In a TIME profile of new White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, a predecessor in that post offers some interesting advice:

As chief of staff, Emanuel will have to act as a traffic cop, referee and gatekeeper, deciding which decisions go to the President and which don’t and guarding against end runs to the Oval Office. That’s not exactly a formula for making or keeping friends. “You say no most of the time and let the President say yes,” says Erskine Bowles, who held the chief of staff job and worked alongside Emanuel in the Clinton White House. “Rahm will always have the backbone to say no.”

Let?s hope UNC President Bowles has someone in his administration who can ?just say no? to any forthcoming ideas designed to stifle free speech on UNC campuses.