Obama will make up the difference by donating a magazine with his autograph on it’s cover for the college to auction off.
How are they going to pay their football players now?
You reap what you sow.
I think this kind of response. I have personnally withheld donation from my own Alma mater (a state university) over certain policies. The Universities must be held accountable for their behavior. They have been given free rein for much too long.
But. . . but. . . but. . . Obambi is so popular! See the alphabetnetworks polls!
Heh, most excellent! That’s a language that ND understands.
Press Release:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: David DiFranco
(313) 212-4656
ddifranco1@gmail.com
NOTRE DAME ALUMNI CONFIRM $8.2 MILLION IN WITHHELD DONATIONS – IN ONE WEEK
Financial Penalty of Obama Invite Growing Rapidly
DEARBORN, MI - (April 27, 2009) – Organizers of ReplaceJenkins.com, an online effort urging alumni and donors to the University of Notre Dame to withhold donations, announced Monday that they have personally confirmed over $8.2 million in withheld donations as a part of their national outreach effort.
The website ReplaceJenkins.com has received over 900 pledges from alumni and donors promising to withhold future donations. Several of the largest gifts include estate bequests to the University that have been removed from donors’ wills. ReplaceJenkins.com organizers have personally confirmed a majority of the largest donations, and continue to verify the validity of millions of additional gifts.
ReplaceJenkins.com spokesperson David DiFranco (Class of ‘95) commented: “We knew many donors and alums were unhappy with the decision to honor a pro-abortion president, but we never expected this large of a response. We can hardly keep up, and this is only the beginning. We can only imagine what fundraisers at the University are experiencing, but understandably not reporting.”
“The process of verifying the largest donors has been carefully conducted,” DiFranco explained. “We dismissed the obvious bogus submissions, and are not counting a huge number of larger donations that we are still in the process of verifying. We are speaking directly with donors, and in several cases we have spoken with estate attorneys to confirm that Notre Dame has been stripped from a donor’s will. We are going about this process with a critical eye in order that that the numbers we report are accurate. For that reason, the $8.2 million we are reporting today is actually very conservative.”
Alumni and financial supporters of the University of Notre Dame launched the online effort just over one week ago in an effort to withhold donations from Notre Dame, until Rev. John Jenkins, CSC is replaced. The coalition website – www.replacejenkins.com - urges supporters to withhold all contributions to the Notre Dame General Fund until President Jenkins is replaced with someone who is committed to the authentic identity of Notre Dame, grounded in the teachings of the Catholic Church.
“As momentum continues to build, we are now certain that the financial penalty resulting from the decision to honor the most pro-abortion president in our nation’s history, will be enormous. The fact that this effort is necessary is unfortunate. However, alumni and supporters of Notre Dame have little other recourse than to protest with their pocketbooks. We will continue our efforts as long as it is necessary to bring about positive change at Notre Dame that will honor ‘Our Lady’s’ University,” said DiFranco.
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ReplaceJenkins.com is a national effort consisting of Notre Dame Alumni and financial supporters who believe the University should not honor President Barack Obama given his public actions and commitment to the destruction of innocent human life, in violation of the express teachings of the Catholic Church.
The national gay, lesbian and transsxual alliance will more than make up the difference, and the apostate University will accept it with kneepads on!
They should lose the money. Obama is not God.
SMILES!
ND so far has lost 8.2M in donations.
Good for them!!
I guess some folks don’t want to support lapsed institutions.
Exactly as I predicted. Yes it was easy, but I was still right.
I sent the President of ND a really negative letter telling him that Obama has just proven how cheap his values are. I told him that instead of feeling honored by BO choosing to speak there he should be ashamed that he accepted since Obama is thumbing his nose at the institution he (the ND President) had devoted his life’s work to.
Miss California has more courage than the ND President.
Ooh. That’s gonna’ leave a mark.
I am looking forward to seeing the list of those who are offered this year's second-hand award and refuse it. If anyone accepts it, he will be looked upon by serious Catholics as an apprentice of Judas Iscariot, and by careerists as a grasping second-rater. ND will be seen as a jilted lady whose desperate pride spurs her to rush into the arms of the next suitor.
As president, Fr. Jenkins is the college's salesman-in-chief. In this economy, the problem it poses for him to come up $8 million or more short because of this lapse of judgment and leadership cannot be overestimated. It's going to be a long Board meeting. For appearances' sake, they may not can him at this meeting, but can him they will.
My guess is that the search for a new Pres. will officially (quietly) get underway after graduation, and that Fr. Jenkins will resign "to pursue other opportunities" within 18 months.
For a university with a $9 billion endowment, $8.2 million is almost unnoticeable. Try harder, Alums!