From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 05:12:45 MDT
McGill shrugged: Ayn Rand chair in philosophy not for us, university
says
ZACH DUBINSKY
Montreal Gazette
Saturday, July 27, 2002
Cash-strapped McGill University has rebuffed a hefty sum from a donor
seeking to create a position in the school's philosophy department for
the study of Ayn Rand, the author who espoused a radical brand of
individualism.
The donor, Gilles Tremblay, approached the university in 1999 with a
proposal to create what academics call a "chair" by endowing in
perpetuity a professorship.
In this case, the chair would be a professorship for the teaching of
Rand's works.
Tremblay gave $10,000 at that time as a token donation to get the
project under way, and McGill acknowledged the gift in a 2001 report on
its fundraising activities. To endow a chair - McGill currently has 115
of them - costs at least $1.5 million.
Tremblay, 81, is a businessman who graduated from the university in the
1950s. He said last week that he intended to bequeath the necessary
money in his will.
For the rest of this story, see
http://www.canada.com/search/site/story.asp?id=8D373434-1D04-419F-9A1E-7
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