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Conservative Groups Inspire Campus Conflicts

By AAN Staff
april 5, 2004  03:42 pm
Conservative Groups Inspire Campus Conflicts
After a student made harsh remarks about homosexuals in a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill class, lecturer Elyse Crystall apologized to her students by e-mail. Now the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is looking into whether Crystall's message, which referred to "white heterosexual Christian male" privilege, constitutes harassment. Independent Weekly writer Barbara Solow explores this and other campus incidents in which, she writes, "a well-financed conservative machine" battles what it considers "liberal orthodoxy" in higher education.
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