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Friday, June 1, 2012

Moguls

The historically minded might have looked at the headline above in the LA Times today and thought it had to do with increased admissions of international students: http://www.asianartmall.com/mogulempire.htm
But no, it was a different kind of mogul's kid.

Not clear there is a story here.  The mogul in question is hip-hop singer Sean Diddy Combs, sometimes known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy. At one time, he performed with a rap group known as "Diddy-Dirty Money" that recorded on a label called "Bad Boy Records."  (The Times did not make an issue of that.)

Anyway, his son got a football scholarship to UCLA, which is what the story is about.  Such scholarships are paid out of non-state funds.

I guess the question is: Diddy get special treatment?:



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1 comment:

  1. EvanJune 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM

    This "controversy" has been ridiculous. He is by all accounts a good student and athlete, as deserving of an athletics scholarship as any other football recruit.

    Now, whether Sean Combs is comfortable with his son accepting a scholarship, when he could easily pay for tuition, is another story. But still...his son is by no means the first child of a wealthy family to be given and accept an athletic scholarship. Where was the outrage in these other cases?

    Diddy could do a lot of good by making a donation of equal or greater value to his son's scholarship to the UCLA Fund.

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