RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Go Wal-Mart Go

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Jerry Gamblin wrote:

> Because of your brand new basketball arena we are getting a new 11
> million dollar building along with about every other college and
> university in Missouri (except Lincoln who isn't getting their
> pool).

Are you talking about the new bonding measure just approved this 
year?  If so, I'm not sure I quite see the linkage.  It's true that 
a UM-based resolution has now had larger effects on other state 
colleges, but I'm pretty sure that would have happened in any case.

> If the arena wouldn't have been funded the life sciences building
> would have gone through. Since MU got an Arena and a new life
> since building the state government diced that every college
> deserves a new building.

I don't follow this either.  At the time, it *looked* like the
decision could have ended up being: Life Sciences OR Basketball.  
As it turns out, sanity only partly prevailed, and the laboratory
space MU really, really needed got built.  I can also predict that
building Life Sciences will go down as one of the best moves ever
made on MU campus.  If you haven't seen it directly, I'm not sure
you have any idea what a huge net positive this facility is having 
on recruiting people already, and it hasn't even opened yet.

Other state colleges clearly had pressing infrastructure needs as
well, but I'm not sure you can ascribe to most of them the likely
net dollar benefit that Life Sciences will have at MU.  (The
tentative Health Sciences building at MU should also be very
important; the MU Medical School's vitality has really been
negatively affected by not having really anything much to offer in
terms of research space.)

jking

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