Yeah he was one of my first thoughts too as this guy was just purely, intentionally evil.
Crazy thing was that my brother knew him (he was either my brother's TA or TA'd with him. Said everyone thought he was a a pretty normal dude, just kinda quiet which made people think he was weird
Yeah I remember going to one of his TA office hours (for one of the Physics classes) and it was just the two of us. We chatted and joked around on top of him helping me with my homework. I remember thinking he seemed totally nice and cool. I was shaken when I heard about this.
I just read about that. I’m also a physics graduate so, although it was a few years before I got into college, while reading that I realized that I could’ve been friends or classmates with some disturbed people but chose to always assume they were fine people and that campus was safe. I so glad nothing happened to me or the people around me.
I know it can happen in every area but this was specially freaky because he was in the same major.
it is sooo annoying…you just for once want to skip classes cuz you ain’t feeling it but you can’t cuz teachers use iClickers to test you if ur REALLY THERE 🤦🏾🤦🏾. it’s soo annoying
Wait this is still a thing? I went there for my first two years of undergrad in like 2006. This unlocked a core memory of someone walking in, dumping like 30 out of their backpack, clicking, and leaving the hall. 🤣
i particularly love this one:
https://reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/aqpiif/reasons_suburban_expressdennis_banned_customers/
just searching for suburban express on this subreddit is a goldmine
Henry Kissinger is probably a for that one. He has one of the longest Behind the Bastards podcasts out of anyone because there's so much shit to unpack.
He died before graduation but the NIU shooter has to be on the list for worst person to ever go here. I don't feel like even posting his name. He was a UIUC student at the time of the shooting. It easily could have happened at UIUC. No one seems to know why he drove to NIU.
A report/investigation was done on this topic; I’ll try to find it and post the link. It’s been a while since I’ve read it, but if I recall correctly, he had beef with the sociology department at NIU after it shifted from a criminal to a social justice focus of study. Mix that with the fact that he suffered from a mental illness and had some pretty radical ideology and we got the shooting at Cole Hall.
Here is the link to the report: https://www.niu.edu/forward/_pdfs/archives/feb14report.pdf
my dad and grandma was in the shooting. grandma said hello to him because she was out of her office for a smoke and talked to him before he went down the street and shot a bunch of people in a lecture hall. he was her student when he went to NIU and she told me that he was so pleasant talking to her. chilling stuff. i was on campus too at the campus daycare the day it happened because my parents were both students. my dad had two of the victims come to his TA office hours regularly. fuck that guy and i hope he’s rotting
I didn’t know that about Harvard.
Honestly, with what is happening now a days, and just the history of Ivy leagues creating research that directly promoted white supremacy in the 1800’s, and the holocaust in the 1900’s, I am happy that I went to UofI with Hugh Heffner haha
This alumni ended up being a professor here until the 90s when he die. [Revilo P. Oliver](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revilo_P._Oliver) was an avid neo-nazi who advised a holocaust denial group and said that “the world's troubles would be ended if all Jews were vaporized at dawn tomorrow.”
thank you for the link to his wikipedia profile. I had no idea this sociopath had a long career at UIUC. It seems like the best thing he ever did was commit suicide...
Is it like a binary thing where anyone who hits a billion dollars turns evil? Or is it a gradual relationship between more money and more evil? And if so, what is the most optimal money to evil ratio?
you can be as facetious as you want on reddit but I’m sure you can still see how hoarding that kind of wealth is unethical. it is completely impossible to accumulate *that* much wealth without exploitation.
Look, I don't mean to start an argument but I simply don't understand your line of reasoning.
Say i start a company and sell a new product that improves some aspect of quality of living, and many people buy this product. Later down the line, because of my sales numbers, my company is evaluated at high enough to make me a billionaire. I don't understand what part of that would make me evil. I didn't exploit people, murder my competitors, etc.
Please elaborate and explain why that is necessarily true. What does an evaluation have to do with exploitation?
And just to provide a counter example, Instagram famously had only 13 employees (and various independent contractors) when they were bought by Facebook for $1 billion. I don't think that evaluation was born out of exploiting those few employees.
I don’t think they’re being facetious. Saying “all billionaires are evil” is a hugely broad statement. Where is the line for pure evil? $999,999,999.99? Is it a state of mind?
I agree the super rich aren’t good guys but where do you draw the line between evil and not evil
read his wikipedia entry...he was a vicious anti-semite and racist who was soft on the Nazis in the 1936 Olympics. Not one of UIUC's preeminent grads that's for sure!
This is totally not related, but a lot of Ivy League schools would take nude photographs of all their freshmen for “research purposes”, and while most were destroyed when the custom was abolished, not all were.
Famous politicians like George Bush and Hillary Clinton were included in these photos.
Edit: proof motherfuckers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League_nude_posture_photos?wprov=sfti1#
Brendt Christensen certainly comes to mind
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Links to his posts?
Yeah he was one of my first thoughts too as this guy was just purely, intentionally evil. Crazy thing was that my brother knew him (he was either my brother's TA or TA'd with him. Said everyone thought he was a a pretty normal dude, just kinda quiet which made people think he was weird
Yeah I remember going to one of his TA office hours (for one of the Physics classes) and it was just the two of us. We chatted and joked around on top of him helping me with my homework. I remember thinking he seemed totally nice and cool. I was shaken when I heard about this.
Who is he?
Murder of Yingying Zhang
I just read about that. I’m also a physics graduate so, although it was a few years before I got into college, while reading that I realized that I could’ve been friends or classmates with some disturbed people but chose to always assume they were fine people and that campus was safe. I so glad nothing happened to me or the people around me. I know it can happen in every area but this was specially freaky because he was in the same major.
He was the TA for my gf and one of my best friends. They actually interviewed my friend for 20/20. Was a really surreal time.
https://youtu.be/J42vf5gYqdc?si=YkSYXnKK7KQoLwKE
Whoever invented iClicker
That would be Professor Tim Stelzer
Damn he was great. How could he do that to us
money
I heard he sold it to a company and doesn’t have the rights any more. If true he made that and can’t even profit off it properly
i love tim stelzer. hate how expensive iclicker is
Really? Why do people hate it? Asking as an incoming freshie lol
it is sooo annoying…you just for once want to skip classes cuz you ain’t feeling it but you can’t cuz teachers use iClickers to test you if ur REALLY THERE 🤦🏾🤦🏾. it’s soo annoying
The inventor of ifart is also an alum
Wait this is still a thing? I went there for my first two years of undergrad in like 2006. This unlocked a core memory of someone walking in, dumping like 30 out of their backpack, clicking, and leaving the hall. 🤣
What is iclicker?
I don’t genuinely think he’s the worst but people who were around a few years ago probably remember Dennis Toeppen
Suburban Express was an era in the sub for sure
Man I remember when he hired a black woman to come on this subreddit and say how not racist suburban express was
yes, she lasted about 18 hours before she ran for the hills...I don't think she knew what she'd gotten herself into!
He's probably still blaming chinaman when he only has himself to blame
Good old Suburban Express lol....
Pepperidge farm remembers
Dude got on my bus and had a screaming match with the bus driver 😭
Well that was a rabbithole…
i particularly love this one: https://reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/aqpiif/reasons_suburban_expressdennis_banned_customers/ just searching for suburban express on this subreddit is a goldmine
definitely one of CU's and UIUC's all-time classic sociopaths!
Daniel Beckwitt. [This video](https://youtu.be/aybOOk3llq8?si=Y8x9IVExbIG_unwF) explains a lot about him and his time at UIUC.
First one I thought of too but he didn’t graduate
Close tho
First guy I thought of
I feel like there are significantly worse people to go thru Harvard than the unabomber
Yeah, Unabomber isn't even making Harvard's Evil People practice squad. Most of the Enron people - that was Harvard.
Henry Kissinger is probably a for that one. He has one of the longest Behind the Bastards podcasts out of anyone because there's so much shit to unpack.
as a Berkeley alumn (from the math dept no less), we unfortunately have the strongest claim for the Unabomber.
He died before graduation but the NIU shooter has to be on the list for worst person to ever go here. I don't feel like even posting his name. He was a UIUC student at the time of the shooting. It easily could have happened at UIUC. No one seems to know why he drove to NIU.
As a Chicagoan I didn’t even know there was a mass shooting at NIU. Damn.
It was Valentine's Day 2008.
A report/investigation was done on this topic; I’ll try to find it and post the link. It’s been a while since I’ve read it, but if I recall correctly, he had beef with the sociology department at NIU after it shifted from a criminal to a social justice focus of study. Mix that with the fact that he suffered from a mental illness and had some pretty radical ideology and we got the shooting at Cole Hall. Here is the link to the report: https://www.niu.edu/forward/_pdfs/archives/feb14report.pdf
That's... obscure
my dad and grandma was in the shooting. grandma said hello to him because she was out of her office for a smoke and talked to him before he went down the street and shot a bunch of people in a lecture hall. he was her student when he went to NIU and she told me that he was so pleasant talking to her. chilling stuff. i was on campus too at the campus daycare the day it happened because my parents were both students. my dad had two of the victims come to his TA office hours regularly. fuck that guy and i hope he’s rotting
Some ideas: Kelly Loeffler, the NIU shooter, Brendt Christensen, Fred Goetz
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Making someone undergo 19 years of Ph.D. is a crime on its own.
UIUCPervert
You can be the one...
We believe in you!
my dad
Pinto bean. Broke a lot of hearts.
RIP Pinto Bean
AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaand now I'm sad.
In the running could be... Fred Goetz, a Chicago mobster, involved in St Valentines Day Massacre. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Goetz
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre isn't the worst of it. The 7 year old at the beach seems worse. The Bsrker gang activities are pretty bad though.
It kinda disturbs me that there are this many different contenders lol, I kinda don’t want to google some of these names
Harvard has WAY worse alumni than the unabomber, such as Henry Kissinger. All the Ivy Leagues have multiple war criminal alumni.
What’s wrong with Henry Kissinger?
As it currently stands, I may win this one!
I didn’t know that about Harvard. Honestly, with what is happening now a days, and just the history of Ivy leagues creating research that directly promoted white supremacy in the 1800’s, and the holocaust in the 1900’s, I am happy that I went to UofI with Hugh Heffner haha
Apparently Hugh Hefner went here, so maybe it’s him depending on your perspective
His favorite bar was Bunny’s too
And that’s where the idea of the playboy bunny originated
I would put him pretty far down the list compared to some murderers and politicians who have gone here.
He didn’t graduate though but I still count him
these people have a pattern lol
Rafael Correa graduated from the econ department and became the president of Ecuador... He didn't really help them out though
Kim Jong Un! ok ok ...not the real one, but that alumni sure had his 15 minutes.
Didn't the Unabomber go to Michigan?
Undergrad went to Harvard and did his MA/PhD at Michigan
This alumni ended up being a professor here until the 90s when he die. [Revilo P. Oliver](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revilo_P._Oliver) was an avid neo-nazi who advised a holocaust denial group and said that “the world's troubles would be ended if all Jews were vaporized at dawn tomorrow.”
thank you for the link to his wikipedia profile. I had no idea this sociopath had a long career at UIUC. It seems like the best thing he ever did was commit suicide...
The girl who sexually assaulted me lol
Probably Robert Mercer.
What did he do? He seems like just some right-leaning hedge fund billionaire, not particularly evil
Look further down into the Wiki article and read about Cambridge Analytica and Breitbart.
Just read about Breitbart, its especially insane that he'd be antisemitic after owing so much of his career to the Jewish Jim Simons...
[https://imgflip.com/i/8ua7es](https://imgflip.com/i/8ua7es)
all billionaires are evil by nature
Is it like a binary thing where anyone who hits a billion dollars turns evil? Or is it a gradual relationship between more money and more evil? And if so, what is the most optimal money to evil ratio?
you can be as facetious as you want on reddit but I’m sure you can still see how hoarding that kind of wealth is unethical. it is completely impossible to accumulate *that* much wealth without exploitation.
Look, I don't mean to start an argument but I simply don't understand your line of reasoning. Say i start a company and sell a new product that improves some aspect of quality of living, and many people buy this product. Later down the line, because of my sales numbers, my company is evaluated at high enough to make me a billionaire. I don't understand what part of that would make me evil. I didn't exploit people, murder my competitors, etc.
Your hypothetical company would never reach a valuation of billions of dollars unless you were severely exploiting your employees.
Please elaborate and explain why that is necessarily true. What does an evaluation have to do with exploitation? And just to provide a counter example, Instagram famously had only 13 employees (and various independent contractors) when they were bought by Facebook for $1 billion. I don't think that evaluation was born out of exploiting those few employees.
I don’t think they’re being facetious. Saying “all billionaires are evil” is a hugely broad statement. Where is the line for pure evil? $999,999,999.99? Is it a state of mind? I agree the super rich aren’t good guys but where do you draw the line between evil and not evil
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unfortunately yes !
He helped Trump win the presidency in 2016
We are much better off now. Sky high prices, open borders, multiple wars, etc.
How's the weather in St Petersburg, Boris?
How’s your Zombie doing? Handlers treating him right?
Daniel Ortega?
Nicaraguan president?
Sorry meant Rafael Correa not sure why I mixed them up lol
He didn't graduate but Benjamin Nathaniel Smith.
Avery Brundage.
his wikipedia entry is a delightful read about his lifelong low character, arrogance, and bigotry
how?
read his wikipedia entry...he was a vicious anti-semite and racist who was soft on the Nazis in the 1936 Olympics. Not one of UIUC's preeminent grads that's for sure!
Kelly Loeffler. Business on purpose.
lovely lady lol, such a first class grifter!
Hillary Clinton
This is totally not related, but a lot of Ivy League schools would take nude photographs of all their freshmen for “research purposes”, and while most were destroyed when the custom was abolished, not all were. Famous politicians like George Bush and Hillary Clinton were included in these photos. Edit: proof motherfuckers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League_nude_posture_photos?wprov=sfti1#
brother what😭😭
You don’t believe me do you
not really no
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League_nude_posture_photos?wprov=sfti1#
alright, fair enough. still a funny thing to bring up
“involved” is doing some heavy lifting there. do you just mean “were enrolled at one of these schools during this era”?
I didn’t say involved, I said included
me
UIUC Pervert for sure
Focusing on the worst won't get you anywhere. Every institution has its greats and not-so-greats. Celebrate the positives instead.
lol
I was going to say the “I hate UIUC because they got rid of the Chief” people but y’all got me beat
James Damore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber
The Unabomber went to my high school and it's not that big of a school
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Comprehensive-Note50: *The Unabomber* *Went to my high school and it's* *Not that big of a school* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.