MLC Yet Again

A. Nony Mouse has left a new comment on your post "Martin Luther College Chapel, or Build It and The...":

Wait a second, there are a couple of important facts that you have to remember about this $7 million.

1. All of that money was given as part of a special gift in 2000, well before the financial crisis even began.

2. All of the money was designated by the givers specially for a chapel at MLC. It would be unethical and illegal for the synod to use that money for anything else but a chapel at MLC.

I agree that building a chapel during this crisis gives a bad impression. In fact, that's exactly the reason that the money has been sitting around unused for 7 years. But at a certain point you simply have to carry out the will of the givers and use the money to do what it was given for.

It may not be going to fix this crisis, but I would rather have it used for something rather than burying it in the ground and getting nothing from it.

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GJ - I suppose burying the money in the ground was metaphorical. Buildings generate more costs: insurance, maintenance, heat, electricity. One might say that is a definite way to bury the money, and more with it.

I heard a rumor that the chapel money was spent. I suppose putting up a building would help end that rumor.

Will this be another Schwan Chapel, like Bethany's?

Santa Lucia, With Some Improvements
(Apologies to Al Capone and all Neopolitans)

The copper roof shines in my eyes,
Pizza has paid for this, and so has good ice cream.
Come give some major gifts!
Santa Marvin Schwan, Santa Marvin Schwan!

O dear Little Sect, on the Great Prairie,
Where Marvin Schwan was pleased to smile!
Come give some major gifts!
Santa Marvin Schwan, Santa Marvin Schwan!