Harvard has an endowment north of 50 billion dollars. This is more money than the GDP of many nations. Yale and University of Texas system are both north of 40 billion. Michigan and Notre Dame are 20 billion.
Yet students pay 60k per year or more to attend these schools. When I went to Michigan in the 80s yearly tuition was about 20k. My niece is paying over 50k. Its easy to raise it this high when a State University no longer serves the students of its State but foreigners from the middle east and China.
When I went to Michigan it was predominantly Michigan kids. If you were top 30 in your HS you would get in easy. My niece was valedictorian at her HS but got wait listed and had to go to Michigan State for her freshmen year until she got into Michigan.
A University education is a scam, a grift. All for a piece of paper that says you have been properly indoctrinated. It no longer means you were properly educated.
And dont get me started on some of these degrees they hand out. A University should instruct in STEM related fields. Nobody needs a degree in womens studies or black empowerment or art history or psychology or even communications. These degrees are completely worthless and can only be used for culture war fields like human resources and DEI officer. And the degrees do nothing but saddle the student with almost unpayable debt. Now you know why Gen Z cant afford a house.
Amen. I went to University of Illinois 40 years ago. It was sort of hard to get in then but now it's crazy. If they are going to give preference to anyone the state universities should give preference to people who live and have lived and paid taxes in the state for some time. The number of Chinese at U of I when my kids went to college was NUTS. My STEM son was waitlisted and went elsewhere, by Liberal Arts got in but didn't want to go to U of I, probably because I kept bitching about the corrupt Presidents handing out really hard to get admissions to their friends.
Maintain racial preferences in hiring and admission and it's crickets from Congress.
But if your diversity hire plagiarist black President actually stands up for free speech for probably the first time ever by refusing to condemn the statements as bullying or threats or whatever, God help you because they're coming after your funding and they suddenly care she is a plagiarist.
Why can't these spineless Republicans defend AMERICA with the same vigor they try and protect Israel?
Since when do progressives peacefully protest? Gay is not standing up for free speech. She's been ordered to dumbly, pun intended, stand with Hamas no matter what. The lawmakers are using this opportunity to call for defunding a woke dei vested college practicing apartheid..
Since this Harvard one apparently. Seriously, go look at the Boston Herald's picture of the protesters where they claim students were "terrified" and tell me this looks anything like your normal progressive protest.
Most of the girls are traditionally feminine with long hair and aren't dressed like cheap whores and almost none are 200+ pounds
No hooded goons.
Not seeing many soy boy types either
No signs on sticks
Nobody wearing helmets
They are walking in an orderly line with green safety vested people on either side. Do you see a single bullhorn? Were any Starbucks or cars harmed?
Yet supposedly this "terrified" people?
As far as Gay, obviously she is playing the identity politics game where Arab Muslims beat Israeli Jews in the Oppression Olympics. However, in this case that requires her to support the free speech of the protesters. Conservatives will not fare well when words are considered violence. I think it sets a dangerous precedent when government funding is withheld because the "wrong" speech wasn't suppressed. We would be happy if Democrats tried to deny Federal funds to a Christian University if students protested men that claim to be women on biological women's sports teams and the University didn't suspend or expel them for hate speech?
Propaganda photos in the MSM are not informative. Yes, several students storming dormitories shouting death threats throughout the evening can be terrifying. Freedom of speech already does not exist on college campuses for those who do not follow the trending narrative. Federal funds should have been pulled from private colleges years ago -- private colleges should never have been funded in the first place.
While I agree that Harvard and others like them, should not be sucking off the taxpayer, to create a 'special' class of person. So, let's just deprive them of money for a good while.
I worry about the going after people for anti-semitism, however. Often, that discrimination is simply debating with some jumped-up opinionated (didn't know they were a Jew) person in a group setting (Yes, that happened to me, and we were literally sitting on chairs, drinking coffee); or not publicly condemning HAMAS enough. Hardly Genocidal.
But what about all those people who are anti-Palestinian? That's fine? Let it rip. How dare they 'attack' Jews. I am not saying that Palestinians are blameless, but perhaps they have a point?
In any case, Palestinians generally live overseas, so we should not care for dead fuzzy-wuzzie kids right? So instead, we must advocate for Jewish people on campus only? Weird, and rather insular.
My point is: We should not be comfortable with any genocide, however, universities should not cancel anyone for having an opinion, either.
Mind you, it could be a case of turning their woke policies against them, so we shall keep an eye out.
They are using this as a tool to get support for censorship. Either you protect the Jews or Hamas. Either way free speech is free speech. When people cry out for censorship they will grant it then like everything else instantly expand it to censor EVERYTHING they dont like. That is why from the start I have been saying stay out of it and dont take a side.
Yea that's obviously fine and good. I was just saying for the normies perspective of taking a side. They will use it to divide and then people like we see in congress daily now... "protect muh jews". They are going to try and use it to bring in hate speech laws and censoring. That's all I was saying.
The truth of Israel using rape and pedophilia operations as leverage/ blackmail for political gain should shouted from the rooftop for people to understand that they are just as degenerate as the pedo rapists jihadis.
harvard has an endowment trust that was accumulated by alumnus that is so large it can pay all it's expenses and fund the tuition of all its students multiple times over and still have a buttload of cash in the bank. it never needed taxpayer funding.
Because tax funded research and studies like where we found out why fat butch dike lesbians are more unhappy than other people are important. Let’s be honest who would pay for that if they didn’t steal it from you and give it to them to do it?
Has anyone read the book by Rhonda Moorman, “Mr. Obama and Me”? The Mr. Is important.
She was at Harvard while Zero was there. It makes you think twice about adoration of Harvard.
so all these politicians were ok with Harvard not paying their fair share while the rest of us did up until the moment Harvard didn't crack down immediately on someone saying something bad about Israel, do i have that right?
No for-profit college should receive any taxpayer money, ever, period.
Harvard has an endowment north of 50 billion dollars. This is more money than the GDP of many nations. Yale and University of Texas system are both north of 40 billion. Michigan and Notre Dame are 20 billion.
Yet students pay 60k per year or more to attend these schools. When I went to Michigan in the 80s yearly tuition was about 20k. My niece is paying over 50k. Its easy to raise it this high when a State University no longer serves the students of its State but foreigners from the middle east and China.
When I went to Michigan it was predominantly Michigan kids. If you were top 30 in your HS you would get in easy. My niece was valedictorian at her HS but got wait listed and had to go to Michigan State for her freshmen year until she got into Michigan.
A University education is a scam, a grift. All for a piece of paper that says you have been properly indoctrinated. It no longer means you were properly educated.
And dont get me started on some of these degrees they hand out. A University should instruct in STEM related fields. Nobody needs a degree in womens studies or black empowerment or art history or psychology or even communications. These degrees are completely worthless and can only be used for culture war fields like human resources and DEI officer. And the degrees do nothing but saddle the student with almost unpayable debt. Now you know why Gen Z cant afford a house.
Amen. I went to University of Illinois 40 years ago. It was sort of hard to get in then but now it's crazy. If they are going to give preference to anyone the state universities should give preference to people who live and have lived and paid taxes in the state for some time. The number of Chinese at U of I when my kids went to college was NUTS. My STEM son was waitlisted and went elsewhere, by Liberal Arts got in but didn't want to go to U of I, probably because I kept bitching about the corrupt Presidents handing out really hard to get admissions to their friends.
So to recap:
Maintain racial preferences in hiring and admission and it's crickets from Congress.
But if your diversity hire plagiarist black President actually stands up for free speech for probably the first time ever by refusing to condemn the statements as bullying or threats or whatever, God help you because they're coming after your funding and they suddenly care she is a plagiarist.
Why can't these spineless Republicans defend AMERICA with the same vigor they try and protect Israel?
Since when do progressives peacefully protest? Gay is not standing up for free speech. She's been ordered to dumbly, pun intended, stand with Hamas no matter what. The lawmakers are using this opportunity to call for defunding a woke dei vested college practicing apartheid..
Since this Harvard one apparently. Seriously, go look at the Boston Herald's picture of the protesters where they claim students were "terrified" and tell me this looks anything like your normal progressive protest.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/12/01/harvard-students-terrified-after-pro-palestinian-protesters-disrupt-classes-with-antisemitic-chants-and-bullhorns/
They are walking in an orderly line with green safety vested people on either side. Do you see a single bullhorn? Were any Starbucks or cars harmed?
Yet supposedly this "terrified" people?
As far as Gay, obviously she is playing the identity politics game where Arab Muslims beat Israeli Jews in the Oppression Olympics. However, in this case that requires her to support the free speech of the protesters. Conservatives will not fare well when words are considered violence. I think it sets a dangerous precedent when government funding is withheld because the "wrong" speech wasn't suppressed. We would be happy if Democrats tried to deny Federal funds to a Christian University if students protested men that claim to be women on biological women's sports teams and the University didn't suspend or expel them for hate speech?
Propaganda photos in the MSM are not informative. Yes, several students storming dormitories shouting death threats throughout the evening can be terrifying. Freedom of speech already does not exist on college campuses for those who do not follow the trending narrative. Federal funds should have been pulled from private colleges years ago -- private colleges should never have been funded in the first place.
Great q OffGridGuy!
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While I agree that Harvard and others like them, should not be sucking off the taxpayer, to create a 'special' class of person. So, let's just deprive them of money for a good while.
I worry about the going after people for anti-semitism, however. Often, that discrimination is simply debating with some jumped-up opinionated (didn't know they were a Jew) person in a group setting (Yes, that happened to me, and we were literally sitting on chairs, drinking coffee); or not publicly condemning HAMAS enough. Hardly Genocidal.
But what about all those people who are anti-Palestinian? That's fine? Let it rip. How dare they 'attack' Jews. I am not saying that Palestinians are blameless, but perhaps they have a point?
In any case, Palestinians generally live overseas, so we should not care for dead fuzzy-wuzzie kids right? So instead, we must advocate for Jewish people on campus only? Weird, and rather insular.
My point is: We should not be comfortable with any genocide, however, universities should not cancel anyone for having an opinion, either.
Mind you, it could be a case of turning their woke policies against them, so we shall keep an eye out.
They are using this as a tool to get support for censorship. Either you protect the Jews or Hamas. Either way free speech is free speech. When people cry out for censorship they will grant it then like everything else instantly expand it to censor EVERYTHING they dont like. That is why from the start I have been saying stay out of it and dont take a side.
Israel=Epstein=Maxwell=Mossad=Israel= Pedophiles and Rapists
Palestine=Hamas=Islam/jihad=Mohammed=Pedophiles and rapists
These are the sides to choose from?
Why not be outspoken and call out both sides as being supporters of pedophiles and rapists.
Yea that's obviously fine and good. I was just saying for the normies perspective of taking a side. They will use it to divide and then people like we see in congress daily now... "protect muh jews". They are going to try and use it to bring in hate speech laws and censoring. That's all I was saying.
No I agree, that is how they use it.
The truth of Israel using rape and pedophilia operations as leverage/ blackmail for political gain should shouted from the rooftop for people to understand that they are just as degenerate as the pedo rapists jihadis.
WTF do they get billions to start with?
They are very rick.
Why are they getting federal (tax payers) money anyway?
Right , I’m so exhausted by all these bastards ! Billions to create millions of indoctrinated robots .. unbelievable
harvard has an endowment trust that was accumulated by alumnus that is so large it can pay all it's expenses and fund the tuition of all its students multiple times over and still have a buttload of cash in the bank. it never needed taxpayer funding.
Take erkles money
Why do they get a dime?
Because tax funded research and studies like where we found out why fat butch dike lesbians are more unhappy than other people are important. Let’s be honest who would pay for that if they didn’t steal it from you and give it to them to do it?
Strip ALL colleges of ALL government funds. The whole thing is unconstitutional as hell.
Why do they get anything? Its just another way to keep taxing us to death while they skim all the money!
Has anyone read the book by Rhonda Moorman, “Mr. Obama and Me”? The Mr. Is important. She was at Harvard while Zero was there. It makes you think twice about adoration of Harvard.
Like the idea, but the RINOs won’t get behind it.
BILLIONS of funds???????? I'll bet they got billions in Covid relief while the taxpayers got 2400 bucks over a 2 year period if I remember correct!
Just do it....
so all these politicians were ok with Harvard not paying their fair share while the rest of us did up until the moment Harvard didn't crack down immediately on someone saying something bad about Israel, do i have that right?