Berkeley gets $40 million from donor, Hong Kong Protest previous donation
Cal Patroit Blog has some information
on Li Ka-shing, who is donating $40 million dollars for a new medical research center.
Medical students are planning to wear their white coats during Friday’s march to protest against the renaming of Hong Kong University’s faculty of medicine.
The outcry comes after the university council decided last month to name the faculty after billionaire tycoon Li Ka-shing, following his pledge to donate HK$1 billion…
I wonder how those students would take having a department named after a donor.
Just so everyone knows, HK$1 billion is equivalent to about US$100 million.
Comment by Anonymous — June 28, 2005 @ 9:17 pm
Finally, Berkeley gets a major donation.
However, it’s earmarked for research (yet again). Will someone please pony up for new residence halls or a new career center or something else to fundamentally improve the undergraduate experience?
Comment by Bhanu Singh — June 29, 2005 @ 5:30 pm
The forty million is going towards building a Research Facility where Warren Hall currently stands, you dolt.
Comment by Anonymous — June 29, 2005 @ 7:34 pm
Uh, yeah. How does that contradict what I said?
Comment by Bhanu Singh — June 29, 2005 @ 8:08 pm
It’s going to go rebuild a seismically unsafe building on this campus, outfitting it with the latest classrooms and laboratories. How is that research? You need facilities whether it’s teaching, learning, or research.
How does this not improve the undergraduate experience? IB/MCB/PH majors should be thrilled about getting new classrooms and lab space. Or are you a liberal arts majors who bitches about a career center because the best you can do out of college is 30k a year? Unless you go into law, of course.
Comment by Anonymous — June 29, 2005 @ 8:38 pm
Again, you proved my point. While the new building has teaching facilities, it really only impacts a fraction of the undergraduate student body. Get out of Berkeley and you’ll realize that the Career Center lags way behind other top universities.
You also might want to work on that attitude, buddy.
Comment by Bhanu Singh — June 29, 2005 @ 9:42 pm
It’s also free money.
Comment by B.A.D. — June 29, 2005 @ 9:50 pm
Hey Anonymous, here’s something to consider. All BA’s get paid $30,000 a year crap. It doesn’t matter what you get your BA in. It’s the “B” in BA that matters.
Comment by a$$hole — June 30, 2005 @ 4:25 pm
I take that back. Go ahead and get your science BA without going to grad school. Don’t come crying back to those of us in humanities that go on to graduate school or law school and make more than twice your paycheck. Boo hoo hoo
Comment by a$$hole — June 30, 2005 @ 4:28 pm
Because all humanities go to law school. A top 10 law school at that, because that’s where the moneys at. And no, a law degree from CSU Bakersfield wont get you 6 figures a year.
Also ignoring the fact, of course, that a higher percentage of non-liberal arts majors go on to Grad School than do liberal arts majors.
Comment by Anonymous — June 30, 2005 @ 7:17 pm
Anonymous: What law school at BSU Bakersfield are you talking about?
Comment by Anonymous2 — July 1, 2005 @ 7:12 pm