Watch it pal, I was married in that chapel! --- Alex Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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. > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
