If Jake had won the truck he would have had to pay the prize taxes so he is
lucky to have gotten the scholarship. Can we end this, please!
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Meserve [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 1:46 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Jacob Fraser story
>
> [log in to unmask],NNTP writes:
> >That said, I don't know what to think of the $2,500 scholarship.
>
> >It's great for Jake ...  don't get me wrong.  The dealership didn't have
> >to do that.  But what did they do?  Did they "reallocate" planned gifts
> >for next year to Jake?  If so, this could be looked at as "spin".  If it
> >really is "new money", then I'll certainly think of Phil McFarlane (sp)
> >and his crew at the Dodge dealership as more generous than I thought ...
> >and I've always thought of them as very generous to U Maine!
>
> It's good for him to get the scholarship, but I don't think it was a
> good deed of the dealership.  Lets think about this for a minute... now
> if Dodge did the right think by not giving him the truck, then why did
> they give money to this kid.  Something is wrong somewhere, they didn't
> want any trouble with this kid going to see a lawyer, so they kept him
> happy by giving him money to forget about what happened.
> I don't care what Dodge gives to umaine, they put any money in my
> pocket, do they give money for students to pay their bills, books.. I
> haven't seen any of it.  They sponsor "sport" programs, I'm not saying
> that is a bad thing, but people saying how generous dodge is to umaine,
> lets not consider them donating to all of umaine, correct me if I'm
> wrong, but I've only heard of dodge sponsoring the sporting events.
> They don't sponsor concerts, activities, rallies here on campus,  not
> to my knowledge.  So I'm not going to highly praise dodge for giving us
> money, they can also write it off as a donation, they aren't losing
> anything.  They would have won a lot more support if they just gave the
> guy the truck, would have saved a lot of headaches in the long run, do
> you think that these companies are just going to donate a car or truck
> for free, they write it off, so it's no big deal for them.  This is
> just my opinion, anybody who wants to dispute with us, I welcome their
> response with an open mind.