[lit-ideas] Re: Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:25:54 -0330
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> Irene wrote
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> > Politics is absolutely about money. What do you think the rampant
> > lobbying is about? As for science being where the money is, if that
> > were true, science would be flooded with aspirants to scientific
> > degrees. As it turns out, they were all heading to the hedge funds and
> > there's now a shortage of scientists. If you think hedge funds aren't
> > political, check out who the Secretary of the Treasury is, which is to
> > say the former CEO of Morgan Stanley, and the Secretary before him and
> > on and on.
>
> Phil was talking about where the money is in Academia. In large
> 'research universities,' one's appeal as a faculty member in any of the
> hard sciences increases with the square of the funding one can attract.
> There are a few 'pure scientists' out there (just as there are 'pure
> mathematicians,' but university trustees like results). Grants to the
> science departments from government and industry help keep the lights on
> in the classics department. This is known as 'trickle down education.'
>
> Robert Paul
And the lights in such deportments as Classics help to guide the science and
engineering Faculties in meeting their obligations to the education (rather
than simply training) of students and to the pursuit of knowledge and
understanding regardless of any material payoff. A university, after all, is
not essentially a business venture; its mandate is the discovery of truth,
rightness and beauty. Neither economics, nor politics, nor religion, has any
privileged status in this pursuit of its own intrinsic and autonomous ends.
Walter O.
MUN
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