<p>But it hardly matters. State funding only accounts for a minority of Berkeley’s income nowadays, and if Berkeley can rake in half of what Harvard rakes in it wouldn’t need state funding at all. My point is, I don’t see a change in funding cuts to the UC system anytime soon, so we should focus on 1. private funding and 2. alumni donations, and also that we spend the money wisely and efficiently.</p>
<p>But I agree that school spirit is loosely related. For example, Columbia probably does a lot worse than Berkeley when it comes to school spirit, but still has a much larger endowment. With such issues multiple causation is always present in some form.</p>