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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that Harvard and other US universities can do more to accept domestic students, but it should not be by force.  Vote with your feet. if you think that Harvard is not serving your purpose, apply to other schools. Sooner or later, Harvard will self correct. But bullying to get what you want is not the way to go. n [/quote]

I'll say this about Trump - his political instincts are uncanny. When you dig down into the issue - should taxpayers be spending billions on supporting the richest and most prestigious university in America, a university where more than a third of students are foreign and which has a well-established pattern of propagating fringe progressive beliefs, or should we take that money and support trade schools for young Americans, I can guarantee that 90 percent of Americans are with Trump on this one. I suspect's Harvard's strategy will be to keep things tied up in court forever and wait out this administration and hope for a more Harvard-friendly president who will turn the tap back on. But the way it's being framed - as a class issue - this is a losing issue for Democrats to push back on. I think Harvard and the other schools where more than a third of students are international are on their own. [/quote]

Not at all surprising that a Trump admirer would think Harvard research is unnecessary but the government should pay for welders and plumbers. [/quote]

Not a Trump admirer but I don't think all those research dollars are going to the Dana Farber Institute. There's a lot of graduate level research in pretty fringe fields. I'm not sure I think a multi-year grand to study the neurobiology of learning is going to change modern life compared to, say, a microwave. Universities spend a lot on patenting their research outcome. Maybe the revenue from successful patents should be shared with the Fed. 
But given the fact that universities rely on government funding instead of revenue from their patents, there's not a lot of accountability going on compared to say the research that goes on in the private sector (GE, P&G, J&J, Pharma, etc..)
There are a lot of post-grads in post-grad hell. They rely on grants to keep going and cannot spin out into the private sector at all (e.g. sample list above). That is why the competition in post-graduate level academia is so fierce over paltry amounts. 
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Dude, you know NOTHING about research, much less about research at a university such as Harvard. Private sector relies heavily on the government for research too. We ALL benefit from this.

You're either a troll or too dumb to keep talking to if you think a microwave is more important than cancer research. [/quote]
Lot's of people on one particular side of this try to insult people into silence. It's very interesting to watch...[/quote]

Yes, Trump tries to insult people and threaten them to keep silent while he is outright corrupt and following the authoritarian playbook in full view.  It's disgusting.    [/quote]

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