UNC-CH’s BofT spent $35 MILLION to DEFEND race-based admissions ???
According to an official UNC-CH alumni publication, THAT’S exactly what 
happened:
[…] In a separate issue, BOT Vice Chair John Preyer ’91 questioned Carolina’s effort to defend itself against the lawsuit, which was first filed in 2014. “I think that it’s instructive … to reflect on what’s happened with the Supreme Court case where, for nine years, we’ve spent in the neighborhood of $35 million to lose a high-profile case, in which we were found to have been in violation of the 14th Amendment,” he said.“I want everybody to think about it because this is a moment of humility. I know that a lot of people thought we were fighting a good fight, and it needed to be fought, but as it turns out we were doing something we actually shouldn’t have been doing.”
Preyer questioned whether the University would have been better off spending the $35 million on providing reduced or free tuition “as opposed to trying to litigate a position that ultimately was found to be in violation of the law.”
After the ruling, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz announced UNC will provide free tuition for students whose household income is below $80,000.[…]
2014 was the halfway point of Pat McCrory’s gubernatorial term. He and the Republican majorities on Jones Street had control over UNC AND its board appointments. After 2016, we still had GOP control on Jones Street. How was this $35 million dollar quixotic clusterf*** allowed to happen?
Once again, it’s demonstrated how little of an ROI we’re getting for our Republican registrations and votes.
This revelation is mind-boggling. How could our Republican=appointed UNC trustees have been this stupid and this careless! $35 million to defend something the GOP says it does not believe in! Do Phil Berger and Tim Moore now realize just how awful their UNC trustee appointments have been? No wonder our voting base is losing faith in the party leadership. What will the GOP legislature and party leadership learn from this debacle? If past is prologue, probably nothing.
When Tillis was speaker, he used to sell those positions for campaign contributions. Has anyone checked out the appointees and their political contributions? Selling the positions might be one explanation of the very poor caliber of appointees to these positions. It is time to fill these positions with principled conservatives, not elitist money bags. This ought to be a consideration in the race for the new House Speaker. John Bell is another Tillis or Moore and I cannot see a bit of change from him.
They should have settled that case, which would have given us a positive result on policy while saving the state millions of dollars wasted to defend race hustling.
Why not appoint some solidly conservative former legislators to these university boards like Mike Speciale, Larry Pittman, and Bill Cook? If they are business execs, care should be taken that the business they work in is not the slightest bit woke.
Thank you for the honorable mention, but there is no way the RINO crooks who run the General Assembly would ever consider Speciale or me. Not sure about Cook, but the same may apply to him. Michael and I always stood up for the Lord and the rights of our citizens. Thom Tillis, Tim Moore, and their crowd never cared for that, and I took them on directly. Of course, they didn’t like they. They never wanted me there, and they tried very hard to get rid of me the whole time I was there. I think the only thing they would choose me for would be a one way ticket to Mars.
I meant to say, “they didn’t like that,” not “they didn’t like they.”
If I were still there, I would vote for Mark Brody for Speaker, if he would run for it, or Keith Kidwell.
Two very solid principled conservatives and either one would make a fine Speaker.
How on earth can even RINO Republicans appointed to the UNC trustee board justify spending $35 million on liberal Democrat law firms to defend race-based admissions? How can our GOP legislators defend this scandal? Why is there nothing but silence from Jones Street?
Not a one of these brainless woke twits should be reappointed when their terms expire. This betrayal should be enough to send them packing.
We only have a very short time span to reverse the liberal control of the UNC system before it is too late and NC has been turned deep dark blue. I’m still not sure the GOP establishment in NC understands just how critical the situation is and how little time is left.
I suspect the GOPe just does not care about the magnitude of this situation.
What I would like to see in key disciplines such as history, political science, sociology, etc. is to establish philosophical affirmative action, where faculties could not be less than one third liberal or one third conservative. This would provide for the only type of diversity that really matters in a university, the diversity of ideas. To start out, all or almost all new hires would need to be conservatives to achieve some balance on faculties. And, heck, the way the left is trying to cram the alphabet soup of “woke” – DEI, CRT, and ESG – into even such disciplines as math, this would probably be needed for ALL departments.
Since the GOP took control of the UNC system in 2010, the campuses have become far more leftist and the faculties even more liberal. It was also the Republicans who took down Silent Sam after protests by BLM and Antifa thugs. Don’t count on these wimps to do anything except go free to basketball games.