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Yes but is he Falik Mens Room material?

Why on Earth would anyone give money to Harvard?

It gets ungodly sums from the US government (taxpayers), every single year. It pays zero taxes to the city of Boston or state of Massachussetts. 

Harvard's endowment is over $30 billion.

Are people so desperate for recognition from Harvard? So bereft of the creativity necessary to consider *any* other worthy charities? Are those who attend Harvard so weak as to believe they must continue to give to the university so it can continue its mission of making sure everyoe believes that "attending Harvard" earns that person a free pass?

Anyway, there's this:

In a brazen effort to raise funds, Dixie State offered naming rights to individual bathroom stalls in a musical theater company’s planned building. 

Laugh if you want, but Dixie State isn’t the first cash-hungry college to seek money for bathrooms.

As first reported by Above the Law, Harvard Law School recently opened the Falik Men’s Room. Like tuition, bathrooms seem to cost more in Cambridge. William Falik told Above the Law he received the honor – if you want to call it that – after donating $100,000 to his alma mater to create a public interest fellowship in his father's honor.

Not all would-be bathroom benefactors have such open-minded alma maters. The venture capitalist Brad Feld approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about 10 years ago offering to endow a bathroom. After a few months of back and forth, he said, MIT officials told him that would be inappropriate. Feld was shocked, having thought the college would use his proposal as a chance to upsell him on his annual giving.

But Feld was vindicated when he paid to name a bathroom after himself in a University of Colorado at Boulder science building. John Bennett, director of the university's Alliance for Technology, Learning & Society, offered Feld a campus restroom for $25,000 after hearing about his rejection at MIT. Feld, who lives in Boulder, agreed immediately. He visits his masterpiece of plumbing every couple of months and occasionally checks in there on foursquare.

Bennett said the building’s seven other bathrooms are still up for sale. So far, there have been no takers.

It may have started tongue is ass, er, cheek, but trust me on this: nobody better at securing money from others than American universities. They are the experts.