April 30, 2012

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My Old School

From Wikipedia: Cornell University was founded on April 27, 1865 as the result of a New York State Senate bill that named the university as the state's land grant institution. Senator Ezra Cornell offered his farm in Ithaca, New York as a site and $500,000 of his personal fortune as an initial endowment.

Dragon Day is an annual event at Cornell University. It occurs on the Friday before the university's Spring Break, in mid-March. The center of the event is the procession of a dragon, created by first-year architecture students at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, past the College of Engineering and into the Arts Quad. There it customarily was burned amidst shouts and dancing.

During the second half of the 1980s, several incidents of violence between engineering and architecture students were associated with Dragon Day. Beginning in 1986, several attempts were made to channel engineers' frustrations into more creative outlets. In 1986, in the middle of the cold war, a group of civil engineering students prepared a mock ICBM which they carried in an effort to ram the dragon as it passed by the engineering quad. They were immediately stopped short by architects protecting their creation ;-)

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BI Comment Response Chart

From Business Insider comment:


Conservative View on Apr 27, 11:01 AM said:

Or maybe government spending shouldn't be included in GDP?
Consider that EVERY DOLLAR the government spends comes from two sources:
(a) taxes, which has a negative effect on GDP (a dollar taken in tax is a dollar less you can spend)
or
(b) debt, which really just pulls forward any GDP valuation (we'll add $1 to GDP today by subtracting $1.25 down the line).
I'd be interested to see what historical GDP data looks like with the governmental removed.

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From Calculated Risk: Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2012 (that is, from the fourth quarter to the first quarter), according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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