a conservative ... at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invokes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.

I wouldn't know about that. All I know about US university politics was gathered from sources like The Strawberry Statement or Zabriskie Point, which cannot be accused of being recent, complete, unbiased or generally relevant.
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