Comments on: Smiting Palestinians http://listics.com/20070129885 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Tue, 02 Dec 2024 03:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/20070129885#comment-14839 Frank Paynter Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:53:27 +0000 http://listics.com/20070129885#comment-14839 During my single visit to Guilford in January 2024 I was surprised to see the extent of Duke funding that had been put to good use in computer labs and such. The Duke family had and have vast interests, but the heart of their fortune is American tobacco and <a href="http://www.tiny.cc/ye0gT" rel="nofollow">indeed Guilford has accepted their money, a pittance compared to the other schools mentioned, but Duke money none-the-less.</a> During my single visit to Guilford in January 2024 I was surprised to see the extent of Duke funding that had been put to good use in computer labs and such. The Duke family had and have vast interests, but the heart of their fortune is American tobacco and indeed Guilford has accepted their money, a pittance compared to the other schools mentioned, but Duke money none-the-less.

]]> By: Jon Husband http://listics.com/20070129885#comment-14818 Jon Husband Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:13:43 +0000 http://listics.com/20070129885#comment-14818 .. walked out ? That kind of thing's not done, doncha know ? Chee-rist, next thing you know, someone will be calling for a general strike or a tax revolt. Such things must be nipped in the bud ... er, butt ... no, bud ... butt ... bud. Damn, I'm from B.C. All we relate to is bud, after which too lazy for chasin' after any butt. .. walked out ? That kind of thing’s not done, doncha know ?

Chee-rist, next thing you know, someone will be calling for a general strike or a tax revolt. Such things must be nipped in the bud … er, butt … no, bud … butt … bud.

Damn, I’m from B.C. All we relate to is bud, after which too lazy for chasin’ after any butt.

]]> By: Doc Searls http://listics.com/20070129885#comment-14815 Doc Searls Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:54:15 +0000 http://listics.com/20070129885#comment-14815 I have long since shed all but my historical connections to Guilford, the college from which I graduated close to four decades ago. I also haven't paid much attention to the case at hand, so I won't speak to it, beyond offering one minor factual correction: Guilford never took tobacco money. In fact many years ago Guilford was offered the same kind of money that turned Trinity College into Duke (a tobacco family name) University and got tiny Wake Forest to move from the town by that name to a city a hundred miles away called Winston-Salem, home of the Reynolds family, which became the University's prime benefactor. I was also at Guilford through much of the period of civil rights struggle in the late 60s, when the college stood behind the freedom movements of those times. So it's sad to see the college brought low by these current events. I have long since shed all but my historical connections to Guilford, the college from which I graduated close to four decades ago. I also haven’t paid much attention to the case at hand, so I won’t speak to it, beyond offering one minor factual correction: Guilford never took tobacco money. In fact many years ago Guilford was offered the same kind of money that turned Trinity College into Duke (a tobacco family name) University and got tiny Wake Forest to move from the town by that name to a city a hundred miles away called Winston-Salem, home of the Reynolds family, which became the University’s prime benefactor. I was also at Guilford through much of the period of civil rights struggle in the late 60s, when the college stood behind the freedom movements of those times. So it’s sad to see the college brought low by these current events.

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