Should P. Diddy's son return his scholarship money?

[Astoria]

Hmm well I guess it depends on the family's attitude towards it. If they'd made a deal where he had to pay for his own college education then he definitely should keep it. If he was gonna get it paid for him anyway he probably should give the money back but still keep his place because he has worked for it. That money could go to helping someone else go to college as well, it just seems like the decent thing to do.

 

[chadachada123]

He's free to keep the money. He did earn it, after all.

However, I think it would be far, far more moral for him to willingly give up the money, since he definitely doesn't need it. Give it to someone that could greatly benefit from it, like one/several of the hundreds of thousands of other kids that are trying to pay for college/university.

In short, it's his, but if he wants to look like a decent guy, he should donate it.

 

[FamoFunk]

Why shouldn't be earn things for himself and work hard at things for himself just because his Father is famous and rich?

People saying he should give the money back would be the first to complain he's scrounging off his Dad's fortune and making nothing for himself.

 

[likalaruku]

It's like a 2 sided coin. On one side his parents could more than afford it & the idea of poor people's tax money sending a rich boy to school is revolting. On the other side he has the grades & maybe he doesn't want his parents pampering him. Personally, I associate scholarships & grants with financially needy people & colleges are bloodsucking leeches when it comes to money. College was always supposed to be the last thing your parents paid for you before you became independent.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

That is an interesting question. I can see where the naysayers are coming from, that in light of familial wealth, the scholarship fund could be used elsewhere. While true, it's also irrelevant. It's NOT a means-tested scholarship (ie. a scholarship for those with low income), it is a merit based scholarship.

The report says he worked hard and was granted the scholarship based on his genuine achievement and merits. Thus he is entitled to that scholarship and it is quite right for him to be awarded it.

To put it in another light, I could set up a scholarship fund tomorrow (or at least I could had I the money) for any purpose I chose. I could specify it to help only mature students with children studying engineering, dumb students who want to learn a science, a black or chinese girl who joins the horse riding team, and so on.

A scholarship fund is money set aside for a purpose and can be applied for by any who might meet the criteria, and in this case, the student did. Familial wealth is completely irrelevant. If he wanted to be even more awesome tho, he could pass on it, but accepting it is perfectly his right.

 

[Darren716]

He should be able to keep it since he busted his balls to earn the grades thathe got and be a top tier football player so he should be able to keep what he rightfully earned.

 

[crazyarms33]

I don't think people who are arguing that he should turn in a scholarship know what a scholarship is. A scholarship is NOT financial aid in its true sense. Instead it as a reward for proven excellence in either:
A.) Athletics
B.) Academics
C.) Fine Arts(depending on the school)

These scholarships are determined based on MERIT, not by financial income of the household. If you were filling out a FAFSA or something, then yes, it plays a roll. However if you have two kids applying for one scholarship, and Kid A has a billionaire dad and a 4.0 GPA while Kid B's dad is a steel mill worker and has a 3.4 GPA, then obviously based on GPA, Kid A deserves the scholarship.



Also the type of scholarship he got, the school WENT TO HIM with the offer of a free education. This is not something a group of people applied for and the school picked him because of his dad. The football program wants him to play football for them because they think he can benefit their team. You can argue academics over athletics are more important, and I would agree with you, but this is an ATHLETIC scholarship that he busted his ass for. Why should he give it up?

It seems pretty damned simple to me, but I may be missing something?

 

[Smeatza]

The boy earned it fair an square.
The fact his father is rich and greedy is neither here nor there.

 

[Flames66]

I don't think he "should", he is not required to in any way. I do think it would be a nice gesture if he did.

 

[somonels]

This is the difference between america and the more 'socialist' countries of the EU.

USA: Kid earned it, he should get it.
Europe: Well, yeah, but he would be able to go there regardless, this just means someone probably isn't going to go there.
USA: Your point?
Europe: You give money to those who earn it, we try to give it to those who earn and need it.
USA: And we are great because of it!
Europe: Umm, i guess that wraps it up.

wow, that was horrible >_>

 

[Cavan]

This is the difference between america and the more 'socialist' countries of the EU.

USA: Kid earned it, he should get it.
Europe: Well, yeah, but he would be able to go there regardless, this just means someone probably isn't going to go there.
USA: Your point?
Europe: You give money to those who earn it, we try to give it to those who earn and need it.
USA: And we are great because of it!
Europe: Umm, i guess that wraps it up.

Not sure if serious...really not sure.

If am serious be worried for you.

 

[iAmNothing]

I think he should keep the money, after all it's not P Diddy's son who's rich; it's P Diddy

I guess I'm from what you might call a 'well off' family, but I know for one that if I ever asked my parents for a large sum of money such as 54K there is no way in hell that they would just hand it over straight away. Although that's not to say that everyone would be in that same situation

 

[somonels]

This is the difference between america and the more 'socialist' countries of the EU.

USA: Kid earned it, he should get it.
Europe: Well, yeah, but he would be able to go there regardless, this just means someone probably isn't going to go there.
USA: Your point?
Europe: You give money to those who earn it, we try to give it to those who earn and need it.
USA: And we are great because of it!
Europe: Umm, i guess that wraps it up.

Not sure if serious...really not sure.

If am serious be worried for you.

I am also worried about me, but xplain your reasoning.

 

[ElPatron]

I hate using this word, but are you people feeling "entitled" to that money?

"hurr durr hurr I study hard and nobody gibes me monheis please I report you"

Scholarships are for students in need of financial assistance

The purpose of a scholarship should be to get people in who actually need financial help. It's not as if they really did anything worth $50k. The whole idea of a scholarship isn't really that you're earning the money, what you do really isn't worth the money you get. The whole idea should be to help students who need it. He doesn't.

NOPE.avi

It was not granted by the state, it was granted for merit. If other people were after the scholarship maybe they should have tried to be better at sports than the actual winner.

I.E. the associations who raised the money are after the best players they can get and are willing to pay them a scholarship to have them working for them.

When I get my college diploma I am not giving my jobs to unqualified people just because they are poor. Sorry if that is selfish, but a highschool drop-out trying to be an engineer might get people killed.

And I'm sure the athletics department is entirely self-funded.

Only fucked up countries actually pay to athletic federations that have enough revenue to exist on their own. Like in Europe.

Somehow I doubt places with low taxes like the US are dumping money into associations with millions of revenue trough ads alone.

This is the difference between america and the more 'socialist' countries of the EU.

I already agree with you just because you said "socialist".

This is the difference between the United States and Europe: if you shoot an intruder in Europe everyone will go all "Oh my God, why didn't you just sit in a corner and kept quiet, he probably didn't want to harm you, he is only leeching of the taxpayer's money during the day and stealing the plasma screen you worked hard to get, but that doesn't matter because he was probably poor and he is entitled to your money and the things you have worked for even though he is a parasite who doesn't contribute to society!"

If you kill the intruder with a baseball bat (takes a lot more brutality) nobody cares.

"Europe: everyone is entitled to what you have worked for!"

 

[4173]

He should be under no obligation, but it may be in his best interest to return it anyway. If he returns the money, UCLA can then use it to recruit someone else they otherwise couldn't.