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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:39:36 -0500
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Ralf, you must be joking?
Jutta
At 11:30 PM 1/29/03 -0500, Ralf Kubli wrote:
>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.
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>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
Jutta Loeffler, MD
Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis
The Rockefeller University
Box 172
1230 York Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10021
Tel (212) 327 8165
Fax (212) 327 7584
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