PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on October 05, 2025, 08:22:14 AM
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I think people are now beginning to realize how worthless Ivy League degrees are. Exorbitant tuition, leftist ideologue professors and courses that offer degrees with no real world value.
And even in the degree fields that do have value, time and time again when dealing with these degree holders I have found out they are no better, and in many cases worse than someone who graduated from a state college system.
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I agree that the education value of "elite" universities is not any better than state schools. However, the value of these universities comes from associating with the children of very rich and powerful people and making valuable contacts. It's not the education, but access to those in the upper echelons. Sky high tuition provides the barrier to entry.
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I agree that the education value of "elite" universities is not any better than state schools. However, the value of these universities comes from associating with the children of very rich and powerful people and making valuable contacts. It's not the education, but access to those in the upper echelons. Sky high tuition provides the barrier to entry.
Yep. But then we have our government funding these scam institutions while they sit on enormous endowments.
And then look at some of the people that were paid huge salaries to "teach" at these places. Yet another joke. Seriously, could you imagine sitting through a class with something like Elizabeth Warren teaching? Or Paul Krugman?
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/hunting-rats-in-brookline.php
Hunting rats in Brookline
I wouldn’t be aware of the story of visiting Harvard Law professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea if it weren’t for the post below on X. It’s almost unbelievable and the gist of it is in fact disputed by the perpetrator.
Professor Gouvea denies he did anything wrong. He contends that he was “hunting rats” with the pellet gun. Depending on what he means by “rats,” however, his statement might be inculpatory.
According to the Harvard Crimson, synagogue leaders have bought Professor Gouvea’s account. An email blast from the temple’s president and executive director states that “from what we were initially told by police, the individual was unaware that he lived next to, and was shooting his BB gun next to, a synagogue or that it was a religious holiday.”
The Washington Free Beacon’s Jessica Schwalb reports the story in “Harvard Law Professor, a Founding Member of Think Tank That Drove Gun Control in Brazil, On Leave After Firing Pellet Gun Near Synagogue During Yom Kippur.” The subhead adds the inevitable detail: “Carlos Portugal Gouvea also serves as diversity commission president at the University of São Paulo Law School.”
The New York Post’s Andrea Peyser displays a cynical attitude toward Professor Gouvea’s story in her column “Harvard needs to answer for ‘hunting rats’ prof who shot near a synagogue.” I take it that the incident unfolded during the Yom Kippur Kol Nidre service at Brookline’s Temple Beth Zion this past Wednesday evening. Two private security guards working at the temple confronted Gouvea after hearing two shots and spotting him holding the pellet rifle.
As the guards approached Professor Gouvea, a “brief physical struggle” ensued. Professor Gouvea then ran into his nearby residence before coming out moments later. He was handcuffed by police and arrested. Officers later found a shattered car window with a pellet lodged in the vehicle.
According to Peyser, Professor Gouvea was arraigned the following day in Brookline District Court, charged with illegally discharging a pellet gun, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and malicious damage of personal property. He pleaded not guilty and was released on his own recognizance.
A Harvard Law spokesman told both the Free Beacon and the Post that it has placed Professor Gouvea “on administrative leave as the school seeks to learn more about this matter.” The Free Beacon story adds poignant details about what students are missing in his absence:
Gouvea is teaching two courses at Harvard this fall: one called “Sustainable Capitalism” and another on “corruption and inequality.” When he started at the Ivy League university in 2022, he taught a corporate ethics class centering on “the social efforts to increase racial and gender diversity in companies, and the progress and backlash in the fight against corruption.”
Perhaps Professor Vagistan can fill in for Professor Gouvea while Harvard looks into the facts. The Free Beacon notes, as usual: “Gouvea did not respond to a request for comment.”
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Yep. But then we have our government funding these scam institutions while they sit on enormous endowments.
And then look at some of the people that were paid huge salaries to "teach" at these places. Yet another joke. Seriously, could you imagine sitting through a class with something like Elizabeth Warren teaching? Or Paul Krugman?
Totally agree with idiot celebrities being paid to "teach". It's nothing but payback. Like paying hundreds of thousands for a Clinton to speak for 15 minutes at a conference. That pay comes from donors, laundered through the university.
The endowments shed interest that is used to pay chaired professors. That's one way to attract the best researchers and teachers. Generally the endowment base is locked up and cannot be touched. The government funding is usually research grants like NSF grants for specific projects. Much of the research is silly feel good sociological research. But there is cancer research, space research, and other research in the hard sciences that's pretty real. It makes sense to have top academics getting grants to do the hard research. So yeah, let's screen the research and see what's actually going to benefit humanity and get rid of the stupid stuff.
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I went to an Ivy for grad school a looooong time ago. I saw it going to crap back then. It's much, much worse now.
Their quarterly magazine gets tossed in the trash. Usually I peak at the cover and it's always some far left propaganda.
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Mine was a Presbyterian university. Excellent academically when I went. But yes, the alumni magazine gets trashed. Same with my husband and his University of Washington alumni magazine. Both schools used to be pretty common sense. We’ve watched the woke spiral rev up to ridiculous levels the last 30 years. Sad. We had these schools in our wills but no more.