Mystery donor keeps giving to woman-run colleges

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2009-04-23 00:10

Story here. Excerpt:

'The mystery college donor has struck again — this time at Binghamton University in New York, whose financial aid office phone started ringing off the hook as word of an anonymous $6 million contribution spread across campus.

Binghamton is the latest of at least a dozen universities to receive donations totaling more than $60 million in recent weeks. The gifts have arrived with the same, highly unusual stipulation: not only must the donor must remain anonymous, but not even the college can know who it is or try to find out.

The recipient colleges seem to have almost nothing in common except this: so far, all are led by women.'

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Businesses of all kinds run by women can get subsidies from the gov't (read: taxpayers) for that reason alone. This is just an example of the sexism that is publicly institutionalized being propagated by private (presumably) parties as well. You see it in campaigns for donations of all kinds, too.

Really, when I think about it, this is just business as usual. It's the anonymity part that has the press talking, that's all.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2009-04-23 15:51

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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2009-04-23 22:15