<p>And yet another quick clarification:<br>
When I say it is “ironic” that I have been fighting for years to get my colleagues to admit more foreign students as a matter of justice, I mean that it is ironic because I apparently seem like a xenophobe to some on this thread–which I am reasonably sure that I am not.
I do not mean that it is ironic because it tends to depress our R ranking (although it does).</p>