The University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and
Economics has wrapped up a 10-year, $2.5 million donation from BB&T
that will result in a new program on capitalism and funding toward the
college's $65 million renovation. But Gatton officials stepped
back from the more controversial aspects of the original 2004 agreement,
including a requirement for an Ayn Rand reading room, named for the
novelist and free market philosopher. "I thought it (the original
agreement) was slanted a bit too much toward Ayn Rand," said Gatton Dean
David Blackwell, who negotiated a new deal with BB&T. "I'm a fan,
but there are lots of other philosophers to study for the moral
foundations of capitalism. She wasn't even a very good philosopher."...
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