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University of Alabama rejects $26M gift after abortion flap
Associated Press ^ | June 7, 2019 | Blake Paterson

Posted on 06/08/2019 5:29:20 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The University of Alabama gave back a philanthropist’s $26.5 million donation and took his name off the law school Friday, a week after he called on students to boycott the institution over the state’s new abortion ban.

Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr., a 70-year-old Florida real estate investor, said he has no doubt the board of trustees acted in response to his remarks, and he complained that the state of Alabama is only reinforcing its reputation as “the land of the backward,” full of “hicks.”

University officials emphatically denied the decision had anything to do with Culverhouse’s stand on the abortion law and said it was prompted instead by his attempts to dictate how the money should be spent. They did not elaborate.

Culverhouse’s pledge, announced in September, was the biggest contribution ever made to the university. In return, the law school was renamed the Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. School of Law.

Within minutes of the trustees’ vote, a maintenance crew had removed his name and the university had wired him a $21.5 million refund of the money he had already given the university toward fulfilling his pledge. …

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; alabama; babykillers; boycott; culverhouse; florida; floridaman; flyovercountry; hughculverhousejr; rolltide; tuscaloosa; universityofalabama
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To: bantam
Finally!!!!!!!!!!
An institution with GUTS to do the right thing!!!!!!!!!
KUDOooooooooooooooo’s!!!!!

Roll, Alabama, Roll!

21 posted on 06/08/2019 6:04:05 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Olog-hai

ROLL TIDE


22 posted on 06/08/2019 6:05:15 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Olog-hai
Alabama Stomp
23 posted on 06/08/2019 6:06:14 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: miss marmelstein; All
My new home/state certainly has balls.

I agree! Very proud of Governor Ivey. Moved here from Denver in 2012, currently living in Daphne, Baldwin County. Are you anywhere close?
24 posted on 06/08/2019 6:08:45 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: MrEdd

Just don’t be surprised if the uni later does a 180, or caves to something else.

Why I put my faith in principles, rarely people.


25 posted on 06/08/2019 6:13:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: miss marmelstein

You have mail!!


26 posted on 06/08/2019 6:16:32 AM PDT by mcmuffin (Jan. 20, 2017, Thank God!)
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To: miss marmelstein
I once asked a fellow rural Hoosier why none of the natives used turn signals. He responded to the effect: if You're from around here, you already know where I'm turnin'; if you ain't from around here, I don't want you to know.
27 posted on 06/08/2019 6:20:48 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: mewzilla

The question seems to be : “would you eat your own baby for 26 million dollars”, the answer was not no but, “hell no!”


28 posted on 06/08/2019 6:30:43 AM PDT by cotton (one way, one truth, the life.)
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To: mewzilla

Well, the existing university system is (as a whole) as obsolete as the newspaper business is. Of course they will take desperate measures and make unseemly compromises to try to stay afloat.


29 posted on 06/08/2019 6:45:33 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: miss marmelstein
Check this out.

Leningrad Cowboys and Sweet Home Alabama

30 posted on 06/08/2019 6:54:03 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

We think alike. :)


31 posted on 06/08/2019 6:56:53 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Olog-hai

Well ROLL TIDE. As a 3 time graduate, I’m proud of them


32 posted on 06/08/2019 6:57:52 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: Olog-hai

Stuff’s getting serious when universities begin rejecting multi-million dollar donations because of the political viewpoint of the donor. I happen to agree with this one. Culverhouse sounds like a horses-@ss. Especially that crack about the good people of Alabama.


33 posted on 06/08/2019 6:58:32 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: miss marmelstein

welcome to God’s country. :). Still a lot of liberals at the University, though


34 posted on 06/08/2019 6:59:56 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: Mr. Lucky
"I once asked a fellow rural Hoosier why none of the natives used turn signals. He responded to the effect: if You're from around here, you already know where I'm turnin'; if you ain't from around here, I don't want you to know."

LOL! So d*mn true around here in Martinsville, once you're out of town a couple of miles people just stare as you drive by, you can see in their eyes they're thinking "What are they doing going out this way?"

35 posted on 06/08/2019 7:01:40 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: mountainlion
This country was built by hicks and deplorable who worked with their hands and many gave their lives for others. How can you honestly make millions of dollars on real estate?

... and built institutions like state universities through hard work and taxes. Culverhouse thinks he can throw a few million excess dollars on the table periodically and claim credit for everything that University has done for the last 125 or so years. (Sorry people, this Pennsylvanian doesn't know exactly how long the University of Alabama has been in existance)

36 posted on 06/08/2019 7:02:39 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: notdownwidems

Great town, Daphne. My son lives there, so I visit often


37 posted on 06/08/2019 7:03:49 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: Olog-hai

Preventing the killing of American babies is something “backward hicks” do but using taxpayer money to pay government employees to change the diapers of the babies of illegal alien invaders at the border is “humanitarian”? That’s kind of weird.


38 posted on 06/08/2019 7:55:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: HotHunt

Now that was just a little strange.


39 posted on 06/08/2019 7:58:25 AM PDT by animal172 (Call me simply deplorable.)
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To: animal172
Strange but fun.

The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir.

The band has eleven Cowboys and two Leningrad Ladies. The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, and performed in English, have themes such as 'vodka', 'tractors', 'rockets', and 'Genghis Khan', as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all with lots of humor.

40 posted on 06/08/2019 8:32:33 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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