UNC-Chapel Hill’s Student Congress is planning to vote on a resolution condemning the proposal.

Also, The Daily Tar Heel published a “Viewpoint” debate over the proposal, featuring four columns on the matter. One is an article I wrote, although the DTH apparently forgot whom they asked to write for them, because they gave the byline to Shannon Blosser while keeping my contact information at the end.

The others are (I suppose I should say presumably) by:

? geology Prof. Altha Cravey, who argues that the plan is tainted because it’s driven by money and not faculty interest or student demand

? graduate student Morgan Johnson, who argues that “politics is not divorced from education” and that the Pope family’s politics don’t belong at UNC-CH, in large part because the Pope Center writes critically of politics in UNC-CH classrooms

? History Dept. chairman Lloyd Kramer, who argues that despite the Pope Center’s “hostility” and the Pope Foundation’s politics (and inherent taint), the program’s benefits would outweigh them