"Mr. Epstein reaped the benefits of smarts by association in hanging around them, of the reputation cleanse of affiliation with Harvard professors and a former Treasury secretary..."

"Again and again, scholarly types lower themselves to offer previews of their research or inquiries into Mr. Epstein’s “ideas.” “Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation,” muses Joscha Bach, a German cognitive scientist."

"The smart need money; the rich want to seem smart; the staid seek adjacency to what Mr. Summers called “life among the lucrative and louche”; and Mr. Epstein needed to wash his name using blue-chip people who could be forgiving about infractions against the less powerful."

Did Robert Hayden have any influence there?

I wonder what their cash glow situation is.

Awful.

I have gotten informal guidance this year from different venues and organizers. People are on edge.

Awful./
Did they send this list to you as part of a contract or MOU?

3) Relatively few COLO staff come from IT backgrounds.

4) Campuses report being underprepared to teach online.