FAU sells stadium naming rights to for-profit prison operator ( http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2013/02/20/florida-atlantic-geo-group-stadium-naming-rights/1933013/ )
If you build it, a private correctional facilities company with a spotty track record of violations and investigations will come. In 2011, Florida Atlantic completed construction on a $70 million on-campus stadium, one that it had been pushing to fund and build since christening a football program in 2001. One way to offset the costs needed to construct and maintain a stadium is to offer up naming rights, such as similar non-automatic-qualifying schools like North Texas (Apogee) and UCF (Bright House Networks) have done over the last half-decade. On Tuesday, FAU announced it had found a partner. And who would that be, perchance? The Owls will be playing football in Geo Group Stadium, named after the nation's second-largest for-profit prison operator. Luckily, Geo Group's founder and CEO, George Zoley, is a two-time FAU alumnus and former chair of the school's Board of Trustees. Amazing! Geo Group ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_Group ) Awesome. Kind of like Total Recall: We Can Remember if for You Wholesale. Instead, it's: We Can Imprison Them for You Wholesale. It's a good slogan and it's working. The US has 5% of the World's population and 25% of the prison population. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:361547 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
