<p>Yes, members of the DuPont family have been involved in many philanthropic activities, including funding a major children’s hospital in Wilmington and in Florida.</p>
<p>Give the OP a break. There is some sound history in her discomfort (Children’s Hospitals or not):</p>
<p>[Dupont</a> - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism](<a href=“http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/dupont.html]Dupont”>Dupont - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism)</p>
<p>what sevmom said: Could be this, maybe not, why not ask and find out?</p>
<p>Jessie Ball duPont Scholarship
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<p>[Our</a> History](<a href=“http://www.dupontfund.org/about/history/]Our”>http://www.dupontfund.org/about/history/) <== this is a good read</p>
<p>I give the OP credit for scrutinizing the source of funds, rather than simply blindly accepting the money. Colbert did a funny piece just the other night where he was trying to force his Superpac sponsorship on a couple of Occupy Wallstreet folks. They politely refused his money. </p>
<p>To suggest that the OP is ethically challenged is really off the mark.</p>
<p>Hanford, Manhattan Project, all kinds of chemical weapontry</p>
<p>Whatever the exact source of the funds (the company itself or the trusts of one of the family members), the OP can turn the money down if it is a major concern. I don’t believe we have heard back whether or not she called financial aid to clarify the exact source of the funds. If the student is a 4th year, the funds for this semester would have already been disbursed so there should really be only one semester left that need funding .</p>
<p>Winning war, not speaking German/Japanese. Whatever. I don’t really care what the OP does. It won’t matter to anyone else.</p>
<p>@NJres,</p>
<p>“To suggest that the OP is ethically challenged is really off the mark.”</p>
<p>Yes, I do think OP is ethically challenged. OP took the Dupont money for 3 years already while maligning the company, and now is fishing for feedback from us that she is virtuous because she intends to pursue enlightened science, unlike her evil benefactor.</p>
<p>GM - she took it one year and you made your point - which others negated. Now move along and leave the college student alone. </p>
<p>In my book, she is virtuous, because Du Pont has a very shady history, of which she is aware and you aren’t.</p>
<p>I think the DuPont money has only kicked in for the 4th year. At most, the OP seems to have accepted the DuPont money for this semester only. I don’t really see the OP as unethical and she can certainly question the source of funding ( and decide if she wants to accept money from that source)but some of the posts have come across with a sense of entitlement and lack of gratitude. That seems to be more of what alot of posters have been reacting to . Hopefully, the OP has contacted financial aid and gotten answers to her concerns.</p>
<p>Du ponts involvement with Manhattan Project and Hanford and weapontry was not mentioned as a plus. They have a bunch of antitrust violations and all kinds of questionable products.</p>
<p>oh please, these corporations subsidize college students for a tax write off and to steal ideas.</p>
<p>Maybe to you. Most large companies run into anti-trust issues at times. Tech firms are fighting them all the time. Nature of business. All large companies push the envelope. Many are competing with offshore companies with fewer restrictions. Grow up.</p>
<p>"oh please, these corporations subsidize college students for a tax write off and to steal ideas. "</p>
<p>Yes, these corporations are duplicitous to the core, just ask the Occupy Wall Street crowd.</p>
<p>and don’t forget the family member who is a convicted murderer.</p>
<p>[Dupont</a> - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism](<a href=“http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/dupont.html]Dupont”>Dupont - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism)</p>
<p>In case you missed mini’s link - some of it may not be true, but enough of it is, and plenty is missing.</p>
<p>Good grief, is that the best you can come up?.. Consider the source of the article. It’s written by some anti-war group called COAT, which, from the looks of their website, looks to be to the far left of the NYTimes.</p>
<p>GMT#76 - you are welcome to do your own research - I agree it will be better than what is linked in this thread.</p>
<p>My main point was to leave the college kid alone - you made your point. You don’t need to repeatedly bully any poster. We all have the “right” to question anything - this isn’t China.</p>
<p>I wonder how many police lives have been saved because of DuPont’s Kevlar?</p>
<p>Doesn’t UVA have a Darden School of Business or something like that? Dardens are DuPont cousins so that larger family must have many ties to UVA.</p>
<p>Not that I disagree with the OP, but imagine if all the donated money was put in one pot, every student receiving a grant would get at least some of the DuPont money, whether it was corporate or family (which are intertwined anyway). It’s just a bit tacky of the university to suddenly name it this year and not the others, as if they are pandering to the corporate money-god. </p>
<p>I’m old enough to remember when even major sports arenas had no tacky corporate sounding name, and worse, didn’t have that tacky name change every year or two making us rearrange our thinking and our street signs (is it the MCI center or the Verizon center already?). Pretty soon the OP will be the recipient of the Taco Bell - Nextel - Billy Bob Thornton - Round Up Ready student grant. And she’ll have to accept that grant money without even a twitch of the lip or ironic brow lift unless she wants to be bullied mercilessly here on CC for not being properly grateful. I say make her wear a suit emblazoned with the logos of her corporate sponsors, like the race car drivers do, just to keep it all clear who’s giving what. The school buildings and chancellors should be covered too. Wouldn’t that look nice at graduation?</p>
<p>Just being a bit facetious here, but I would like politicians to wear those suits.</p>
<h1>78 good for them for inventing the Kevlar vests, since their original fortune came from the invention of gun powder!</h1>