You just can't help yourself, Mike, can you?
Follow along closely, please, and I'll go slow to give you one final chance to extricate yourself from this self-induced mess.
Here is an actual Wikipedia link to Mr. Morin, which understandably focuses heavily on the so-called "scandal":
en.wikipedia.org
(1) Morin worked at the Dimond Library for almost 50 years, retiring in 2014. He passed away in 2015;
(2) There is no indication whatsoever he was anything short of
being of sound mind and body at any time;
(3) Most of his $4.0M estate gift - his entire estate, apparently - was gifted to UNH in "
unrestricted funds";
(4)
Morin dedicated $100,000 for the Dimond Library and library science scholarships.
His decision, not UNH's;
(5) Of the remaining $3.9M
unrestricted funds gifted, the biggest amount (
$2.5M) went to expand UNH's career center;
(6)
Only $1.0M - not your alleged entire $4.0M - was budgeted for the video scoreboard at UNH's football s
tadium;
(7)
Advertising revenue from the scoreboard (
$120,000 thru late 2017) provided return on the investment
The Wikipedia piece is thoroughly footnoted, ironically by a number of do-gooder blowhards just like you, who were aghast at how Morin's gift was spent.
But at the end of the day, the information that is out there in the public realm is that Mr. Morin,
being of sound mind and body, specifically allocated only a small sliver of that amount to his workplace (query Mike whether you would gift any of your estate to your workplace?), and clearly made a decision to allow UNH to make what UNH determined to be the best use of the rest. UNH then allocated roughly 65% of that amount to its career center, and roughly 25% to their new stadium's video scoreboard, which has since likely generated at least 50% of that gifted amount back to the UNH coffers via advertising revenue.
I'm not going to defend UNH's highly-defensive "cover story" over the optics of their late-in-life librarian becoming a "huge football fan", first because I don't pretend to know if that's true or not, but
more importantly, because in the end it's entirely irrelevant. Nothing was "done to" Morin, and I'm sure he'd shudder at your asinine attempt to case him into the role of a victim.
The gift was very specific on what Morin wanted, and who Morin trusted. Again, far be it from me to be an apologist for UNH Admin (Darius, help me out here, willya?
) there is nothing to indicate the gift was wasted. To the contrary, even the portion you are throwing a hissy fit over continues to earn UNH advertising revenue to the present day, and beyond.
But you being an elitist snob with strong socialist tendencies, you still think Morin was a bumpkin who got muscled into doing something against his will ...
... which again highlights your contempt for the man you pretend to be defending. Typical BHL BS (apologies to the well-intended BHL's on here).
As the saying goes ... the problem with socialism is, eventually you run out of other people's money.
