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Last month, an administrator from UNC-Chapel Hill wrote to the university’s branch of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship that the organization’s charter violates the university’s nondiscrimination policy...
...UNC-Chapel Hill administration’s demands drew criticism from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a Philadelphia-based group that focuses on free-speech issues at colleges and universities throughout the country...
Thor L. Halvorssen, chief executive officer of FIRE, wrote in a letter last week to UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James C. Moeser that the university’s demand on InterVarsity “denies its members the foundational rights of freedom of association, freedom of expression, and the free exercise of religion...
...UNC-Chapel Hill obviously may not forbid a religious student organization from making discriminations based on issues of faith,” the letter continued. “We shall make a national issue of the First Amendment at UNC-Chapel Hill...
...April, though, UNC-Chapel Hill did so anyway, telling the Times that the incentive early decision created to “game the system” made it counterproductive. Despite strong adherents at Columbia, Princeton and elsewhere, early decision was becoming a dirty phrase...