helemon
29th December 2005, 08:49 PM
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635172341,00.html
The university quietly began raising money in October for the $35 million Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center. BYU President Cecil Samuelson took advantage of a Homecoming Week meeting with alumni leaders from around the country to announce the project, but BYU won't make a formal media announcement until it schedules a groundbreaking ceremony for the 80,000-square-foot building.
The Board of Trustees approved the building in November. President Hinckley is president of the board and agreed to the naming of the building, a rarity since BYU seldom names buildings for living persons. One exception is the Marriott Center, the campus basketball arena named after major donor J. Willard Marriott.
Edgley said that since 1984, the LDS Church has donated nearly $750 million in cash and goods to people in need in more than 150 countries.
I think that the building should have engraved above the entrance the phrase "I don't know that we teach that" :duh
If you divide that 750 million by 22 years it equals 35 million a year, which is coincidentally how much they are going to spend on this building. When you consider how much the church spent on the Crossroads mall purchase that 750 million over 22 years seems even more pitiful.
The university quietly began raising money in October for the $35 million Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center. BYU President Cecil Samuelson took advantage of a Homecoming Week meeting with alumni leaders from around the country to announce the project, but BYU won't make a formal media announcement until it schedules a groundbreaking ceremony for the 80,000-square-foot building.
The Board of Trustees approved the building in November. President Hinckley is president of the board and agreed to the naming of the building, a rarity since BYU seldom names buildings for living persons. One exception is the Marriott Center, the campus basketball arena named after major donor J. Willard Marriott.
Edgley said that since 1984, the LDS Church has donated nearly $750 million in cash and goods to people in need in more than 150 countries.
I think that the building should have engraved above the entrance the phrase "I don't know that we teach that" :duh
If you divide that 750 million by 22 years it equals 35 million a year, which is coincidentally how much they are going to spend on this building. When you consider how much the church spent on the Crossroads mall purchase that 750 million over 22 years seems even more pitiful.