This seems short sighted. We as a society know that research, sometimes "obviously" useless research, is a necessity. We used to finance research through corporate taxes, leading to Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research and others. We moved that effort to universities. We made our universities attractive to the best minds in the world, they are a jewel in the US' metaphorical crown.<p>Why throw that out? This is about the alleged liberalness of universities, isn't it?