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The UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Executive Committee held a special meeting Monday to discuss the Board of Trustees’ failure to grant tenure to acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.  The committee unanimously passed a resolution asking the board to immediately take up the matter of tenure for Hannah-Jones. “The Faculty Executive Committee strongly urges the Board of Trustees to uphold the long tradition of respect for recommendations from faculty bodies in hiring and tenure cases,” the committee wrote. “And to take up the matter of tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones immediately, and to ex...

UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz. Citing reporting from the News & Observer, the Daily Tar Heel and Policy Watch, the AAUP chapter referenced recent revelations that UNC-Chapel Hill Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Clayton Somers was directly involved in negotiating the Silent Sam settlement with the NC Sons of Confederate Veterans. The new information, disclosed as part of a settlement with UNC-Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel newspaper, contradicted Guskiewicz’s previous assurances to the campus community that he and the campus administration were not involved in the deal. �...

That will make them stop? >> i think they're going to keep going with their partisan attacks, and i would say, chris, that they're entitled to have their own political point of view, but they can't make up their own facts. and it's very clear that the secretary of state did not sign those cables, and i would say to the chairman isa that he should take down from the republican website the statement that she did. it's completely false. and the "washington post" in their fact finder column called this a completely false statement, they called it a whopper and gave chairman isa four pinocchios. bu...

Now, and congress, your representatives are listening. joining me tonight, congressman maloney, and eric muller, who has been tracking the byzantine-manufactured benghazi scandal on the right. congresswoman, i guess i'll begin with you. did you learn anything today at the hearing? there was some very compelling, emotional testimony from the deputy chief about what happened that night, the story of what happened that night is harrowing and dramatic and upsetting for a variety of reasons, not least of which, four americans ended up dead, the notion of people being trapped in a safe building that...

Low historic levels of attacks at targets. it's unclear that embassy security on the whole in a macrosense is deficient. and the thing, eric, i couldn't help but notice today, to the extent there is a latest plot point in the scandal, it comes down to second-guessing a call presumably made by the africom commander as to whether to send out a special ops team at the moment he made the call not to send it. i don't believe the general is above second-guessing, but i do have a little humility myself about whether i'm the right person to make that call nine months later in the midst of what is a ch...