North Carolina Universities: 'Where the Money Goes, So Goes Ayn Rand'

Ayn Rand is out there causing all sorts of trouble again, as we learned by way of Archinect, as told in this story in The Charlotte Observer, “Donor Gave, and UNCC Winced.” In a fairly bizarre tale, John Allison, a banker in North Carolina, who went to UNCC, has been criss-crossing the state, donating millions of dollars to universities, but with one stipulation: Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” has to become required reading, thus entering the pro-industrialist and “creators should live only for themselves” book back into popular conversation (in North Carolina at least).