Over on the Facebook group set up to protest the firing of Joel Kovel, a
former Bard professor who had run afoul of Leon Botstein cautioned that
not much could be done unless sufficient “muscle” was applied on the
Board of Trustees. If that is the case, then I doubt anything can be
done since the most powerful figures on the board (or who serve in an ex
officio status like George Soros) are Wall Street hedge fund operators
who are constitutionally incapable of responding to the wishes of Bard
students and professors. The sad fact is that despite the halo that
surrounds academia, they are run more and more nowadays as capitalist
enterprises. And if you are going to run your college like a capitalist
enterprise, who better to serve on a board than hedge fund operators?
The chairman of Bard’s board of trustees is one Charles P. Stevenson
Jr., a Yale graduate in the hedge fund business who lavished millions of
dollars to establish a new library at Bard called appropriately enough
the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library. For some reason, these hedge fund
cowboys have a thing for libraries. Last year the New York Public
Library renamed its main library the Stephen A. Schwarzman Library in
return for his contribution of $100 million to its $1 billion capital
fund drive.
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others/
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