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Yale will not name its new residential colleges for donors
Published: Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Money may not buy happiness, but at most universities it can immortalize you by attaching your name to a building. Yale is not such a school: Officials announced in February that two proposed residential colleges would not be named after ...(back to the article)
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There is a long, crass Princeton tradition of auctioning off naming rights to the highest bidder - assuming an alum comes up with enough cash. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E2DA1E3AF933A0575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
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My friend's Dad was on the board of trustee's the same time Whitman was considering donating to the school. Apparently she didn't want it to be named after her. She wanted it to be named after someone important in the Princeton community. But, Shirley and other members of the board begged her to put her name on it. They wanted a self-made woman's name to be on it. All about "diversity". I think it was really just to make headlines and get more people to apply. Low % of acceptance help those all important rankings!
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