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<p>No? So tell me, which hosts that famous conservative think tank The Hoover Institution? Is that at Stanford or Harvard?</p>
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<p>True enough, but it’s one more arena in which partisans of various schools can compete with each other on CC. “My school has more Nobels!” Oh yeah, well my school has more Rhodes, so take that!" In reality the strength of the football team has nothing to do with a school’s actual quality either, but it’s yet another way to compete and brag.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say that The Hoover Institution’s conservative nature reflects the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates’ opinions.</p>
<p>For starters, Herbert Hoover was an awful president. And so was Woodrow Wilson. I just can’t understand Stanford and Princeton’s fascination with the two, respectively.</p>
<p>^^Well, for that matter Harvard has Adams House and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. All of these are just schools honoring celebrated alumni who went on to be president. And Woodrow Wilson was not only an alum but a former president of Princeton.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t surprise me to some day see the Barack Obama School of (something) at Columbia.</p>
<p>And the point I was making about the Hoover Institution is not that it was named after a lousy president. It’s name doesn’t really matter. The point is that the school has decided to host a very right wing think tank. Suggesting that, at least in political matters, it is rather more conservative than Harvard.</p>
<p>Well, I guess that’s true.</p>
<p>But then again, this is California we’re talking about, one of the most liberal states in the nation. ;)</p>
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<p>Tell me first, who founded the Roosevelt Institution: “the first student-run policy research group or “think tank” in the United States [as] a counterpoint to the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford”? Were they Stanford students or Harvard students?</p>
<p>[Roosevelt</a> Institution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Institution]Roosevelt”>Roosevelt Institute Campus Network - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>^^The Roosevelt Institution was founded by some Yale and Stanford students. Too bad that the conservative Stanford University gave the Hoover Institution an 85 year head start. It’s also too bad that zero Stanford students are currently on the Staff or Student Advisory Board of the Roosevelt Institution. I guess their devotion to its liberal principles and activities wasn’t that deep or long-lasting. And oh yeah, Harvard has a chapter of the Roosevelt Institution. It does not have a chapter of the Hoover Institution.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.rooseveltcampusnetwork.org/about-us/board-directors[/url]”>http://www.rooseveltcampusnetwork.org/about-us/board-directors</a>
[Staff</a> | Roosevelt Campus Network](<a href=“http://www.rooseveltcampusnetwork.org/about-us/staff]Staff”>http://www.rooseveltcampusnetwork.org/about-us/staff)</p>
<p>Datalook: The performance ranking is huge weight to quality of the output: Average citation per paper, H-Index papers and Number of articles in high impact journal. It looks into short term and long term productivity. Most of the professors I talked to think that this ranking is the best. The next best objective rankings are funding from various funding agencies. But that will limit the ranking to US universities. The only drawback for the performance ranking is that it is not normalized by the number of faculties. I also like to point out that Stanford has a lot more faculty than 2000 because medical center stream faculties are not counted, but their publications are counted as Stanford production.</p>
<p>Datalook: The performance ranking is huge weight to quality of the output: Average citation per paper, H-Index papers and Number of articles in high impact journal. It looks into short term and long term productivity. Most of the professors I talked to think that this ranking is the best. The next best objective rankings are funding from various funding agencies. But that will limit the ranking to US universities. The only drawback for the performance ranking is that it is not normalized by the number of faculties. I also like to point out that Stanford has a lot more faculty members than 2000 because medical center stream faculties are not counted, but their publications are counted as Stanford production.</p>
<p>This is my last post in this forum. We are discussing something way distracted away from the OP request.</p>
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<p>Too bad 99% of Stanford students and faculty have never stepped foot inside Hoover Tower. If Herbert Hoover had been a Democrat, Stanford would have just as gladly hosted his brainchild.</p>
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<p>Just another example of Harvard following Stanford’s lead.</p>
<p>“Too bad 99% of Stanford students and faculty have never stepped foot inside Hoover Tower.”</p>
<p>This can’t possibly be true, because admissions tours of the campus typically include a trip up Hoover Tower. I can’t believe that 99% of Stanford students never went on an admissions tour.</p>
<p>“99%” is a figure of speech. Fwiw, I never went on a tour. I arrived at Stanford sight unseen.</p>
<p>News flash: you can actually go to the top of Hoover Tower to enjoy the spectacular view of Stanford and the surrounding area, <em>without</em> subscribing to a conservative viewpoint! </p>
<p>This thread really has become pretty silly at this point–I suspect the OP stopped reading some time ago. He or she will soon be at Stanford’s Admit Weekend, and see it first-hand.</p>
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<p>Freudian slip! ;)</p>