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Old 09-16-2016, 10:22 AM   #1208
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada View Post
Well they did adhere to his only specific spending request on the liabrary. I'm going to assume that he was an intelligent man and as a 50 year employee would have a good grip of how the university is run so I believe he would be fine with him allocating the funds as they see fit. If he didn't want it spent on the new stadium he could have requested it. I'm chalking this up as modern internet people loving to be outraged over nothing.
Gift agreements between universities and donors are pretty airtight, and come with very clear stipulations as to where and how the money can be spent.

However, in this case, he made some very general requests, and it really looks like the university took a lot of liberties.
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