Stones into Schools dropped after questions about author emerge.
By MATT HRIBAR ’12
Eye Staff Reporter
Composition students summer reading has suddenly been changed due to controversy surrounding the author of one of the titles. Students entering Composition Class next year were assigned the book Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson to read as one of the two summer books. However, Mortenson has been accused of fabricating stories in his memoir Three Cups of Tea which centers around the author’s experiences in Afghanistan and his decision to begin raising money to contstruct schools there.
According to Steve Kroft of CBS’s 60 Minutes, Mortenson simply made up many of the most important events in his memoir. Kroft claims that Mortenson was not captured by the Taliban and the promise to build a school also did not take place. 60 Minutes also exposed that the amount of money that Mortenson’s foundation, the Central Asia Institute, spends on Mortenson’s personal expenses–such as charter airfare–is disproportionately high compared to that going to build schools. In short, the amount of money that was promised and was supposedly being given to schools was false.
In some schools, the \”memoir”
