Mark G. Rodin: UNC protesters won’t help
Regarding the Jan. 27 news article “4 arrested in raucous protest”: UNC Board of Governors chairman Lou Bissette is correct: Those who disrupt meetings to protest the appointment of Margaret Spellings are disrespectful and do not help their goal of progressive change for the UNC System.
As Bissette noted in the story, voters elected the Republican majority in our state’s General Assembly, and it will only be through elections that those “who elected this board” will be removed from office. Power of control belongs to the victors in elections.
Civil disobedience such as this protest influences the electorate at large to keep the current Republican majority who hired Spellings in power following November’s general elections.
Mark G. Rodin
Durham
This story was originally published February 14, 2016 at 12:22 PM with the headline "Mark G. Rodin: UNC protesters won’t help."