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Feb 08, 2010 14:16

Dudes who are seniors! You should give to the senior class gift thing, if you have extra monies lying around! Because it is an endowment for scholarships and financial aid is awesome. Good job, senior class officials, you have come up with a sweet gift for which I am motivated to separate myself from mah greenbacks. While, yeah, it would be nice to ( Read more... )

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grenadier32 February 8 2010, 19:25:09 UTC

My understanding of economic conservatism is that it allows individuals to be generous with charity/aid/whatever on their own initiative, but discourages collectives from forcing it upon the individuals that make them up.

myopian8 February 8 2010, 19:37:01 UTC

Fo sho. My mom charitably gives to the Chicago Public School system every year, for example. And you can think of that serving her economic interests because she values education worth however many $$ she gives to the CPS. But I don't think this is quite an example of that ( ... )

darth_snarky February 8 2010, 21:34:20 UTC

There's also sizable financial aid that comes from the government (Pell Grants, for example, though there's no way you'd qualify for those, or subsidized Stafford loans), that are funded by tax dollars, not any school's endowment. (And if the school is managing their endowment properly--which according to recent news, certain Ivy-league schools weren't) the amount that comes out to fund current students and departments and new buildings/improvements should eventually come back via good investments/interest ( ... )

etai February 9 2010, 06:14:52 UTC

Plucky the Duck from Tiny Toons?

fatuniverse February 13 2010, 04:07:22 UTC

You *are* plucky. One of the things I like about you. That and you care about your friends.

I find your parents awesome. I also feel extremely guilty that I woke your mom up at like 11PM when I was trying to call your cell phone and dialed your Chicago home number instead because it was also listed in my phone as "Sonia."

I also still owe you for housing me. When interviews are over and I'm closer to done with work, like sometime in April-June, we should meet up! I'll try to take advantage of a federal holiday (e.g. President's Day). Let me know what your schedule is like. I can easily take a bus on the weekend to NYC, and you're welcome to come over to DC.

myopian8 February 17 2010, 02:55:57 UTC

Sounds like a plan! :D