Billionaire Ken Griffin, who donated more than $500 million to Harvard University, called Harvard students “whining snowflakes” and stopped donating, saying the Ivy League school had woken up its values. said.
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Griffin, founder and CEO of hedge fund Citadel, told a conference audience in Miami on Tuesday that he believes Harvard is “lost in the wilderness.” CBS News reported.
“Are we going to educate future congressmen and senators and the leaders of IBM? Or are we going to educate a group of young men and women who are caught up in the rhetoric of the oppressors and the oppressed? And, ‘This isn’t fair.’ And, frankly, a whining snowflake?” Griffin said at the Managed Funds Association meeting, according to News Network. “Where is elite education in American schools headed?”
CBS News, citing the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, said Griffin is worth about $37 billion, making him the 35th richest person in the world.
The news network added that Harvard University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This was the latest round of bad news for elite educational institutions in recent months. The situation worsened after multiple student groups at Harvard University claimed that Israel was “fully responsible” for the deadly Hamas attack endured by the Jewish people on October 7th. That seemed to set off a downward spiral:
- Days later, the Wexner Foundation severed ties with Harvard University, accusing it of failing to condemn Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel.
- About a month after the terrorist attack, then-Harvard University President Claudine Gay finally denounced the popular left-wing protest chant, “From the Rivers to the Sea,” which essentially calls for the removal of Israel.
- In early December, Bill Ackman, a billionaire Harvard graduate, blamed gays for a spike in anti-Semitism on campus.
- A few days later, during a Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) was asked whether calls for the slaughter of Jews on campus violated school policy, and Gay said: I was confused. Gay’s reaction infuriated Harvard Hillel, a Jewish group at Ivy League universities.
- In mid-December, it was reported that Harvard University excluded Jews from its identity-based graduation ceremony.
- Mr. Gay finally resigned by early January as the plagiarism scandal worsened. Nevertheless, she called herself a victim of “racial hostility.”
- Days later, Ackman slammed his alma mater for its “fundamentally flawed and racist ideology” of diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Apparently undeterred, it was reported this month that pro-Palestinian faculty members at Harvard University have formed a group to criticize the “ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
- Also in January, four senior research scientists appointed to the Harvard Medical School faculty were accused of manipulating data in some of their published studies, still reeling from gay resignations. The university, which is in the midst of a pandemic, has suffered a further blow.
- If that wasn’t enough, a complaint filed with Harvard University on Monday suggests that the school’s chief diversity and inclusion officer may have also plagiarized some of her academic work.
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