US universities infested with spies.

vienna · 04-09-12, 08:13 PM

Not really new; way back in the 80s, I worked on a student class registration automation project at USC. Almost all the foreign students were registering for classes in the sciences (physics, math, engineereing, etc.), while the "native-born" were registering in MBA business type classes, humanities, etc. Very few of the U.S. students were taking the sciences. The foreign students were mainly from Asia (China, Japan, S. Korea, etc.), the Middle East, and the Near East, notably Iran. The thought did occur to me at the time that the balance in innovation would pass from the U.S. to other nations and we were on a path to being a nation of bean counters and service industry. It would be interesting to find out just where all those physicists and engineers now designing the Iranian nuclear program got their education. Did we give them the tools to cause us so much grief?...

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04-09-12, 08:13 PM	#2
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,720 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Not really new; way back in the 80s, I worked on a student class registration automation project at USC. Almost all the foreign students were registering for classes in the sciences (physics, math, engineereing, etc.), while the "native-born" were registering in MBA business type classes, humanities, etc. Very few of the U.S. students were taking the sciences. The foreign students were mainly from Asia (China, Japan, S. Korea, etc.), the Middle East, and the Near East, notably Iran. The thought did occur to me at the time that the balance in innovation would pass from the U.S. to other nations and we were on a path to being a nation of bean counters and service industry. It would be interesting to find out just where all those physicists and engineers now designing the Iranian nuclear program got their education. Did we give them the tools to cause us so much grief?... ... __________________ __________________________________________________ __