Anthony Dent
Class of 2012
Essay for the Pope Center for Higher Education. November 27, 2011.
As a life-long conservative, I saw universities as battlegrounds of ideas even before I came to UNC.
Eager to spar with the Bush-bashing, tree-hugging, atheistic liberals whom I imagined inhabiting campus, I immediately threw myself into conservative activism and debate.
Fighting for ideological balance has certainly been an uphill fight, and I’ve suffered my share of antagonism. Of course, the real Carolina was not quite the ideological war zone of my high school imagination.
Anthony Dent '12 interviewed before a speech by Karl Rove Steps of Memorial Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
