Nathan Kalman-Lamb: This is what Columbia now looks like.

This is what Columbia now looks like.

soon the metamorphosis will be complete and a giant hedge fund will emerge from its cocoon, free of all this larval-stage baggage like students and professors and classes

I'm sure they've considered it but as I understand it right now instead of investors who expect a return plus their investment back, they have donors who expect them merely to run a university So I guess they can't risk turning off the free money pipeline, even when the side hustle is annoying

true. (though this hurdle can be surmounted with a successful athletics program, of course.)

The marketplace of ideas

Where ideas go to die.

Truth.

Probably more like where ideas go to prison… we’re looking at a generation of Gramscis

add the TARU drone car on 116th.

it would be absolutely terrible if someone threw a molotov at that vehicle. just a tragedy.

think it would be fun to see it roll backwards down the hill and flip over into the hudson

fair, that's much less dangerous to innocent bystanders + no noxious fumes. just have to find a way to drain the fluids first.

little coral reef-like habitat for the hudson fishies and friends 🐟🦀

Hmmmm. Yes yes, it Seems like just the place to send my 18 year old to learn, grow, and develop an appreciation for the human achievement.

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