Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 36990
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3/31    Cal alum donates $30 mil. to UC Irvine:
        http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/03/31/financial/f061332S04.DTL
        ... continuing the well-documented pattern of low alumni giving at
        UC Berkeley. Question: Why don't alumni donate to Cal? Speaking for
        myself, (1) I'd rather give to specific groups (CSUA, PAAC, UC Jazz)
        which may not report their receipts to the university, and (2) a
        decade of benign institutional neglect left me bitter. -elizp
        \_ This guy gave to UCI because they named their biz school after
           him. That's something Haas would have never done. He can frame it
           any way he wants, but that seems to be the reality. He got his
           BA and MBA from Cal, but his ego meant more.
           \_ Haas school would have never done because this guy didn't donate
              as much as Haas.
           \_ Or maybe he was just pissed at Cal.
        \_ Having just graduated, I haven't given anything to Cal yet, but
           if I were to give something it'd be vastly more likely that I'd
           give to CSUA/EECS/CS than Cal itself, simply because my experience
           with the services provided by the CSUA and the department have
           been that much better than the services provided by the
           bureaucrats in Sproul/associated buildings.
        \_ Maybe he's Republican...
           \_ He's iranian.  Iranian republican under this administration?
              A rare bird, indeed.
              \_  Not true. I know many wealthy Iranians who vote with their
                  pocketbooks. Many others still reminisce of the good old
                  days of the Shah and want regime change. --iranian dem
        \_ I paid out-of-state tuition every semester until I graduated.
           Should I still donate?
        \_ Do I think back warmly on my experience at Cal?  Do I think I
           received a good education here?  If I donated money, do I think
           it would be spent effectively?  No, no, and no.  Why in the world
           would I donate my money to Cal?  If Cal wants donations, maybe it
           should start treating its students as future donors rather than
           unfortunate inconveniences.
        \_ I keep getting this annoying mail from CAL saying I pledged to donate
           $50, can I just keep ignoring it? It doesn't have a # to call or
           anything.
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www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/03/31/financial/f061332S04.DTL
In return, the school will be renamed the Paul Merage School of Business. Though he earned a bachelor's and MBA degrees from UC Berkeley, Merage sa id he donated to UCI because he considers it one of the most ambitious U C campuses that's willing to embrace change. "I think UCI and its students can be agents of change, can be at the fore front of the new economy," he said Wednesday. Merage came to the United States from Iran at 16 to attend college. He to ok out three mortgages on his house and borrowed money from his parents to establish Chef America Inc. The $30 million pledge was UCI's single largest donation, enabling the co llege to increase student fellowships, faculty research funding and othe r endeavors, said business school Dean Andrew Policano. "Everyone across the country knows we' ll be picking up some of the top people in the profession over the next few years."