Reply #6: Its true that there was a lot of military research in the 60s, but there was also a lot...

[arendt]

of non-military research then, too. A lot of good research on pollution, safety, longevity, etc.

Today, that non-military research is either gone or funded by corporations (effectively privatized).

Universities today are just another money-making machine, ripping off students with outrageous fees while stiffing junior faculty and sweatshopping the day labor. You see more of the crap like Cal Poly setting up a "no women allowed" medical school in ?Kuwait?. Anything to make a buck. To hell with the tradition of standing up to the powers that be and telling the truth.

arendt