| ▲ | Maken 2 hours ago | |||||||||||||
Who cares? The entire university was named after the first guy who handed them money. It's their oldest tradition. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | t0mpr1c3 an hour ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
IIRC Carnegie was the original archetype of the rapacious union-busting wage-suppressing monopolistic billionaire robber baron, and Mellon was all that plus a corrupt self-dealing all-but-impeached laissez-faire Treasury-secretary-cum-megabanker whose deflationary and protectionist response to the Wall Street Crash caused unemployment and destitution on a historic scale. But yeah this Griffin guy could give the place a bad name. (Full disclosure, I did a postdoc at the SCS.) | ||||||||||||||
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