Here’s a funny snippet from today’s Daily Tar Heel:

Members of the College Republicans and UNC Young Democrats intently watched as professors discussed issues of the presidential election in a debate Monday in Gerrard Hall.

The debate, organized by both student groups, fostered talks by professors from UNC and Duke University on foreign and domestic policy. …

Timothy McKeown, a UNC political science professor, was chosen by the Young Democrats to argue for Sen. John Kerry’s campaign.

The College Republicans could not find a UNC professor to represent Bush’s administration, so Peter Feaver, a political science professor at Duke University, participated in the debate.

“I thought it was a sad commentary on higher education,” Feaver said, disappointed that no UNC professors offered to represent Republican issues.

Although it was originally planned that two professors would debate domestic policy, a Republican representative was not present, so UNC economic Professor Ralph Byrns side-stepped from left to right and debated the economic policies of both candidates. …