--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm not sure the TM movement owns it anymore. I seem to > > recall that they let it go rather than pay some taxes. > > All they care about is money. They tore down the chapel on MUM > campus without even a sigh on their parts.
Having had to meditate in that dilapidated, mold-infested piece of crap when I was an MIU student, I was delighted to see it torn down. My recollection is that they sunk six figures into fixing the roof and repairing water damage, only to have the leaks return because the building was shifting due to a crumbling foundation in need of a half-million dollars worth of repairs. That's a lot of money for the university to throw at a building that served little purpose for the university. Thing is, there were two other old dilapidated buildings on old campus that were torn down in the early '80s with no objections at all. And, the oldest building on campus was condemned and would have been torn down, with no objections, had it not been completely restored at the expense of a large donor. So, where was the community's attachment to crumbling, moldy old buildings back in the 1980s? Why no wailing and moaning back then? My guess is that if Maharishi Sthapatya Veda had been around back then, and it had been part of the thinking behind those earlier demolitions, people would have bitched about those horrible roos destroying historic old buildings simply because there was weird esoteric woo-woo involved in the decision.
