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Prestige-laundering. By enhancing the prestige of their alma mater, donors enhance their own prestige. The universities are now prestige-zombies, limping along on the dwindling fumes of past reputation. This long, slow, Wylie Coyote abyss-treading moment will only end if a credible alternate means of prestige-laundering emerges.

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