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Clean Air Trust
December 31, 2001 ...They all involve Wendy Lee Gramm, named today by the nonprofit Clean Air Trust as its "villain of the month" for January. Gramm is director of the "regulatory studies program" at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. Mercatus is an increasingly influential, anti-regulatory "think tank" created by and subsidized by polluter money... ...Which brings us back to Wendy Gramm and the Mercatus Center, which Charles Koch also chairs. Indeed, Koch helped launch the center with a $3 million contribution to George Mason University in 1997. The University proudly notes on its web site that Koch gave an additional $10 million multi-year grant "to support programs focused on market-based solutions to social and economic problems." In other words, Koch basically rents the university's name to give a patina of credibility to Wendy Gramm's anti-environmental agenda...
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[From -The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations by NCRP] The heavy stream of money invested in George Mason University offers a striking example of the attention that conservative foundations have paid to the recruitment and training of college youth. Located just outside the Washington, D.C. beltway and offering good access to national decision makers, George Mason University has been a magnet for right-wing money for over a decade. From 1992 through 1994, the 12 foundations invested a combined total of $8.55 million in various academic programs and institutes of George Mason University. This amount placed the University third among all academic and non-academic grantees, traiing only the more prestigious University of Chicago and the Heritage Foundation. Among other things, awards to George Mason University supported the work of the Center for Market Processes ($2.1 million), the Center for the Study of Public Choice ($524,100), the Institute for Humane Studies ($3 million), and the Law and Economics Program and Center ($1.4 million), headed by Henry Manne. Both the Institute for Humane Studies(IHS) and the Center for Market Processes(CMP) offer training programs for young conservatives to prepare them for public policy careers. The Institute for Humane Studies' mission is to support "the achievement of a freer society by discovering and facilitating the development of talented, productive students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share a commitment to liberty and who demonstrate the potential to change significanly the current climate of opinion to one more congenial to the principles and practices of freedom." Among its many objectives, the Institute seeks "to enhance [young peoples'] career skills and their understanding of strategically targeted career paths through seminars, mentoring, internshps, and networking." Toward that end, IHS holds summer seminars for students on free market economics and libertarian thought. Participation at these seminars is free. The Institute is also well enough funded to offer student fellowships of up to $17,500 for continued study. The Center for Market Processes offers a fellowship summer training program, bringing students from across the country to participate in two weeks of "intellectual" training on market-based public policy followed by an eight-week internship placement with conservative policy institutions. CMP also maintains an active Policymaker Education Program for senior Congressional staffers, organizes conferences and other policy meetings, promotes public policy research in areas of special interest, and publishes several newslettters including Pro-Market Network News, distributed free to anyone who wants it and intended, as the publication states, "to facilitate communication between market-oriented professionals, policy centers, government offices, education institutes, and other organizations." The Law and Economics Center mission is to educate judges in how to apply principles of economic analysis to the law. By 1991, the Center had provided such training -- with seminars held at resort locations to enhance their attractiveness -- to over 40 percent of the federal judiciary. Like the Center for the Study of Market Processes, the LEC is run independently of George Mason, with corporate and foundation sponsors covering "all travel, lodging and meal expenses for the most powerful players in the legal system--judges."
[From Flipside.org] George Mason University's Law and Economics Center has as its mission to teach federal judges that the goal of the law should be to maximize the wealth of society by promoting the efficient use of scarce resources. Thus conceived, the law is no longer about the Constitution, or about ethics or justice. In this view, courts become an appendage of the market, promoting efficiency, not equity. By 1991, the Law and Economics Center had provided such training to 40% of all federal judges by offering them all-expense-paid seminars held at resort locations.
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The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) acts as a libertarian talent scout, identifying, developing, and supporting the brightest young libertarians it can find who are intent on a leveraged scholarly, or intellectual, career path. Each year IHS awards over $400,000 in scholarships to students from universities around the world.
Jacob Fawcett
CampusProgress.org
October 11, 2005 Student and Air Force veteran Tariq Khan got beaten down. So did the Bill of Rights. When military recruiters set up a kiosk at George Mason University on September 29th, Tariq Khan, a Pakistani American and Air Force veteran, assumed that he was allowed to protest. After all, GMU is a public university and the Johnson Center, where he stood, is a public facility. Even more notably, the school itself is named after George Mason, the father of the Bill of Rights who wrote that freedom of speech “is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.”
Only an hour later, Tariq sat in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center with an untreated head wound on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct. What went wrong?
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Dave Johnson
Seeing The Forest
August 28, 2004 George Mason University adjunct professor writes column calling John Kerry an "Uppity Rich Guy with a Superiority Complex".
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