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The Brown Institute for Brain Science in Rhode Island is getting a $100 million donation, and a name change:
A Brown alum has donated $100 million to advance brain science and help find cures for ALS and Alzheimer's diseases.
The gift is from Robert J. Carney and his wife, Nancy D. Carney. He is a 1961 Brown graduate and a long-serving university trustee. The gift will change the name of the Brown Institute for Brain Science to the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science.
Also at The Boston Globe.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @03:01AM (3 children)
Can we go back to the tacitly understood convention that we do not name things after people, even if they give us shit tons of money, until they are dead? Does human Vanity know no bounds? What is next? Trump is going to donate his billions to CUNY, if they change their name to "Trump University"? There are still some things money cannot buy, even if these things are not Donald, Facebook, or Stormy.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 20 2018, @03:11AM (1 child)
The sports world is even worse. San Diego had it's Jack Murphy stadium named after the man who raised the money for it. Then it became Qualcomm stadium because some rich Jew threw some money at it. Then you have Mattress Firm (formerly known as Sleep Train) Amphitheater, named after a mattress dealer and where loud bands like Metallica and Nine Inch Nails play. Then Staples center where the Lakers, Clippers, and Kings play. All that just in Southern California.
Come to think of it, naming things after people is pretty dignified compared to, say, The Pfizer Endowment for Accidental Priapism Research.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @08:15AM
In Sacramento. A fucking credit union blowing its wad on regional advertising. Needless to say my family have been moving money away from them over this and other stupid policy/staffing choices at their organization.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 21 2018, @01:22AM
I'm trying to think what century that could have been? Not coming up with any ideas. The virtue signaling arms race is one way to part the wealth from the wealthy. Just not seeing the problem here.