"The time has come for students to connect the dots between ballooning student debt, the poor treatment of campus workers, and the obscene wealth of hedge fund oligarchs."

A rallying cry for a divestment movement to oppose hedge funds and their involvement with academia, the article discusses the relatively new relationship between universities and high risk investing. Not only are money managers – and often university trustees – making off with obscene profits, the finance industry has actively lobbied against policies "designed to curb inequality."

For more on the implications and ramifications of academia's historically-unprecedented flirtations with finance, check out these links:

• Reinier de Graaf: "The western architectural ivory tower has become a theatre of the absurd"
• Can the new College Ratings System help improve architectural education?
• Student loan default rates don't tell the whole story
• The State of Debt and the Price of Architecture
• The State of Debt and the Price of Architecture #2
• 7 Lessons from the 3rd International Architectural Education Summit

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