Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?
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#2Is there an alternate article link without paywall?
Re: Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?
#3Is there an alternate article link without paywall?
Use Incognito Mode.
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#4Because the Saudis have a ton of money to spend; more than they can spend locally.
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#5I don't understand the protests. I would expect educating Saudi youth in exceptionally liberal institutions like universities in the Northeast to have a net liberalizing effect on the Saudi government and culture long term. Is this not a better use of Saudi funds then e.g. buying more weapons?
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#6Is there an alternate article link without paywall?
Bittercynic meantioned in another comment on a different post the following method.
“Fwiw adding
0.0.0.0 samizdat-graph
to your /etc/hosts fixes this for me”
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#7The Julia lab is seemingly one of those beneficiaries [1].
[1] https://karpinski.org/images/2017,bezanson,julia%20-%20a%20f...
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#8I don't understand the protests. I would expect educating Saudi youth in exceptionally liberal institutions like universities in the Northeast to have a net liberalizing effect on the Saudi government and culture long term. Is this not a better use of Saudi funds then e.g. buying more weapons?
Kim Jong Un was educated in Switzerland, which has a very strong democratic environment, yet it didn’t change about how he ran North Korea.
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#9I don't understand the protests. I would expect educating Saudi youth in exceptionally liberal institutions like universities in the Northeast to have a net liberalizing effect on the Saudi government and culture long term. Is this not a better use of Saudi funds then e.g. buying more weapons?
> I don't understand the protests.
They were about the human rights abuses and war which some people find worth protesting regardless of whether or not a handful of wealthy elites get to attend a liberal university.