LAZENBY: Campus controversies: Getting to basic

UNC’s new School of Civic Life and Leadership’s goal to teach critical thinking and free expression seems quaint, even charming, given today’s campus sensibilities.

In the words of a fondly remembered editor in Atlanta, “It’s just basic.” He would infuse this with just enough menacing Southern drawl to terrorize me and other staff reporters based in large Southeast cities to fix fast whatever problem he had with this or that draft story and get it to the wires, lickety-split