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.