University and the Net are mutually foundational. The future of each depends upon the other. They are connected, like a function:

f(u)=n
F(N)=U

University’s role in the Net is to develop, propagate and perpetuate into the future its capacity for generating knowledge. We are a knowledge-making machine with human parts. University embodies our fundamental norms of quality, curiosity, generation and preservation of knowledge. We are students. We are scholars. We are alumni who have come to see the core idea. We are University. By expressing ourself in the Net, University becomes the Net, University is the Net.

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Universities are grounds for the propagation of truth and useful information (Harvard's motto, after all, is Veritas). The Net is grounds for the propagation of often false, misleading, and biased information. The connection between the Net and University is not currently strong but can assuredly move in that direction in the future.