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Jacob Stockinger: Name change dishonors Elvehjem

….Whatever happened to the days of honoring public service, not just private wealth? (I half seriously joke with friends that if you have enough money to buy a public building, you’re not being taxed enough.) Will the UW now sell naming rights to Bascom Hall and Bascom Hill, to Vilas Hall and Witte Hall, to Helen C. White Hall and the La Follette Institute? Why not, if the state deficit gets big enough and state funding small enough?

… let the museum and me know what you think, pro or con, and I will publish the results and pass them on to the museum.