Last month, Cape Fear Community College personnel and New Hanover County Sheriff’s deputies escorted CFCC alumnus and Army veteran Quentin Proulx out of a Board of Trustees meeting.
Proulx, who graduated from the college in 2022, had twice requested in writing to speak to the board about CFCC administrators’ order earlier this year to change the theater students’ set design for Euripides’ play, Bacchae. According to the college’s bylaws, there is a mechanism to speak to the trustees, but officials claim Proulx’s topic wasn’t on their agenda.
Nonetheless, when CFCC President Jim Morton opened the floor for questions in September, Proulx thought he had an opening to speak — but after making comments, CFCC Chair Lanny Wilson gaveled him and deployed sheriff’s deputies to remove him…