Bad-mouthing UNC, especially the way in which Mr. O’Donnell attempted, is just poor form and it won’t get him, or anyone else, anywhere. Devaluing their “liberal arts degrees,” citing abstract polls on which State ranked higher, seemingly ignoring those polls on which UNC-CH ranked higher, more or less blaming graduates of their J-school for State’s slide in basketball prominence and creating obscure hypotheses of “What if UNC had a bad last 20 years,” accomplishes nothing positive.

I unfortunately do not have the space to address all of his painfully reactionary and poorly-supported claims. In any setting, one should be careful to not appear like a fussy kindergartner, angrily and sloppily attempting to defame a classmate. Believe me, feeling perpetually compelled to react to seemingly-objectionable extra-university banter hampers your college experience. Enjoy our university and don’t try to denigrate anyone else. Sure, at times the tiresome UNC rhetoric can be annoying. So what?  We’re adults; we should all behave that way.

What’s worse than an earful of Carolina Blue natter is seeing your fellow State student insult the “worthless” liberal arts. It’s shameful that a college-aged student would say that sort of thing. Our University doesn’t suffer from their “hypocrisy;” our University suffers when our students are distracted by the need to abjectly and fussily dwell on this perceived “hypocrisy.” Perhaps a healthy dose of the liberal arts could open Mr. O’Donnell’s eyes up just a tad.

Thomas Anderson

senior, political science