Professors Behaving Badly:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/o...ol-left-region
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
How the Republicans' Tax Plan Threatens Higher Ed
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...tens-higher-ed
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
I think in the next decade you’ll see a big shift academically with BYU. Keep in mind that BYU-I was lead by Bednar and the large expansion of BYU Pathways.
BYU is a tough school to get in now, but much of that has come in the last two decades. I had no issue being accepted 22 years ago (for the record I never seriously considered it - I was hellbent on going to Utah and staying instate, my high school counselor insisted I apply to three schools so I did Utah, Westminster and BYU - laughing about the BYU notion). I was a pretty good student, but not great. Now kids with 4.0s good ACT scores and extracurricular activities up the wazzoo are getting turned down.
My point being, BYU wasn’t that great not too long ago, and was an outright embarrassment to go to in my dad’s era. I think the quality of the BYU satellites will pick up and two decades from now BYU-I will be a respectable place to attend.
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I'm not sure what the obvious reasons are. I think all members of the church live with the security of a welfare safety net. It's like insurance, and everyone sits that that table.
Anyway, in the non-financial side, for some nonsensical reason, you can't sit at the temple worker table if you have facial hair. Just dumb.
Even hard-core conservative thinker George Will doesn't like the tax on endowments:
The GOP Tax Bill’s Disconcerting Raid on University Endowments
A little-noticed provision would tax America’s elite universities to help fund the federal government’s operations. There’s nothing conservative about that.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...R5PM%20Actives
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
“Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.” -- Harry S. Truman
"You never soar so high as when you stoop down to help a child or an animal." -- Jewish Proverb
"Three-time Pro Bowler Eric Weddle the most versatile, and maybe most intelligent, safety in the game." -- SI, 9/7/15, p. 107.
Way to go, Cards!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/o...nion&smtyp=cur
According to the Stanford economist Raj Chetty, the top 38 private colleges today enroll more students from the top 1 percent of the nation’s income spectrum than from the bottom 60 percent.
It was President Hinckley who said that Temple workers must meet full-time missionary hair and grooming standards. The Los Angeles Temple president, a few years ago, decided that even members who are assisting in youth baptisms must meet those standards. As a result, our 75 year old Bishop, who had a mustache, could not go into the font and officiate in that ordinance. Neither could I, for the same reason. It was pretty ridiculous. I checked with my general authority friend who was at the time over the temple department and he said there was no such church wide rule. That temple President was a former Marine, so I wrote that incident off to his individual interpretation.
Last edited by LA Ute; 11-10-2017 at 01:32 PM.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
These Universities Benefit From an Offshore Tax Loophole
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The...ampaignId=7158A New York Times report on Wednesday describes how some universities use “blocker corporations” — a loophole that effectively uses a middleman based in a low- or no-tax destination, like the Cayman Islands — to avoid paying taxes on the income....
“They’re not cheating. They’re not hiding money or disguising money,” Samuel Brunson, a law professor at Loyola University Chicago, told the Times. “But they’re adding money to a system that allows people, if they want to hide their money, to do it.”
Seems like it’s not so much “the Rich“ who benefit from our tax system, but the investor class.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
So, the Gap Year . . .
I'm encountering more and more young people who take a gap year after college but before graduate/professional school, or full-time employment.
(There are plenty of folks who take a gap year after high school, but I'm in Utah and lots of kids go on missions with similar effect.)
On the one hand, I like the idea of people trying different things before signing up for the rest of their lives.
On the other hand, I've seen several recent college grads slip back and become less committed and less competitive when they try to take the LSAT or something. Also, a Gap Year sometimes slides into two or three Gap Years.
Thoughts in favor or against?
σοφῷ ἀνδρὶ Ἑλλὰς πάντα.
-- Flavius Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.35.2.