Berkshire Hathaway vice-chair (and literal gremlin; based on his picture)...
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...Charles Munger dangled $200,000,000 for a new hall bearing his name to the school; but only if they agreed to make the student housing to his nightmarish vision.
The complex has windowless rooms for the purpose of cramming more students in per square-inch.
When challenged on this, he kept bringing up Disney cruise ships and artificial windows; along with children hating to share bedrooms.
An architect, Dennis McFadden, quit over this.
Munger stands firm on yanking the funding if the school refuses his design.
Archive Links:
https://archive.md/YS9M0 - CBC Radio Interview with gremlin.
https://archive.md/9CuYi - Santa Barbara Independent article on Munger dorm.
https://archive.md/Knz0f - LA Times OP Ed calling it a prison.
https://archive.md/MIOZk - CNN Business article on windowless dorms.
Beelzebub 4 points 3.5 years ago
He's offering 200M for the building and only the building, which will cost at least 1B to build. He's offering to pull 20% from something no one wants, not to mention it's on extremely valuable land. UCSB is on a plateau overlooking the pacific, and the university does not have much land left to build on.
Any sane person would prefer that 800M go to something that is not doomed to fail. These "educated" administrators can't be bothered with basic economic principles like sunk costs.
And if anyone is wondering why the jew, Charles Munger, chose UCSB to torture undergraduates, it's because UCSB has one of the lowest non-European populations (one of the reasons I chose to go there for my physics bachelor's).