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Dr Dre removes university boast post about daughter
- Thread starter Dalek
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Bribery is illegal by definition.
If it's legal, you're just paying for a service.
The scandal is about people who cheated on standardized tests and paid under the table to pretend to be sports recruits. Giving a legal donation 6 years before your kid applies to that school isn't even in the same ballpark.
He's further entrenching a system that keeps PoC down. He doesn't get a pass because he's a black.
Unless there's a rider about how need-based kids need to make up a significant number in the program, I'm not impressed.
Doesn't make my statement untrue and we're talking about the most competitive schools in the country, if not the world and not some podunk school in the Midwest.
That's because it's easy to make hot takes about how great all that money is without knowing what and how things are paid for.
Pretty much.
Also how can anyone be so dense as to think a 70 million dollar donation to a school before your kid applies isn't going to guarantee admission regardless of how awful their grades are?
People starving in the streets, peeps homeless in the streets, hold my beer let me donate 70 millions to a very rich University.
Fucking billionaires and their warped philanthropy. A fucking disgrace.
Fucking billionaires and their warped philanthropy. A fucking disgrace.
I think there is something very different from donating to a school versus literally paying for your daughter to get accepted into the school. And no, they aren't the same thing.
I'm blown away Dre has 70 mil liquid that he can toss around like he's donating a couple hundred to his kids local Little League. Damn
The optimists in me says that sometimes people want to make a difference, and find a local organization/charity they believe in and donate. A lot of people who find success often donate to their college. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he lives near USC or has connections to the school. There have been rich people that donate because some colleges are doing research in an area that is promising.
However, the schools that least need that kind of help are the ones that constantly receive record breaking donations. I'm sure a donation of that magnitude opens the doors to a very special network of people that can help you in business and other endeavors.
And that was a year before he sold his headphone company to apple for 3 Billion.
Don't really care. If you donate that much to an institution, a lot more people than your own kid is going to benefit. She can do whatever she wants.
I mean, what should universities do? Turn down 70 mill or turn down admission to one student ? Not encouraging behavior but the system is broken. Maybe if we funded out institutions better this wouldn't be an issue..
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This seems a bit unfair. He donated to the money 6 years ago, to create a very specific music program. Why are we assuming that his daughter did not deserve to be accepted to the college? It's possible that his donation had an impact, but it's also possible that she deserve to get in regardless.
USC is a private university.
Ftfy... don't confuse the word 'donate' in this article to mean anything other than bribing officials cause even if they somehow didn't pocket any of that 70 million themselves, it certainly comes around from any improvements made to the school.
Honestly, she probably could have gotten in on her own. And I can't be mad at a man that's proud of his daughter and decided to flex a bit.
For anyone curious, here's an article from USC when the donation was made in 2013
https://news.usc.edu/50816/jimmy-iovine-and-dr-dre-give-70-million-to-create-new-academy-at-usc/
Donating to create a new program while his daughter hadn't even started high school isn't any-fucking-where close to what those other assholes did.
https://news.usc.edu/50816/jimmy-iovine-and-dr-dre-give-70-million-to-create-new-academy-at-usc/
Donating to create a new program while his daughter hadn't even started high school isn't any-fucking-where close to what those other assholes did.
Theoretically, I have no problem with what Dre did in comparison to the celebrities that bribed. If he donated $70m for this program, that should assist at least hundreds...possibly thousands of other students as opposed to Lori Laughlin just lining the pockets of some con artist.
Of course, after listening to Malcolm Gladwell's episode of Revisionist History about what private, elite universities ACTUALLY do with these donations...that $70 mil is probably just sitting in their endowment waiting for upper management to give themselves raises! Good times!
Of course, after listening to Malcolm Gladwell's episode of Revisionist History about what private, elite universities ACTUALLY do with these donations...that $70 mil is probably just sitting in their endowment waiting for upper management to give themselves raises! Good times!
One other thing to note is that just a couple of years ago he donated 10 million to Compton High School. I remember there was an editorial in the LA Times lamenting the fact that he gave all that money to USC when they have a lot of money already, and that same author wrote a follow up article when the Compton High donation was announced:
https://medium.com/@HipHopPrez/i-think-dr-dre-heard-me-dc02cf4a4ab9
Around the same time he said all proceeds of his Compton album was going to fund an art center in Compton.
Also the money he and Iovine gave to USC was earmarked for a brand new program, so it's not like sitting in the administration's pocket or something.
https://medium.com/@HipHopPrez/i-think-dr-dre-heard-me-dc02cf4a4ab9
Around the same time he said all proceeds of his Compton album was going to fund an art center in Compton.
Also the money he and Iovine gave to USC was earmarked for a brand new program, so it's not like sitting in the administration's pocket or something.
I'm not faulting a university for taking donations from people, but $70 million, to USC of all places, seems a bit excessive. But I'm also ignorant on what all that money went towards to, so I think I was just caught off guard by the amount that he contributed. Either way, I guess if it helped out the students and school in a meaningful way, then no harm done.
I think its the part where he specifically brags 'My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own. No jail time!!!". That's kinda a douche move regardless, to do it when there is some chance that his donation impacted her chance of admission is even worse. Just keep quiet and don't embarrass your kid man. Now the entire public knows about her and the $70 million donation when we wouldn't have given two shits otherwise.
As someone who had their university paid for by a scholarship, I'm all for letting one girl in for a 70mil donation. That stuff changes peoples lives.
