Tuesday, student protestors assembled outside Highsmith Student Union, demanding the University of North Carolina at Asheville keep adjunct professors in light of recent budget cut announcements. “And let me be clear. The plan was to fire them all today, according to our insider sources,” said Marcos Martinez, an 18-year-old drama student and Vice President of.
U.S. Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) is calling on UNC Asheville to cancel an event Friday that the Republican called "woke, hateful and anti-Semitic."
Henderson County (Nov 3, 2023) - U.S. Congressman Chuck Edwards on Thursday condemned the “Until We’re All Free” event funded by taxpayer dollars scheduled for noon Friday on the campus of the University of North Carolina Asheville and urged the university to cancel the event that he said is designed to normalize and espouse hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric.
UNC Asheville released a statement Friday morning, Nov. 3, less than 24 hours after Rep. Chuck Edwards called on the university to cancel what he claimed was an