[123] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Objectivist morals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sourav K. Mandal)
Fri Apr 20 14:33:42 2001
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From: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:33:23 -0400
""Constantine K. Christakos" <dean@MIT.EDU>" wrote:
> You will, of course, remember that I was refering to the Harvard Live-In
> wage protests, and the students _do_ whip out their wallets and pay for
> innumerable Deans, enforcer RAs, etc., etc., etc., and decided they'd
> prefer that their tuition go also towards paying the other support-staff
> more.
And I've argued that to do that would be to compromise (albeit
incrementally) Harvard's goal as an educational institution and
research center -- a university should not be running a welfare
program. If I were a student at Harvard, I would much rather that
fellow students who want to give away money do so via other means.
Sourav
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