It looks like Founders College,
a project being promoted by Duke prof Gary Hull, is not going to
settle in Oxford, NC, after all. There was a public hearing last night
in Lynch Station, VA, where Hull and others addressed locals about the
possible takeover of a defunct resort and conference center
there. People who were at the meeting tell me the locals were receptive
to the idea but were worried about the group having enough funding to
follow through successfully.
Hull had looked at Oxford and
a location in Maine as a home to the college, which would base its
curriculum on the teachings of Ayn Rand. From what locals heard last
night, the 1,000-acre resort near Altavista, VA, has the inside track
for the school. (Ed: Full disclosure ? I once edited a weekly paper there in the mid-’70s, so I still have sources.)
