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Message: [QUOTE="azfan, post: 3911871, member: 7748"] There is money to be had at Stanford. The [URL='https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/22/stanford-releases-annual-financial-results-investment-return-endowment-2/#:~:text=The%20value%20of%20the%20university%27s,close%20of%20Stanford%27s%20fiscal%20year.']university’s endowment grew [/URL]by 4.5% in a fiscal year that included the first half of the pandemic, to almost $30 billion. It certainly has grown by even more in the past six months. The rich have gotten richer in the pandemic. As that unfolded in San Antonio, more Stanford-related drama was taking place in St. Louis, where Shane Griffith advanced to a final of the the NCAA wrestling championships. Wrestling is one of the 11 sports that Stanford abruptly announced last summer that it would [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annkillion/article/National-successes-aside-all-is-not-right-with-16044891.php[/URL] Those attributes of integrity and accountability that Stanford holds dear are examined in the new Netflix documentary “[URL='https://www.netflix.com/title/81130691']Operation Varsity Blues.[/URL]” Stanford does not come out looking great. The documentary was, according to those with knowledge, damning enough that a university attorney addressed it at a recent annual athletic department meeting. [/QUOTE]