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Koch buys ability to interfere with academic freedom, twirls mustache

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)5/10/2011 6:39:43 am PDT

re: #13 RogueOne


If someone donates a large amount of money and wants it spent in a specific manner then the school has the option of taking it or not.

Everyone understands that.


Soros started his own accredited school CEU and has given tens of millions of dollars to a variety of universities (including $50 million to Oxford) to focus on his particular brand of economics.

Please demonstrate where Soros retained hiring/firing approval for the school he helped fund at Oxford. Since he didn’t, you can’t.

He gave the money to the Martin School because it was already focusing on his brand of economics. That’s the way that it’s supposed to work; you donate money to a school or institution that is doing work you approve of. The reason why Koch did it this way is that you can’t really find any economic departments who believe what he does, because it’s nutso. Even the Chicago School thinks the Koch brand of libertarianism is whackjob.

The more varied POV’s encountered by students the better.

Wow, that’s stupid.

No, students should encounter points of view that are wrong. Holocaust revisionism, creationism, and Austrian economics don’t really have any place in a serious academic setting. There are literally an infinite number of points of view that it’s either pointless or damaging to expose students to.