Why UVA?

I just posted Teresa Sullivan's Saga at the University of Virginia (UVA), together with the Milky Way Gas Collision paper by A. Loeb et al.. One is not about Astronomy and the other is. Why?

I announced several days ago that the focus of the blog is Astronomy now. Nevertheless the UVA issue is close to what I believe Astronomy can be relevant to. Why study Astronomy?

Thomas Jefferson, started a tradition of what a university should be in the US. Besides the day to day concerns of business and farms, a country has to develop culture, otherwise why should there be  a university, anyway? In those days, I believe the religious education of people was also a concern, not just money.

The current  US experience has the 1% facing the 99%. There is a small group of financiers, without education nor culture, that appropriated a big chunk of the National Treasure. If the likes of Teresa Sullivan and Elizabeth Warren, do not stop these thieves, there won't be any Astronomy in the United States of America.