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Originally Posted by flstf
Perhaps this is more complicated then I thought. Like I said in an earlier post, If the university no longer wants to honor the soldiers of the Confederacy, why don't they just give the 2005 value of the 1930 money back to the Daughters of the Confederacy? Won't they accept this? I don't know, maybe the principal of the thing is more important to the DOC than the money or maybe the university doesn't feel that strongly enough about it to fork over the cash.
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That was my initial thought, that you just return the money and be done with it. However, it is bound to be a VERY sizeable amount and possibly in excess of the current value of the building. At that point they may as well demolish the dorm and build a new one that they can name whatever they want. Also, the argument could be made that if it is the name that the Daughters find so valuable, not the contribution to the institution and the betterment of the school, then they have gotten 75 years of value out of it already. That's a pretty good lifespan, so it could be said that some pro-rating of the amount would have to account for this.
Josh
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