August 2, 2002
Getting Religion
Some students will do anything to get out of a reading assignment. Last week, three freshmen at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sued the institution over a book about the Koran in a required summer-reading program.
The critics argue that assigning the book -- Approaching the Qur'án: The Early Revelations (White Cloud Press, 1999), by Michael Sells, a professor of religion at Haverford College -- inappropriately blurs the church-state separation required
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