{"id":119868,"date":"2024-01-30T23:51:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T23:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/hedge-fund-billionaire-ken-griffin-who-recently-donated-300-million-to-harvard-says-its-now-full-of-whiny-snowflakes-and-his-checkbook-is-closed\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T23:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T23:51:15","slug":"hedge-fund-billionaire-ken-griffin-who-recently-donated-300-million-to-harvard-says-its-now-full-of-whiny-snowflakes-and-his-checkbook-is-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/hedge-fund-billionaire-ken-griffin-who-recently-donated-300-million-to-harvard-says-its-now-full-of-whiny-snowflakes-and-his-checkbook-is-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Billionaire Ken Griffin, Who Recently Donated $300 Million to Harvard, Says It\u2019s Now Full of \u201cWhiny Snowflakes\u201d and His Checkbook Is Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Last April, as in simply 9 months in the past, hedge fund billionaire <strong>Ken Griffin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2023\/04\/kenneth-c-griffin-makes-gift-of-300-million-to-fas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> a staggering $300 million to Harvard University, the college he graduated from in 1989. At the time, Griffin known as the college a \u201cgreat institution,\u201d saying Harvard was \u201ccommitted to advancing ideas that will shape humanity\u2019s future, while providing important insight into our past.\u201d But fast-forward 9 months, and the college, in response to Griffin, has gone utterly off the rails; its college students have turn into \u201cwhiny snowflakes,\u201d he says, and he desires nothing to do with the place until it shapes up.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a convention in Miami on Tuesday, Griffin, who has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/profiles\/kenneth-c-griffin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">internet price of $36.8 billion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/30\/money\/harvard-ken-griffin-halts-donations\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> \u201cAmerica\u2019s elite universities\u201d are \u201clost in the wilderness of microaggressions [and] a DEI agenda that seems to have no real endgame.\u201d He added that they&#8217;re overrun with \u201cyoung men and women who are just caught up in the rhetoric of oppressor and oppressee, and \u2018this is not fair,\u2019 and frankly just, like, whiny snowflakes.\u201d When requested the place he stood on giving Harvard extra money, he declared: \u201cUntil Harvard makes it very clear that they\u2019re going to resume their role [of] educating young American men and women to be leaders, to be problem solvers, to take on difficult issues, I\u2019m not interested in supporting the institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd jyISiS hloGrW\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content material<\/h4>\n<p>This content material can be considered on the positioning it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sfmcguire79\/status\/1752383160195883507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd jyISiS joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Griffin has given greater than $500 million to the college in complete, and after final yr\u2019s nine-figure reward, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was renamed the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in his honor. Griffin has not stated if he&#8217;ll ask for his title to be eliminated in protest of the college having apparently misplaced its means.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Griffin isn&#8217;t the one Harvard donor to quickly shut his checkbook to the college in current months. 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