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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Roll, Alabama, Roll!
ROLL TIDE
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.
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The question seems to be : “would you eat your own baby for 26 million dollars”, the answer was not no but, “hell no!”
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.
We think alike. :)
Well ROLL TIDE. As a 3 time graduate, I’m proud of them
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.
welcome to God’s country. :). Still a lot of liberals at the University, though
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?"
... 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)
Great town, Daphne. My son lives there, so I visit often
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.
Now that was just a little strange.
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