Do you donate money to your alma mater?

[IronLionZion]

I go to RIT and they have money out the ying yang with all the donations they get from alumni and rich people. My college, the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, was paid for entirely by about $14 million from Tom Golisano, a Republican who ran against Pataki for governor and lost.

I doubt I will donate to RIT because they don't appropriate the money well and choose to build expensive sculptures and useless crap.

How about you?

[La_Serpiente]

1. No

I am still in college. Would I? Maybe if I got a good job.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. I'm not alumni yet, but I will never donate.

Mainly because the last alumni project was a little clock tower plaza that they used as a memorial to one of the WORST presidents we've ever had. I might give a substantial amount to the journalism department if I have some spare cash after I get into my job...but as for the alumni association, no.
Duckie

[ex_jew]

3. I used to, but then I realized it was supporting Fascism !

That's right, I went to the University of Chicago, breeding ground of Antonin Scalia, John Ashcroft, Paul Wolfowitz, and many others - the place Leo Strauss used to call home. No way I'm contributing to that mess.

[Nikia]

4. Yes

I want to give more too. I believe that I got an excellent education and want to make sure that more students for generations to come have that opportunity.

[IronLionZion]

9. yeah I would give to strictly educational stuff like scholarships

or computer equipment

definitely not for artsy fartsy sculptures or useless bullshit

[NicoleM]

5. Gotta pay off the student loans first.

I will someday, though. They have a lot of money, but they give poor kids like I was lots of grant money. I want to make sure they can keep doing that.

[GabysPoppy]

6. PS 5 doesn't need my money

Besides it burned down decades ago.

[Braden]

7. South Henrietta Institute of Technology?

I do make donations. In the end if you are helping one at need student partially defer tuition its a good thing. Bad art not withstanding.


PS I used to date an RIT girl way back in the day.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. No fucking way

My alma mater became a taliban training ground for right wingers in So Cal. Clue number one...my alma mater has created studies for CATO and a luanching pad for HArvey Pitt.

[pasadenaboy]

18. Pepperdine? SC?

do tell.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

19. The Claremont colleges

[SOteric]

10. No, I sink my spare cash into charitible causes and political

concerns, - and well, me and my family and friends. We need the bucks more than my alma mater.

[philosophie_en_rose]

11. Hell No!

I wouldn't donate to any of the conservative programs, liberal professor bashing junior Republican clubs, or illicit funding of Campus Crusade for Christ.

The only way I would donate would be to elevate small academic departments or to create a full-ride "Proud Liberal" scholarship. Either way, I wouldn't donate unless the school was forced to change.

On a side note, I'm sick and tired of my alma mater calling and begging for money. They're worse than telemarketers and use the money for useless garbage.

[mrbill]

12. no way, never have, never will

Same school pickles went to.

This institution has plently of money now.

The big plan now is a campaign for chimpy's library. That might have something to do with why the university just bought the old mrs. baird's bread property across the street.

These weasles can kiss my ass.

[VOX]

13. I do. State universities get less $$$ from the state each passing year...

and are relying more and more upon private donations to operate.

A large state research university has myriad departments to which you can direct your donations -- cancer research, pediatrics, public health, AIDS treatment and research, support for the the arts, film preservation, scholarships, athletics, on and on.

Supporting higher ed. and research is a good thing to do, especially if you attended a state institution.

[travisleit01]

14. I'm not going to!

My school is a money-hungry $#%$%$!

[salin]

15. In years when I can

I have - but restricted to student scholarship funds. I sorta hate the "I got mine..." attitude - and when I can feel I should help someone else who might need a little assistance be able to attend.

[LTR]

16. I already donated

With my many bogus parking tickets.

That's all those bastards will get from me!

Funny thing is, tuition is roughly DOUBLE now than what it was in the mid-late 80s when I attended. Why do they need donations?

[pasadenaboy]

17. Yes

went to UCLA, a great public university. Repubs are trying to ruin it by cutting funding, so us alums have to chip in to keep it great.

[Awsi Dooger]

20. I give to the USC School of Journalism occasionally

Perhaps every other year for the past decade. The fund raising program under USC President Steven Sample is extremely aggressive -- phone calls and mailings averaging 6 or 8 contacts per year minimum.

My first donation was to correct an annoyance, the misspelling of my name in every university correspondence. I promised a sophomore coed who called a semi-generous donation if she would just fix the damn spelling of my last name in the USC computer(s).

My most recent donation was to the school's effort to build an on-campus basketball arena, after about 20+ years of delay. Supposedly it will finally happen within 3 years.

[CRK7376]

21. Love my school, but absolutely NO

money to the alumni assoc...THey were hitting me up for alumni donations before I even graduated. About 6-8 weeks prior to graduation, the senior class began getting join the alum letters...give to the College Fund etc... Let me get out first, and make some money...oh yeah I went into teaching...no money in that profession.....That was back in '85, they still keep hitting me up for money.....

[noonwitch]

22. Yeah, I pay my state taxes

I went to a state university.