[47] in libertarians
Re: Stanford and the OPH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Sun Jul 3 21:09:01 1994
From: theobald@zhishi.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 21:05:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: Vernon Imrich's message [Re: Stanford and the OPH] as of Jul 3, 20:49
To: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich), libertarians@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."
According to the Reason article (sorry I can't remember the month, but
it was like 10 years ago) the city was run by alumni. Maybe they all
hated their school or something.
| The students cheered. At Berkley they still remember free speech so its
| harder for the new anti-censorship left to get going as well.
That's encouraging.
| 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:"
Nah... Kennedy liberals all go to the "H" school... Maybe these are
Left Coast liberals.
| 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 :)
Anyway, ever hear of Steven Mosher? He lived in Guangdong (S.E. China)
for a year for his Stanford Ph.D. thesis work. He witnessed 8-month-pregnant
women being forced to have abortions. He blew the whistle in a Taiwan
newspaper. The Red Chinese complained to Stanford, threatening to cut
off ties, so the Stanford Anthropology department complied and kicked
him out.
But Stanford *does* have a cool marching band...
- Kevin
