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n2doc

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8. "Making a lot of money does not demonstrate that you are very smart,"

Reply to ancianita (Original post)

Sun Jun 24, 2012, 01:14 PM

Jun 2012

says Arras, the Bioethics Program professor. "And even if you are very clever, there are different types of intelligence. A successful real estate empire is not at all like a university. These people are talking about cutting classics -- Greeks and Romans, the foundations of Western thought -- because it's not profitable enough."

Exactly. The worship of the rich has got to stop.

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UVA Is Sold Out To The Vampire Squid, Just Like Most Major Universities [View all] ancianita Jun 2012 OP

Enclosure of the Commons on steroids...... marmar Jun 2012 #1

My suggestion for those of us who've been college educated: ancianita Jun 2012 #2

''Fortune 500 University'' Octafish Jun 2012 #3

1st crapitalists came for the guvmint, then the craitalists bought the gnews. now they are buying pansypoo53219 Jun 2012 #4

I posted this a few months back, but it seems appropriate here. white_wolf Jun 2012 #5

Thanks. ancianita Jun 2012 #6

Mitch Daniels has been hired by the board at Purdue bbgrunt Jun 2012 #7

"Making a lot of money does not demonstrate that you are very smart," n2doc Jun 2012 #8