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And if winflop and others are concerned that conservative voices are no longer welcome on campus, do not worry. The Hoover Institution is stronger than it has ever been.  Stanford has now helped grow Hoover's endowment to over $750M (bigger than the endowments of many colleges). It is currently run by Stanford's former provost and has an annual budget of almost $80M. Its fellows include Stanford law professors and faculty members from many other departments.  Many Hoover affiliates played major roles in the Trump administration, including National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.  Hoover's facilities are in the center of campus (right next to the Quad) and have grown with sparkling new research buildings and lecture halls added in recent years. They regularly host high profile conservative speakers and others on campus without incident.

Please don't try to politicize my words. I'd be just as pissed off if a liberal speaker had been shouted down by conservative students (not that this would happen at Stanford). This is about opposition to hearing opinions that differ from their own and an unwillingness to engage in civil discourse - mainly by the administration but also the students.

It's also one of many issues I've had over the last few years that have nothing to do with politics. It's about Drell & MTL paying lip service to increasing mental health resources in the wake of Katie Meyer's suicide. It's about Muir's failure to have sufficient controls in place to scrutinize a half-million dollar donation to the friggin sailing program by people who'd never donated to Stanford before. It's about the stupid misguided decision to eliminate 11 varsity sports without even exploring the opportunity to fundraise from the athletics donor base, and then saying it's a done deal and nothing can be done to change it. It's about the abject failure to provide constitutional due process rights to students accused of sexual misconduct. It's about a Board of Trustees that didn't tell MTL that he needs to take a leave of absence while they investigate serious allegations of academic misconduct. And on and on. I think every one of the issues has caused Stanford significant embarassment, and to my knowledge there have been no consequences for any of them.

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And if winflop and others are concerned that conservative voices are no longer welcome on campus, do not worry. The Hoover Institution is stronger than it has ever been.  Stanford has now helped grow Hoover's endowment to over $750M (bigger than the endowments of many colleges). It is currently run by Stanford's former provost and has an annual budget of almost $80M. Its fellows include Stanford law professors and faculty members from many other departments.  Many Hoover affiliates played major roles in the Trump administration, including National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.  Hoover's facilities are in the center of campus (right next to the Quad) and have grown with sparkling new research buildings and lecture halls added in recent years. They regularly host high profile conservative speakers and others on campus without incident.

Please don't try to politicize my words. I'd be just as pissed off if a liberal speaker had been shouted down by conservative students (not that this would happen at Stanford). This is about opposition to hearing opinions that differ from their own and an unwillingness to engage in civil discourse - mainly by the administration but also the students.

It's also one of many issues I've had over the last few years that have nothing to do with politics. It's about Drell & MTL paying lip service to increasing mental health resources in the wake of Katie Meyer's suicide. It's about Muir's failure to have sufficient controls in place to scrutinize a half-million dollar donation to the friggin sailing program by people who'd never donated to Stanford before. It's about the stupid misguided decision to eliminate 11 varsity sports without even exploring the opportunity to fundraise from the athletics donor base, and then saying it's a done deal and nothing can be done to change it. It's about the abject failure to provide constitutional due process rights to students accused of sexual misconduct. It's about a Board of Trustees that didn't tell MTL that he needs to take a leave of absence while they investigate serious allegations of academic misconduct. And on and on. I think every one of the issues has caused Stanford significant embarassment, and to my knowledge there have been no consequences for any of them.