Recently, a librarian, Robert Morin, bequeathed his $4 million estate to his alma mater, the University of New Hampshire, but critics are now unsatisfied with the way the university has chosen to spend the cash. A large portion—$1 million to be exact—will go toward a new scoreboard at the football stadium; a use that the school says represents Morin’s love for football in the last fifteen months of his life. Others, however, see this spending at odds with the frugal librarian’s life while the library only receives a tenth of that sum.
See Ben Guarino, University to Buy Football Scoreboard with Thrifty Librarian’s Money, Outraging Critics, Independent, September 16, 2016.
Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.
