Five years ago, here: Coronavirus enables elite universities to pull off the ultimate scam?
First the big research universities figured out that they could charge more than $50,000 per year in tuition for in-person classes taught by graduate students with a tenuous hold on the English language. Now they’ve figured out that they can charge $50,000 per year without having to deliver in-person classes at all!
… A poster cluster in Harvard Yard, afternoon of March 10, 2020:
Speaking of universities, here’s one from the official White House X feed to Columbia:
Note that I don’t believe Columbia will receive less money as a result of this purported “cancelation”. The money will be “unfrozen” soon enough. It will be like the billions of dollars that the U.S. taxpayer has paid to Hamas over the years. We see a headline about “aid” to UNRWA (i.e., a funnel straight to Hamas) being cut off and then the “aid” is quietly restored a few months later after some weak promise is made by UNRWA or affiliates. Nonetheless, I enjoy hearing the former New Yorker saying “Shalom Columbia”!
In case the above gets memory-holed one day by a righteous administration:
I want to know why all the lesbians are in the basement. Talk about a buried lede
The planet and humanity are in crisis and dying. Let’s prioritize research on critical topics o save them like LGBTQ issues, food gender, and election interference. Who gives a dam about issues like math and reading skills, welfare dependency, or broken families.