【正文】 ht justify an exception. However, cultureby which I chiefly mean the fine 8 artshas always depended primarily on the patronage of private individuals and businesses, and not on the government. The Medicis, a powerful banking family of Renaissance Italy, supported artists Michelangelo and Raphael. During the 20th Century the primary source of cultural support were private foundations established by industrial magnates Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller and Getty. And tomorrow cultural support will e from our new technology and media mogulsincluding the likes of Ted Turner and Bill Gates. In short, philanthropy is alive and well today, and so government need not intervene to ensure that our cultural traditions are preserved and promoted. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the speaker unfairly suggests that large cities serve as the primary breeding ground and sanctuaries for a nation39。s preeminent art, architecture, and music. But bigcity culture has little to do any more with one nation39。s cultural traditions。s purpose. One pelling argument in favor of a global university has to do with the fact that its faculty and students would bring diverse cultural and educational perspectives to the problems they seek to solve. It seems to me that nations can only benefit from a global university where students learn ways in which other nations address certain soda] problemssuccessfully or not. It might be tempting to think that an overly diversified academic munity would impede munication among students and faculty. However, in my view any such concerns are unwarranted, especially considering the growing awareness of other peoples and cultures which the mass media, and especially the Inter, have created. Moreover, many basic principles used to solve enduring social problems know no national boundaries。s attempts during the 1920s to not only control the direction and the goals of its scientists39。s administrators are careful to remain openminded about the legitimacy and potential value of various avenues of intellectual inquiry and research, a global university might go along way toward solving many of the world39。s natives. In my observation we humans have a basic psychological need for individual identity, which we define by way of our membership in distinct cultural groups. A culture defines itself in various waysby its unique traditions, r。s lesserknown languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak 10 them. The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from being extinct. The speaker asserts that governments of countries where lesserknown languages are spoken should intervene to prevent these languages from being extinct. I agree inso far as a country39。s preeminent intellectual talent might be drawn to the sorts of problems to which the university is charged with solving, while parochial social problem go unsolved. While this is not reason enough not to establish a global university, it nevertheless is a concern that university administrators and participant nations must be aware of in allocating resources and intellectual talent. To sum up, given the increasingly global nature or the world39。s rainforests can set into motion a chain of animal 9 extinction that threatens the delicate balance upon which all animalsincluding humansdepend. Also consider that a financial crisisor a political crisis or natural disaster in one country can spell trouble for foreign panies, many of which are now multinational in that they rely on the labor forces, equipment, and raw materials of other nations. Environmental, economic, and political problems such as these all carry grave social consequencesincreased crime, unemployment, insurrection, hunger, and so forth. Solving these problems requires global cooperationwhich a global university can facilitate. Notwithstanding the foregoing reasons why a global university would help solve many of our most pressing social problems, the establishment of such a university poses certain problems of its own which must be addressed in order that the university can achieve its objectives. First, participant nations would need to overe a myriad of administrative and political impediments. All nations would need to agree on which problems demand the university39。s most persistent social problems. I agree that it would serve the interests of all nations to establish a global university for the purpose of solving the world39。 accordingly, by assisting large cities a government is actually helping to create a global culture as well to subsidize the traditions of other nations39。s distinct cultural traditionsits folk art, crafts, traditional songs, customs and 6 ceremoniesburgeon instead in small towns and rural regions. Admittedly, our cities do serve as our centers for high art。s claim is actually threefold: (1) ensuring the survival of large cities and, in turn, that of cultural traditions, is a proper function of government。 and legitimately so, since immediate disclosure would have served no useful purpose and might even have resulted in mass hysteria. Having recognized that withholding informarion from the public is often necessary to serve the interests of that public, legitimate political leadership nevertheless requires forthrightness with the citizenry as to the leader39。 thus I think this view is realistic. Another reason why I essentially agree with the speaker is that fully disclosing to the public certain types of information would threaten public safety and perhaps even national security. For example, if the President were to disclose the government39。s subjective state of mind, impressions, or reflections of an event or experience. Indeed, to the extent that personal interpretation adds dimension and richness to the record, written