IT’S BEEN SAID that it is important to know one’s enemies. By requiring freshmen to read parts of the Koran this year, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, may be trying to do just that. But though this year’s selection for the summer reading program may be well intended, some students and others with interests in UNC are trying to stop the program from going forward.

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