--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > Instead of temporarily moving 100 Mother Divine onto the MUM > campus > > and using the already-built trailer park for 500 of its originally- > > intended pundit-occupants, Bevan and John want you to give > generously > > to build another pundit campus -- not surprisingly, 250 people who > > pledged to donate once the pundits got here are keeping their > hands > > in their pockets: > > > > > > Subject: Preparing for 1000 Vedic Pandits > > > > http://invincibleamerica.org > > > <snip> > > Though the stated aims are different, is this incessant fundraising > at MUM really any different than that which goes on at any > university? How do Stanford and Harvard get their billion dollar > endowments? People wake up one day and decide, Gee I guess I'll make > a substantial contribution to my alma mater...? Nope- it is the same > kind of deluge of mailings, phone calls, fund raising events that > occurs at MUM. Kind of a big yawn, dont'cha think? >
************* It's clear that all schools do incessant fundraising, so I don't have a problem with that. It's just that I find the decision to not use the original pundit campus for the pundits when they finally showed to be irrational, and so apparently do 250 people who pledged to support the pundits, but are not kicking in as promised. Mother Divine could easily move onto campus for a while, and a facility that is better suited to their numbers (100) could be build in VC, freeing up the original VC trailer park for 500 pundits. This new MD facility should be able to be built for ~$1 million, maybe even stickbuilt for that price? The original pundit campus cost $2.2 million to build, so using it for pundit housing saves a lot of money, and MD should have a better facility than they are now using. Bevan's argument is that all the pundits should be together, but since the original pundit trailer park is on 40 acres, there is plenty of room to put another similar trailer park on the same site, to accomodate the 1000 they are talking about bringing in. The recently-arrived trailers (so far they have enough housing for 120 pundits) on the 80 acre site can be used for Purusha or other groups, or even MD.
