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Sorry but why are all these uni’s so against protesting to end a genocide?
Isnt learning to better ourselfs the goal of uni…Im sorry i almost pissed myself laughing…. No mostly for football and money. Still tho..
While UChicago is home of the first Heisman Trophy winner and was a founding member of the Big 10 conference, football is definitely not what the Maroons are known for.
Because their endowments have massive amounts of money tied up in Israeli stocks and bonds.
Source?
I highly doubt university endowments are heavily leveraged in such a small sector of the global economy. That would be recklessly undiversified for any portfolio and, well, stupid.
However, I would not be surprised if a significant number of their wealthy donors got mad about the protests. A lot of elites seem to have put their blinders on after October 7 and divorced themselves from the current reality on the ground.