Mm $150k. I’m young and risk-loving. (Not that I’d be in any potential applicant pool for another like, 20-30 years)

Me neither

What’s the best way to deal with hedge fund activists?

Up until 2016, Berkeley College Republicans and the Cal Berkeley Democrats used to have an annual debate. Or this kind of longstanding practice of forums/discourse home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/11...

For example, one of my mentors (Jeff Miron at Harvard) is a staunch libertarian, and I find our conversations on policy hugely enriching. I've been wondering how to essentially scale that up

Yes, and I personally think that's where the real changes need to happen. @andrewbaker.bsky.social pointed out the lack of leading conservative thought at universities a while back (plz correct me on interpretation) and I've been thinking of that.

Oh yeah, these official statements are what I had in mind with the lackluster emails

And then because of the way it's viewed, when I was an undergrad, right-wing speakers (like Milo Yiannopoulos) would specifically try to come to Berkeley just to instigate.

Generally, I think it can be hard to change perceptions, and it can be hard to divorce opinions of the student body from how the institution is viewed. For ex: the Free Speech Movement was a student-led movement at Berkeley that has arguably forever shaped the way the instiution is viewed.

Hm do you have examples of lacking institutional neutrality? In which ways do universities take stances other than the lackluster emails we get in response to major events (and their financial investments)?