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How much you want to bet that Barack’s terrorist buddy Ayers and wife Dohrn were two of the hundred?

Well, these three do, according to a Chicago Tribune story:

"It is a right-wing think tank being put in place," said Bruce Lincoln, a professor of the history of religions and one of the faculty members who met with the administration Tuesday. "The long-term consequences will be very severe. This will be a flagship entity and it will attract a lot of money and a lot of attention, and I think work at the university and the university's reputation will take a serious rightward turn to the detriment of all." . . .

"I don't think any institute of any educational institution should be so strongly aligned behind a single ideological program," said U. of C. music professor and department chair Robert Kendrick. . . .

"For many people who travel around the word, the university has had a pretty bad reputation that is tied to the Chicago School and economic principles that Milton Friedman advocated," said Yali Amit, a U. of C. statistics and computer science professor. "We don't think it's a great idea to strengthen this reputation."

“’For people who travel around the world, the university has had a pretty bad reputation that is tied to the Chicago School and the economics principles that Milton Friedman advocated,’ said Yali Amit, a U. of C. statistics and computer science professor.”

Sure, for people who travel to North Korea and Cuba.

For many people who travel around the word, the university has had a pretty bad reputation that is tied to the Chicago School and economic principles that Milton Friedman advocated..

If you travel in academic circles where the academics are non too strenuous he's right. The rest of the world considers the U of C economics department to be a bright beacon in the otherwise murky, fetid marsh of academia.

"For many people who travel around the word, the university has had a pretty bad reputation that is tied to the Chicago School and economic principles that Milton Friedman advocated," said Yali Amit, a U. of C. statistics and computer science professor. "We don't think it's a great idea to strengthen this reputation."

Poor dumb sh'ts. The university has a bad reputation among Marxists and other opponents of free market economics. Tough crap. It's the free market that floats even their barnacle-encrusted and leaky boats.