Do donors have too much influence over universities?
“I scarcely know anybody who works in the academy these days who isn’t concerned about donors’ influence,” Professor Denise Réaume told me resignedly. “It’s almost unheard of for someone to make a big money gift that is not targeted in some way. Nobody calls up a university and says, “Here’s $20 million, now go do good stuff with it”.
For this University of Toronto (UT) law professor as well as for Vincent Wong, a Toronto lawyer and former lecturer at the university’s law school, Exhibit A for undue donor influence is not the expected perk of naming of a building – as it is in so many American colleges and universities which have accepted gifts with strings attached from foundations such as Charles Koch Foundation.
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There may not be a more dangerous “reform” for law enforcement than the ending of qualified immunity for America’s heroes behind the badge. In a sense, the lie that qualified immunity protects bad cops from being held accountable is illogical. But the misinformed idea has nonetheless gained some momentum as agencies and politicians across America have either removed qualified immunity or are working towards doing so.
To the uneducated, it sounds like a great thing to do until you recognize it’s a complete scam. First, police qualified immunity was deliberated and approved by the United Supreme Court. And despite routine challenges, the court has upheld qualified immunity time and time again, and for good reason.
Classify Ugly People As Disabled And Entitle Them to All Rights of the Disabled
Daniel Hamermes, Author, A Little Ugly, Will He Qualify?
On August 27, 2011, Daniel S. Hamermesh, a professor of economics at the University of Texas, Austin, author of “Beauty Pays,” published this month, wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times about the need for affirmative action rules for ugly people. It is an implausible theory he can use to make money and get published in the NY Times.
His article spans the usual platitudes about good looking people landing the better jobs, leaving the ugly out in the cold. I guess if he worked in some of the jobs I have, he’d have to re-write his article. There were plenty of ugly, nice, talented people who performed well in their jobs.
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