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College For Ayn Rand Devotees Closes Due to Financial Aid Problems

Started by geekdad, December 09, 2010, 09:43:35 AM

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geekdad

December 09, 2010, 09:43:35 AM
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Cautionary-Tale-of-a/125452/

QuoteThat fall day in 2007 seemed an auspicious start for a college with only five professors and 10 students. But as the year wore on, the students, professors, and staff members became convinced that it was a sign of something else entirely: an elaborate facade.

Founders College, in rural South Boston, Va., was pitched as a sort of Great Books college for devotees of Ayn Rand. And while the for-profit college was never accredited, it operated with authorization from Virginia to issue degrees.

lol, take note of the last sentence.
Making you think you're crazy is a billion dollar industry.
If they could sell sanity in a bottle
They'd be charging for compressed air,
And marketing healthcare.

Cain

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December 09, 2010, 01:12:52 PM
If that is the same College I heard of, one of the professors there didn't even realize it was meant to be a specifically Objectivist college until his first day of work there.  To say he was severely mislead about the nature of the college would be an understatement.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

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December 09, 2010, 05:04:33 PM
Ahahahaha!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

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December 09, 2010, 05:06:17 PM
Sort of like "Liberty University" for Rand tards.   :lulz:
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December 09, 2010, 07:32:58 PM
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Dean

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December 10, 2010, 06:20:12 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 09, 2010, 05:06:17 PM
Sort of like "Liberty University" for Rand tards.   :lulz:

I hadn't heard of liberty university before, but reading the article on wiki made me think of bob jones university. Here is something crazy (and strengthening the opinion of one of my "going to be a preacher" friends that Democrats are all damned.

QuoteMark Hine sent an e-mail to the president of LU's College Democrats, Brian O'nill Diaz, revoking the university's recognition of the club. "The Democratic Party platform is contrary to the mission of Liberty University and to Christian doctrine," Hine's e-mail stated, citing the party's positions on abortion, same-sex marriage, hate crimes, LGBT civil rights, and socialism as justification for the dissolution. While the club can still meet on campus, it cannot use the university's name or reserve university facilities.
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