Sunday, March 22, 2009

Donor

Many of our students (and probably colleagues) are completely taken aback when they learn of the proposal by certain Feng Shui specialist, who suggested to donate HK$10-billion to our medical school - with the condition that we change our name to XXX School of Medicine.

That's rather horrific, I agree.

But, on a second thought, that may not be an entirely bad idea; it depends on how you use the money.

I would suggest the following:
  • Retain $6-billion for internal use.
  • Give $2-billion to our sister medical school so that they could return to the one who donated $1-billion to them in 2005. (Let him have a generous interest; he is a businessman after all.)
  • Donate another $2-billion to that sister medical school so that they could be renamed to "XXX School of Medicine - Hong Kong Island Branch". (You could sue them for sexual discrimination if they do not accept: they accepted a worse term four years ago from a man.)
For those obsessive with business terms, this is acquisition, not merge.

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