Arena Won't Be Named for Wal-Mart Heiress

The University of Missouri is removing the name of a 22-year-old Wal-Mart heiress from its brand-new sports arena, a week after she was accused by a classmate of cheating her way through another college.



Elizabeth Paige Laurie's parents have agreed to allow the school to rename the $75 million Paige Sports Arena, which was built with a donation from the Lauries and opened three weeks ago, the university said Tuesday.





In a similar controversy, university officials have also indicated they will remove Enron founder Ken Lay's name from an economics professorship if he is convicted in the scandal that brought down the energy giant.

Officials said that would probably require the school to return Lay's $1.1 million donation. The Lay chair in economics has never been filled.

this has to be one scummy school

Where an heiress can't buy respectability?

Heartless bastards, demanding she play by the rules of the proles!

http://www.showmenews.com/2004/Jul/20040708News004.asp
In 1999, Lay donated Enron stock to finance a chair in his name. MU sold the stock for $1.1 million and placed it in an endowment. Advertisements for the chair were posted as recently as February, but the position has remained vacant since Lay’s donation.

When scandal bankrupted Enron in late 2001 and questions of Lay’s accountability were raised, a group of MU professors questioned whether it was appropriate to keep Lay’s donation.

Lay graduated from MU in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and received a master’s degree in economics from MU in 1965. He was also a Hickman High School graduate.(local HS)


IIRC the Wal-marts live in Columbia.

her diploma? She didn't earn it. She cheated. Taking her name off an arena is icing on the cake.