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Re: Stanford and the OPH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Sun Jul 3 20:32:07 1994
From: theobald@zhishi.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 20:28:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: Vernon Imrich's message [Re: Stanford and the OPH] as of Jul 3, 19:50
To: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich), libertarians@MIT.EDU
| >while Stanford has many humanities
| >and social(ist) science majors, who tend to be statists.
|
|
| A strong possibility (though I still like to think it's just 'cause they
| were dumb enough to go to Stanford ;)
Perhaps, but I've read things in Reason about Bezerkeley graduates. The
ones from 25 years ago are quite statist and are running the city now, and
have virtually trashed property rights. On the other hand, I heard there
were lots of Pro-Reagan students there in the 80's, which could be considered
a small (very small) improvement over the previous generation.
Then again, Stanford *was* the school that kicked out a grad student for
criticizing Red China...
| Anyway, there some majors here at MIT (and elsewhere as well) that
| might lend themselves to certain political leanings. Every time I
| go to my office I pass by the sign for majors of: "Urban Studies and
| Planning" a related field to aritechture here.
Well, that field is pretty much a "social science," wouldn't you say?
Which supports my case. Of course, XIV and XVII are pretty bad too.
I knew an Ergo staffer who went to some kind of planning session as a
student rep. They were going to invite Lester Thurow to give some kind
of pro-statist speech, and were considering inviting a "pro-Reagan"
economist so they could appear to be balanced. The student suggested
that they should get someone from the Austrian School. One of the profs
said that would be like asking a Lysenkoist to give a talk on Biology!
(Lysenko was a buddy of Stalin who got to put his ideas into practice,
thereby setting back Soviet agriculture by decades. He thought genetics
was a Western plot, and he thought crops could be "trained" to grow in
Siberia.)
| One assignment they
| had (I saw some winning models) was to design and plan the "best use"
| for some city in Japan.
|
| I mean, after the first few assignments the professor would probably get
| tired of my solution: a blank piece of paper saying only "let the property
| owners decide."
I think I'd turn in a picture of Hiroshima from August 7, 1945, and suggest
"Beta test site." Talk about urban renewal! :-)
- Kevin
