arguing in a lawsuit brought against the
University that only the N.C. General
Assembly could approve the University’s
sale. On top of everything else, Caldwell
had to deal with the outrages and influence
of the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1900, Alexander McIver, former state
superintendent of public instruction, wrote
a letter to former University President
Kemp Battle (class of 1849) in which he
defended Caldwell and the 1868 trustees:
“They took care of the property and
turned it over to their successors under the
Constitutional Amendment, redeemed,
regenerated, and disenthralled, as Governor
Caldwell assured your father [William H.
Battle] in the Convention of 1873 he
would do. The great fact to be emphasized
is: that good will toward the University
from all parties is what restored the Uni-
versity in 1875.”
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Ron Holland ’ 67
Arden
Holland wrote a master’s thesis in the late
1970s on Gov. Caldwell at N.C. State University while working for the N.C. Division of
Archives and History.
Energy Costs and Coal:
An Alternative View
I am writing in response to a piece in
the July/August issue: “We will stop using
coal on campus by 2020.”
The article proclaims that the chancel-
lor’s decision was bold. Politically correct,
in step with the misguided and discredited
global warming hysteria, but bold — not
hardly.
The Sierra Club, James Hansen and
environmental pressure groups are cheering
this move and appear to be dictating
unsound and absurd policy to the chancellor. That’s fine, but I wonder how they will
feel when the lights go off in Chapel Hill
or feel the pain of increased tuition due to
ballooning electricity costs.
David Berkett, a former grid control
engineer who has a lifetime’s experience in
electricity supply throughout the U.K.,
warned that “a growing obsession with
global warming and ‘ renewable’ sources
threatens the satiability of our supply,” and he
claimed that renewable energy expectations
are nothing more than “dangerous illusions”
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1.800.422.3212
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A college preparatory boarding and day school
founded in 1900 for boys in grades 8 through 12.
CHRIST SCHOOL
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
An Episcopal School for Boys
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