LR FOLLOW-UP!

From Eric Dondero, (FSU Grad.):

At TampaBay.com, the St. Pete Times editorial board blasts the idea of Charles Koch's "Libertarian" money going to FSU. This morning, "Koch gift too costly for Florida State":

Florida State University's economics department needs to reconsider its relationship with billionaire Charles G. Koch, who pledged $1.5 million to the school as long as professors hired with the money hew to Koch's Libertarian philosophy. The arrangement reeks of pandering and undermines academic freedom, the cornerstone of American higher education.

The eds go on to decry the lack of vigorous debate in the classroom, if such a policy becomes the norm.

students also have to know their professor is engaged in intellectually honest discourse without fear that if they happen to deviate from their benefactor's ideologically guidelines they could lose their jobs. And students need be confident their grades are not predicated on becoming acolytes of a donor's political beliefs.

But of course, that doesn't apply to state entities pushing a pro-statist agenda.