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By Maggie Vancampen —
Despite the power outage that affected campus, Wednesday, Oct. 10, author Matt Ridley delivered a presentation titled “Optimism and Innovation” to an audience of about 50 in the College of Business.
Ridley was the second presenter of the Center for Free Enterprise’s fall speaker series, and he said the world isn’t as bad as it seems.
“We could have had a headline in the newspaper this morning: ‘137,000 people lifted out of poverty yesterday.