【正文】 inesses,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 ofcultural support were private foundations established by industrial magnates Carnegie, Mellon,Rockefeller and Getty. And tomorrow cultural support will e from our new technology andmedia mogulsincluding the likes of Ted Turner and Bill Gates. In short, philanthropy is aliveand well today, and so government need not intervene to ensure that our cultural traditions arepreserved and promoted.Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the speaker unfairly suggests that large cities serveas the primary breeding ground and sanctuaries for a nation39。spreeminent art, architecture, and music. But bigcity culture has little to do any more with onenation39。s cultural traditions。s purpose.One pelling argument in favor of a global university has to do with the fact that its facultyand students would bring diverse cultural and educational perspectives to the problems theyseek to solve. It seems to me that nations can only benefit from a global university wherestudents 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 impedemunication among students and faculty. However, in my view any such concerns areunwarranted, especially considering the growing awareness of other peoples and cultureswhich the mass media, and especially the Internet, have created. Moreover, many basicprinciples 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 itsscientists39。s administrators arecareful to remain openminded about the legitimacy and potential value of various avenues ofintellectual inquiry and research, a global university might go along way toward solving manyof the world39。s natives. In my observation we humans have a basicpsychological need for individual identity, which we define by way of our membership in distinctcultural groups. A culture defines itself in various waysby its unique traditions, rituals, mores,attitudes and beliefs, but especially language. Therefore, when a people39。s lesserknown languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak10them. The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act toprevent such languages from being extinct.The speaker asserts that governments of countries where lesserknown languages arespoken should intervene to prevent these languages from being extinct. I agree inso far asa country39。s preeminent intellectual talent mightbe drawn to the sorts of problems to which the university is charged with solving, whileparochial social problem go unsolved. While this is not reason enough not to establish a globaluniversity, it nevertheless is a concern that university administrators and participant nationsmust 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 animal9extinction that threatens the delicate balance upon which all animalsincludinghumansdepend. Also consider that a financial crisisor a political crisis or natural disasterin one country can spell trouble for foreign panies, many of which are now multinational inthat they rely on the labor forces, equipment, and raw materials of other nations.Environmental, economic, and political problems such as these all carry grave socialconsequencesincreased crime, unemployment, insurrection, hunger, and so forth. Solvingthese problems requires global cooperationwhich a global university can facilitate.Notwithstanding the foregoing reasons why a global university would help solve many of ourmost pressing social problems, the establishment of such a university poses certain problemsof 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 politicalimpediments. 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 thepurpose of solving the world39。accordingly, by assisting large cities a government is actually helping to create a global cultureas well to subsidize the traditions of other nations39。s distinct cultural traditionsits folk art, crafts, traditional songs, customs andceremoniesburgeon instead in small towns and rural regions. Admittedly, our cities do serveas 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。 andlegitimately so, since immediate disclosure would have served no useful purpose and mighteven have resulted in mass hysteria.Having recognized that withholding informarion from the public is often necessary to servethe interests of that public, legitimate political leadership nevertheless requires forthrightnesswith 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 publiccertain 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 anevent or experience. Indeed, to the extent that personal interpretation adds dimension andrichness to the record, written documentation is actually more important than video.Finally, a video record is of no use in documenting statistical or other quantitative information.R