By Matt Holdridge
More news from Bonnie Kristian at YAL regarding Indiana University and Tom Woods.
I’ve posted here before about Indiana University-Bloomington’s ridiculous rejection of Dr. Tom Woods on the excuse that he lacked “sufficient academic credibility” — despite his degrees from Harvard and Columbia, authorship of NYTbestsellers, and position as a senior scholar at the Mises Institute.
Since then, YAL at IU-B has been working hard to raise the funds necessary to bring Woods to campus on their own. For a while, it looked as if the university might be backing down. Not anymore. As the club’s president, Sam Spaiser, now explains, the lectures board denied a second request on the grounds that the club was “too prepared”:
“The fact that we came prepared, had already contacted Woods and secured a date, proposed a schedule for the event, and selected (although not booked) a room, this caused the Lectures Committee to feel left out of the process.”
Read more here.