--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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.
Agreed- I am not advocating that those people who pledged pay either. > > 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. > Sounds like a fundraising ploy to me.
