[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Oops--Stanford University president can't answer interview question

[Mitchell I. Wolfe]

Miss America contestants would give better answers...

-- Mitch

On 2024-12-06 17:40, Michael Alexander via LCTG wrote:

> The President of Stanford has many metaphorical fish to fry in Palo 
> Alto, CA.  He was asked an inappropriate, hence stupid, question, so he 
> responded with a stupid answer.
> 
> - Mike Alexander
> 
> On Friday, December 6, 2024, 4:52 PM, Robert Primak via LCTG 
> <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:
> 
>> -- Bob Primak
>> 
>> On Friday, December 6, 2024 at 03:48:54 PM EST, Ken Pogran via LCTG 
>> <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:
>> 
>> On a lighter note: A friend of mine out in Sunnyvale, CA, who did his 
>> graduate work at Stanford University, shared this with me.
>> 
>> The Stanford Review editor-in-chief conducted a interview [1] with the 
>> university's new president, Jonathan Levin.  Towards the end of the 
>> extensive, wide-ranging Q&A came the following exchange:
>> 
>> Stanford Review: What is the most important problem in the world right 
>> now?
>> 
>> President Levin: There's no answer to that question. There are too 
>> many important problems to give you a single answer.
>> 
>> Stanford Review: That is an application question that we have to 
>> answer to apply here.
>> 
>> Gotcha!
>> 
>> Ken Pogran
>> 
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[1] https://stanfordreview.org/levin-interview/
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