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Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

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  1. wrs · · focus · HN ↗
    I’m a CMU SCS alum (actually I predate SCS being a full school). Please, someone make me feel better about this. They’re renaming the school after this person.
    1. method_capital · · focus · HN ↗
      Sure. It's $3B for your school. Who gives a shit what names the buildings have on them. I'll never understand you whiners.

      $2B for new Miami campus (could have been in NYC, but well ...) $1B - split w $500M for CS Dept - for Pittsburg campus

      "CMU Miami will invert the traditional higher education model by organizing learning and inquiry around societal challenges rather than academic majors. It will be entirely designed and built — from first blueprints to final beam — to drive revolutionary breakthroughs that address society’s defining challenges."

      1. BoggleOhYeah · · focus · HN ↗
        If anything, it could have been in Chicago but Kenny ran to Miami after spending a small fortune trying to install another puppet in the Illinois governor’s office after his previous one, Bruce Rauner, ran the state into the gutter.
        1. alephnerd · · focus · HN ↗
          Ken played a role in bringing the UIUC CS program to Chicago which itself is a major feeder into Citadel. Citadel was one of the founding partners for City Scholars [0] along with DRW and Ocient.

          [0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cityscholars.grainger.illinois.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cityscholars.grainger.illinois.edu&#x2F;

          1. shimman · · focus · HN ↗
            Are we suppose to feel good that more bright students are working for deeply undemocratic and anti-human companies? I&#x27;d rather these people do something more productive than helping financiers make slightly more billions of dollars.

            What a complete waste of human capacity if so.

            1. alephnerd · · focus · HN ↗
              That is up to the students and alums of these programs. And many do non-profit and humanitarian work as well.

              The world is competitive. It is what it is.

              To have the power to affect change you need power.

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