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Originally posted by Cowperson@Oct 1 2004, 04:30 PM
What the story doesn't tell us is whether or not paying someone $35,000 to speak is a common practice for the university.
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This is common practice. My wife has booked speakers in the past and it can get costly. Kevin Smith was supposed to go to USF in Tampa and speak, for a cool $10,000, but changed the schedule because he got a better offer elsewhere. The Students Union, the ones who make the money off of speaking engagements like this, were hung out to dry. It happens regularly though.
This also isn't the first time that the Republicans have killed a Moore speaking engagement. One of the University of Califormnia campuses has Moore booked and were forced to cancel when they were pressured by the state Republicans for equal time. Unfortunately the school couldn't find a speaker who would satisfy the Republicans and the whole engagement was cancelled. The only ones this hurt was the Student's Union. So go life in American Universities.