Why does financial aid prosper while the endowment starves?
A specter is haunting CMU. You can see it in the hazy air, smell it on the crusty Entropy sign, feel it on the shadeless Mall. It’s a modern-day tragedy. The poor are killing our endowment.
Andrew Carnegie laid down the endowment’s first million dollars himself. From the very …
Rules are for fools
I saw Nasreddin walking from Doherty to Hammerschlag by way of Flagstaff Hill. “Nasreddin,” I said, “That route’s way too long. You should just go through Wean.” “Exactly, everyone will be taking the shortcut.”
One day, Nasreddin saw a sign on the Cut: KEEP OFF GRASS. He picked …
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