Just for the record, here is a copy of the letter I faxed to Dr. Harter:

Dr. Carol C. Harter
President, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, Nevada 89154
fax: 702-895-1088

Dear Dr. Harter,

I am writing to protest the University’s treatment of Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Several press reports indicate that he is being endlessly investigated for a statement (which he has made many times before and since) regarding the higher time preferences of homosexuals and other people who do not typically have children. While I am not a sociologist and have not made an extensive review of the academic literature on the time preferences of homosexuals, this seems to be entirely plausible in the context of Dr. Hoppe’s discussions regarding time preference, both in his writings and his lectures.

As a fan of his book, Democracy: The God That Failed, I attended a weeklong series of lectures by Dr. Hoppe last summer at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. I was, quite frankly, awed to be in the presence of one of the premier living figures of the Austrian School of economics, an intellectual heir to Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, and Murray Rothbard. The lectures summarized his research regarding the historical growth of the State and the prospects for a libertarian future. Among other wide ranging topics, his lectures touched on the variations in time preference among populations. The entire course is available on the Mises Institute’s website as a series of audio recordings. You do not have to rely solely upon the complaining student’s word, since I don’t think the Mises lectures were substantially different from his classroom lectures in that regard. His lecture on time preference, specifically, can be found here:

http://media.mises.org/mp3/hoppe/4.mp3

I would at the least hope that Dr. Hoppe’s explorations of the topic be given a fair and open hearing, and I would expect nothing less from an institute of higher learning. As it is, though, the University’s actions have been shameful. I can only imagine the pressure that was brought to bear to have forced an anarchocapitalist to ally himself with the American Civil Liberties Union. I hope you will listen to them, if not Dr. Hoppe! Meanwhile, I advise the faculty and students of UNLV against sitting around waiting for the opportunity to take offense. I assure you, you won’t have to wait long.

Sincerely,

Michael Hall