Gov. Pat McCrory's comments on liberal arts elicit firestorm of debate [View all]

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Posted: Friday, February 1, 2013 8:20 am
John Frank/Winston-Salem Journal

... “If you want to take gender studies that’s fine, go to a private school and take it,” McCrory told host Bill Bennett, a former U.S. Secretary of Education. “But I don’t want to subsidize that if that’s not going to get someone a job.

The sharp language elicited a fierce outcry from students and faculty at UNC and across the country. But McCrory stayed away from such comments Thursday. At an event earlier in the day, he bristled when asked about his gender studies remark.

“I never mentioned liberal arts in a negative way,” McCrory told reporters ...

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