Monday, October 22, 2007

Your Name Could Go Right Here! - washingtonpost.com

Your Name Could Go Right Here! - washingtonpost.com: "Naming can, however, backfire when the donor runs into trouble. The University of Missouri, after the Enron collapse, wasn't able to fill the Ken Lay Chair in Economics and is now trying to figure out what to do with the money. The prestigious Kellogg School of Management is located in Northwestern University's Arthur Andersen Hall. The DuPont Pavilion at Villanova was re-dubbed the 'Pavilion' after its namesake, John DuPont, murdered an Olympic wrestler. The tech-stock whiz Alberto Vilar, up on fraud charges after his patronage outstripped his purse, had his name pulled down at New York University, the Royal Opera in London and the Grand Tier at the Met. In 2004, the Paige Sports Arena at the University of Missouri was renamed after it was revealed that its namesake, a Wal-Mart heiress, Elizabeth Paige Laurie, had been paying her roommate to do her homework."

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