Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.
We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.