The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Making of a Political 'Circus'

When two students invited the filmmaker Michael Moore to a public college in Utah, neighbors roared their disapproval

By JOHN GRAVOIS

Just outside Orem, Utah, on a scrubby, suburban stretch of Interstate 15 that runs south from Salt Lake City, a billboard overlooking the freeway reads, "Michael Moore. High in cholesterol. Low in truth." Not far beyond it is the turnoff for...

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