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Re: eastcoast: [SHARE] Discussion with Charles Kleiber and pdts of ETHZ/EPFL and 3 other Swiss Universities - FEB . 14 - 6PM

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Re: eastcoast: [SHARE] Discussion with Charles Kleiber and pdts of ETHZ/EPFL and 3 other Swiss Universities - FEB . 14 - 6PM

From: Ralf Kubli <click for textversion of email address >
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:30:05 -0500

Can't be there, unfortunately. But maybe when you talk to them, you guys can
convince them to finally cut their subsidies in Agriculture and invest more
in research that yields some return in the future.

As some of you may know, for the money spent for some projects in cheese
bacteria and potato improvements, we could create a lot of assistant prof
and tenure positions.
Second, to the University Presidents you may raise the point of their
sprawling bureaucracies and inefficient operations, which absorb a lot of
resources that could be used otherwise (ETHZ/UNIZH labs together, Chemistry,
biology, etc. only at ETH and not seven times the same across Switzerland),
and consolidation of their institutes and "seminars" that are spread all
over town (such as in Zurich). No reason why operational improvements and
efficient operations should interfere with academic freedom, which they
frequently cite when savings need to be implemented.

Ralf Kubli

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