Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Naming U. of C. research center after Milton Friedman has faculty split

The Chicago Tribune reports:
Few names are more associated with the University of Chicago than Milton Friedman's.

But that's exactly the problem, say some faculty who want to put the brakes on a plan to name a new research center after the Nobel Prize-winning economist.

In a letter to U. of C. President Robert Zimmer, 101 professors—about 8 percent of the university's full-time faculty—said they feared that having a center named after the conservative, free-market economist could "reinforce among the public a perception that the university's faculty lacks intellectual and ideological diversity."
As you can see,believers in free markets and property rights dominate no university faculties:including U. of C.Diversity in academia means having no libertarians,evangelical Christians,and registered Republicans around.