Group: rec.sport.football.college
From: Jon Enslin
Date: Saturday, August 25, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Removing names from buildings (Was: What's a Hokie to do?)

On Aug 24, 7:01 pm, Dennis J wrote:
> Jon Enslin , why do you sit there looking like
> an envelope without any address on it?
>
>
>
> >On Aug 24, 12:41 pm, "Thomas R. Kettler"
> >wrote:
> >> In article ,
> >> "Edward M. Kennedy" wrote:
>
> >> > "Bill Lang" wrote
>
> >> > > Were it my decision, I would leave his jersey at Lane but take his
> >> > > name off the meeting/training facility. The former honors him as
> >> > > a player, the latter is too much of a formal honor.
>
> >> > Well said.
>
> >> > --Tedward
>
> >> This discussion of removing a name from a building is not the first. Did
> >> Seton Hall ever remove the name Kozlowski from a building since it was
> >> named for Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco infamy? Also, I recall that there was
> >> a discussion that Arthur Andersen should have been removed from a
> >> building at Northwestern, but the Trustees argued that it referred to
> >> the man, not the Limited Liability Partnership.
>
> >> I remember an article (don't remember the source), that said the only
> >> problem Universities had with tainted money is that "There tain't enough
> >> of it."
>
> >Amen brother.
>
> >Most naming agreements do allow the name to be removed in the case of
> >embarrassment or some such language.
>
> >Jon
>
> I prefer to keep the names restricted to dead folk though... instead
> of ego strokers...


Ego strokers give more than the dead.

Jon