[45] in libertarians
Re: Stanford and the OPH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Sun Jul 3 20:52:36 1994
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 94 20:49:40 -0400
From: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU, theobald@zhishi.cs.mcgill.ca,
vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu
Bezerkley IS the Cambridge of the West Coast (only they're too dumb to
even try to exploit the university the way Cambridge does). However, the
campus is not nearly a reflection of the city. In fact, the two hate
each other throughly. The chancellor once said: "if we could pick up
the entire campus and deposit it 20 or 30 miles from here, we would."
The students cheered. At Berkley they still remember free speech so its
harder for the new anti-censorship left to get going as well. Its
definately liberal, but not necessarily in a statist way. Berkeley the
city, on the other hand, is the city from hell. I always say I went
to MIT for grad school because it was the farthest I could get from
Berkeley (in the US at least).
Stanford, on the other hand has all the trappings of the worst kind of
liberalism. It's chock full of a bunch of rich kids who feel guilty
about their pampered lives. I call these the "Kennedy Liberals:" People
who can always spare the time to come out of their luxurious vacation
compound or yacht to tell us all how we should be helping out the "little
guy" more or how greedy we all are.
I do generalize about Satanford a bit, my uncle and two cousins went there
and seemed to come out ok. Then again, my mother and another one of my
cousins went to Berkeley and I think we all turned out better :)
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