US universities ‘should have blocked’ Jeffrey Epstein donations

Or we could end the whole zero-sum game of academics having to spend hours in fruitless applications (the absurdly low success rate of ca. 5% makes it in fact a negative-sum game) by making more funding and time available for research from the university / government itself. Research grants/time to come automatically with seniority plus some for aspiring junior researchers. When food is scarce, people will eat dirt - even Epsteinian dirt.

Money, no matter it’s genre has same allure inside or outside the ivory tower; there are needs and takers on both sides of the thin wall Basil Jide fadipe