Veterans along with the Silent Sam statue. The weird thing...the Sons of Confederate Veterans filed a lawsuit and [i]immediately[/i] settled for the $2.5 million. I mean, come on! That's shady. [/quote]

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