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To: Tax-chick
Doesn't matter if strings are attached. In a case involving Princeton, some person/family donated $25M for a Western Civilization chair.

The president of Princeton, a Canadian woman, didn't used the money fund everything but the gift was for.

I don't remember the details, but Princeton may have had to give the money back.

14 posted on 12/19/2011 7:30:18 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

My family does the same. We sponsor a scholarship in my father’s name. We control who gets the scholarship every year. The college sends us information on the student and we pick.

If we don’t want to give anything to the women’s studies major, we don’t have to. :)


15 posted on 12/19/2011 7:39:04 AM PST by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
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To: Calvin Locke
Doesn't matter if strings are attached.

Exactly. There's no way a donor can force a university to use a donation as intended - not even a private university, and certainly not a state one. It's like putting extra money in with your tax return "to pay down the national debt." Get real.

19 posted on 12/19/2011 9:38:32 AM PST by Tax-chick (Two women in one house ... and one of 'em a redhead!)
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