October 16, 2008

At U. of Chicago, Calm Discussion in Hot Campaign Over Friedman Center

By David Glenn

More than 200 faculty members at the University of Chicago gathered at a faculty senate meeting on Wednesday to debate the university’s nascent Milton Friedman Institute, an economics-research center in which the university plans to invest $200-million.

Since the project was announced, in May, certain faculty members have objected that the center will be inappropriately politicized, that it will displace worthier university investments, and that it might give special

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