While I understand that there are those individuals who may be motivated by having there name on the building, I am opposed to naming the entire building for someone or a business solely because they give money to the project.
There are also too many horror stories of those with these types of ego driven motivations. I think of the situation Augsburg found itself in when they discovered a major donor was a rascist extremist and the University of North Dakota having a hockey arena built by an alum from Las Vegas who demanded they build the team mascot inextricably into the structure to prevent the Univeristy from responding to the concerns of the native american community that the mascot promoted rascist attitudes. In the case of UND, the man who donated tens of millions of dollars for the new hockey arena was also a major donor to neo-nazi organizations. Please library board, certainly be wary of ulterior motives of multimillionaires bearing gifts motivated by hubris. David Strand Loring Park --- List Manager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ever-enterprising Steve Brandt broaches the > question.... > > http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3405349.html > > David Brauer > List manager > > _______________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic > Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
