[FRIAM] Friam Today

[Frank Wimberly]

That makes sense.  Harvard has $40 billion endowment last I heard.
Facebook has a market cap much greater than that.

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 5:19 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> Factoid:  Facebook has the 45th ranked supercomputer in the world, above
> Harvard and even the Atomic Weapons Establishment of the United Kingdom.
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> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Frank Wimberly <
> wimberly3 at gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Date: *Friday, September 14, 2018 at 5:03 PM
> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Friam Today
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> Nick,
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> Good essay by Bruni.
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> My wife, who went to Harvard (as you know, Nick), was made physically ill
> by the theme in The Social Network of the rich kids lording it over others
> because of their weekend trips to the Hamptons or Newport for coming out
> parties.
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> Frank
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> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 1:59 PM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
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> Hi, Frank,
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> Yes.  That’s an exciting bit of news.  I have no “inside information”
> about what is going on, but inferring from my experience at Clark
> University, St. Johns taking on the almost universal practice of stating
> notional “sticker prices” which only the wealthiest students pay and which
> help to pay the tuitions of their less fortunate colleagues.   I am
> ambivalent about it, myself, since the practice Incorporates the fact that
> for rich people to get any education worth its salt, there HAVE to be poor
> people around them.  Nothing poisons the mind so thoroughly as living
> amongst unseemly wealth.  Talk about “entitlement”.  Yuck!
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> On the other hand, for institutions of higher education, devoted after all
> to the pursuit of truth, to base their tuition structure on a lie, is also
> icky, so I applaud the experiment.  St. Johns apparently feels that this
> policy will get them an even more balanced student body than the practice
> of overstating tuition costs to include scholarship costs.  Making tuition
> costs more honest will go a long way to challenging the exaggeration of
> higher education inflation, which comes largely from accommodating rich
> students in the style to which they are accustomed so that enough of them
> will apply to pay for the poorer ones.  (Apparently, the Umass dining hall
> is now serving sushi!)
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> Frank Bruni wrote
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/opinion/contrarian-college-stjohns.html>
> about the change in the NYT.  In less than 24 hours, 1200 comments
> accumulated, a few mindless, but many interested.  They are still available
> at the link above, or I scraped the site and put them in a word file,
> above.
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> See you in three weeks,
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank
> Wimberly
> *Sent:* Friday, September 14, 2018 1:34 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Friam Today
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> There were only four of us at Friam today.  Three of us got there early
> and the fourth walked.  Also the coffee shop was full of students. This was
> apparently all because of a presentation by the College administration
> about St. John's new tuition policy in which the tuition is being reduced
> by tens of thousands of dollars per year.  The parking lot was virtually
> full by the time I got there at about 8:45.  I assume it was lack of
> parking that caused such low attendance.  I hope to see you New Mexico
> Friam members next week.
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> Frank
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