"Owns! Owns!"
Posted on 03/27/2023 5:06:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The megalomania of the current crop of students, faculty, and administrators at our radical universities blinds them to the claims of their generations of benefactors.
The most recent shout-down debacle at Stanford’s law school, one of many such recent sordid episodes, prompts the question: “Who owns our universities?”
The law students who are in residence for three years apparently assume they embody the university. And so, they believe they represent and speak for a score of diverse Stanford interests when they shout down federal Judge Kyle Duncan, as if he were an intruder into their own woke private domain.
After all, Stanford, like most of the Ivy League universities, is a private institution. Are then its board of trustees, its faculty, its students, and its administration de facto overseers and owners?
Not really.
In the case of public institutions of higher learning, there is no controversy: The people own the university and, through their elected representatives, pay for and approve its entire budget. Again, through their selected regents and overseers, the taxpayers adjudicate the laws of these universities.
But private universities, while different, are not really so different.
Take again Stanford as a typical example. It receives about $1.5 billion per year in federal taxpayer grants alone to its various faculty, labs, research centers, and programs.
Its annual budget exceeds $8 billion. If Stanford accepts such huge federal and state direct largess, do the taxpayers who provide it have some say about how and under what conditions their recipients use their money?
Second, the university also has accumulated a $36 billion endowment. At normal annual investment returns, such an enormous fund may earn well over $2 billion a year. That income is almost all tax-free, based on the principle that Stanford is a nonprofit, apolitical institution.
But is it?
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Who wants to hire a lazy, narcissistic wokester that is going to do nothing but cause trouble for a business?
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We'll realize this when we're being herded into the death camps. By then, it'll be too late.
The federal govt?
It is long past time to eliminate tax free status from many non-profits and charitable foundations. Many of these organizations seek to destroy our culture, our values, our republican form of government. and our personal liberty. Why should they be exempt from taxation?
“the university has announced that its incoming class of 2026 includes 22 percent described as ‘white’.”
The Board of Trustees.
If you do this, the churches will also be taxed. The liberals want that so badly and the only reason they don’t go after it is because they know their groups would lose tax exempt as well. Both side have kept their powder dry waiting the other to be first to blow the whole thing up.
Colonel Sanders?
"Owns! Owns!"
After all, Stanford, and thousands of private universities like it, are not Hillsdale College. Hillsdale long ago lost trust in federal and state government due to their efforts to use their partial funding as a means of politically leveraging the college. And therefore, it has refused all public monies ever since.
But if the public “owns” much of private universities given the colossal amount of money it provides them, could the public at last insist that all colleges, public and private, simply abide by the laws of the land?
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Fugly people (inside and out) of the world, unite!
Twitter, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, just to name a few who have.
No, they aren’t “Nazi’s”, the all purpose boogieman.
Lofgren is who she’s always been: a stone faced Communist, deranged thug who will march millions into the Gulag for opposing her.
Should have never let the hag’s family into the country. Deport her back to the cute little Communism Lite daycare camp where they came from.
Yup. That’s right.
Only 22% and they are proud of that.
Take THAT, gringo! And give us all your money!
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