Dear Editor:
UW President Tom Buchanan’s perspective in the Laramie Boomerang (9/5) and the Casper Star-Tribune (9/6) about the naming of the Cheney International Center sought to provide a lesson in ethics. Quite the contrary. By defending the privileges of the wealthy and powerful while admonishing those who question the fairness and legitimacy of naming an international center after former Vice-president Dick Cheney, Buchanan’s perspective conveyed much more about his own political savvy than about ethics.
So that in the future the university's position on such matters will be clear, would it be possible to set the bar high enough so a prospective donor couldn't slither over it to have his or her name honored? Or are we left with the message that there is no lower limit – that UW would institutionalize the name of the devil if the donation and political payoff were sufficient?
Fred Vanden Heede
Laramie, Wyo.
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1 comments:
How much would that devil have to donate, at U of W, and what bar is set for naming rights at what building, seems to be the issue ?
Wait a dog gone second, the devil works through operatives, and
covert agents.
Cheney looked old, and tired, and he has no new speech material.
He had no strings to his money.
U of W allowed him to go to college after he flunked out of Yale.
While he never did anything in Congress for Wyoming, Cheney is a nothing in Wyoming, he don't even live in the State, any more, he looks so frai, he looks like he can't even fish anymore, in his 2 week stints on the Snake.
the timing was perfect, the Bd of Trustees(for U of W) gave Tom B, another year as U W President.
I really have no beef, if Cheney wants his name on a Building, and gave $ 2 million, then lets hope the level for Simpson is $ 25 million, because there the issue of the devil is much more apparent.
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