I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
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I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
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Re: I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
#2Amidst all the inhumane political calamity TFA hits on the most
interesting sounding discussion on the limits of rational perception,
relation of computabilty and knowability. That's a talk I'd like to
see.
Re: I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
#3I don't think the institution will run out of money any time soon. It's a $50bn prop trading firm with a university attached.
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#4sidebar - will your lecture be streamed to the general public?
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#5I don't think the institution will run out of money any time soon. It's a $50bn prop trading firm with a university attached.
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#6Private colleges shouldn't be taking public money to begin with. Hopefully this ends with colleges having their (private college) tax exempt status revoked. Anyone who's been to Massachusetts knows how much real estate Harvard (and MIT, and BU, and Boston College, etc, etc.) owns. Why should they be tax exempt?
End it now.
Also, Trump's demands are silly and not even internally consistent.
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#8I don't think the institution will run out of money any time soon. It's a $50bn prop trading firm with a university attached.
This is why they needed to be the one to fight, if they folded no one else had a chance to stop this government overreach.
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#9What crisis the Universities endowment bigger than ever. What's losing a few federal dollars gonna do.
Oh wait the admin staff is in danger that decided to quadruple their positions and give themselves raises as they torpedoed The quality of education and services on campus. They deserves everything it's getting and more. I say this as somebody that Was a student there and worked for the university.
Re: I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
#10Private colleges shouldn't be taking public money to begin with. Hopefully this ends with colleges having their (private college) tax exempt status revoked. Anyone who's been to Massachusetts knows how much real estate Harvard (and MIT, and BU, and Boston College, etc, etc.) owns. Why should they be tax exempt? End it now. Also, Trump's demands are silly and not even internally consistent.
They are both colleges (educational institutions) and research institutions. For decades or more, research in the USA has been a central function of government (although it also happens in a few entirely privately funded organizations). That's what (most) of the public money is for, and there is no sane reason to stop that.