Boston can change the name of Yawkey Way all it wants, but BC says it's sticking with the Yawkey name for its athletic center, named to honor a $15-million grant from the Yawkey Foundation, the Heights reports.
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By bosguy22
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 9:19am
If I were the Yawkey Foundation and they did change it, I'd want my money back.
That is likely the source of the issue
By poster
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 10:19am
Within the past few years, there's been an upswell of donors suing organizations, colleges included, because the terms of their donation/grant were not honored. If the naming of the building was in the terms of the donation/grant, they could take some or all of the money back from BC.
BC may not have a choice, either keep the building name or return the money.
Sure, as long as neither
By Alfrek
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 12:15pm
Sure, as long as neither Yawkey or the Foundation never look any tax breaks on the donation. If they did, it should be seen as a donation. If they did not, it can rightfully be seen as a purchase of naming rights. When
UnileverP&G bought the naming rights of the stadium in Foxboro, they didn't get to write that off as a donation, and neither should Yawkey.Edit: wrong multinational.
Unilever? Nope, Gillette
By anon
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 11:50am
Unilever? Nope, Gillette/Procter & Gamble.
Why would you even want the
By anon
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 3:21pm
Why would you even want the money from an org named after a racist?
If BC really cared about its principles, it would give the money back, regardless of how it impacted them.
What about the MBTA?
By anon
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 9:34am
I am waiting to see if they change the name of Yawkey station. If they do then they will have to change the name of Lechmere station and several other stations named after slave owners.
Richard Lechmere was a slave
By Steve Brady
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 10:34am
Richard Lechmere was a slave owner AND a Tory, who fled to England at the start of the revolution and never returned. Nothing should be complicated about that case.
Why is a charitable foundation funding a Div I program?
By mseskin
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 10:23am
Racist history aside, I’d always thought the Yawkey Foundation was at least a legit charity… like used for building facilities for hospitals, community centers, or at the very “worst” the children’s museum… WTF was the Yawkey Foundation doing funding a college athletic department?
FINALLY!!!!-!
By Stephen Bickerton Sr
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 10:23am
an organization with balls.
You could argue that the other way too, couldn't you?
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 10:31am
You could just as easily argue that telling a wealthy donor to screw off by changing the name of the building would take big brass ones, no?
He who pays the piper...
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 10:32am
... calls the tune. The difference between, say, on the one hand Princeton changing the name of stuff named for Woodrow Wilson, and, on the other, BC changing the name of the Yawkey center, is that Princeton chose to bestow the Woodrow Wilson name of its own volition; whereas BC sold the right to name the Yawkey center in a financial transaction. Once you've sold something you can't take it back.
I'll be so happy when this
By anon
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 10:38am
I'll be so happy when this renaming craze winds down.
Oh yeah
By anon
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 4:04pm
Then we won't have to trouble our little padded heads with the information that most filthy rich organizations made their money through oppression of minorities and women!
Split the difference
By Kaz
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 10:39am
Call it the Yawkey Foundation Athletics Center.
The Yawkey Foundation does some great things and deserves to be honored for giving $15M (albeit, they could have also used that money to help more people than an athletics center).
Tom Yawkey doesn't.
Tom Yawkey doesn't.
By bosguy22
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 1:03pm
Why?
Two reasons
By Kaz
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 2:47pm
1) Fitzpatrick.
2) Pumpsie Green.
Of course
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 12:38pm
All this could be avoided by just performing the charitable act without any attention whoring at all.
Only partly a charitable act
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 12:52pm
It's pretty clear from the excerpted contractual language that this could just as easily be characterized as "buying naming rights" as it could "performing a charitable act."
So give them their money back
By anon
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 3:35pm
So give them their money back. That will fix things.
Corporations buy naming rights for money making purposes.
By section77
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 8:49pm
Jean Yawkey didn't leave money to BC and MGH to "further her brand." (I swear this is like kids who know snippets of information but can't quite pull it all together as a coherent thought.)
Of course she did
By Bob Leponge
Tue, 02/13/2018 - 2:04pm
Of course she did. Look at names on older Boston buildings. Study the old Boston Yankees and their Calvinism a bit. Why do you think the foundation insists on naming rights if you don't think they believe they're getting something of value in return?
bc will move a dead cardinal's body
By bostnkid
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 3:48pm
but they wont change the name of a building named after a racist? sounds right.
Not shocking given the level
By Steeve
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 4:02pm
Not shocking given the level of racism I've seen thrown around at BC football games by their white suburban fans. Gotta pander to the donors, after all.
Lest we forget, the money comes from Jean Yawkey.
By section77
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 8:12pm
She is the one who left the bulk of her fortune to various charitable trusts which help people around Boston, including money that came years later after the sale of the team. She did more good all these keyboard warriors ever will. Talk about your attention whores.
Yawkey
By Bugs Bunny
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 8:41pm
Well it s easier to be charitable when you marry a sports team owner.
This BC Double Eagle is Embarrassed
By A
Mon, 02/12/2018 - 9:15pm
BC should change the name. If the Yawkey Foundation wants their money back, then so be it. $15 million is about 215 tuitions. Besides, I am SURE they have $15 million laying around somewhere- they made off like a bandit when they bought Lake Street from the Archdiocese. BC should do what’s right and step up. If they really want to make a difference, they’ll change the center to make up for some of the wrongs the college needs to address. Maybe call it the Lou Montgomery Athletic Center.
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