Just got an email from LSU's new capital campaign for money

quote:

---

With the kickoff of our record-breaking LSU Campaign next week, we invite you to be part of the first LSU Giving Day. In honor of the year LSU was founded, we want 1,860 Tigers to join us in kicking off Giving Day. Celebrate this exciting new LSU tradition by using the quick online form to give as little as $5. Here’s how it works: On April 30, donors will give through the Giving Day website at geauxgive.lsu.edu. The site will track gifts in real time, allowing Tigers to view goal progression and participate in challenge gift competitions throughout the day. You can give to any college’s general scholarship or excellence fund, the LSU Fund, the Tiger Athletic Foundation, or the Alumni Association. No matter which fund you choose, you will provide extraordinary experiences for Tigers so they can go out into the world ready to change it.

---

quote:

---

To whom it may concern:

I am a 2009 graduate of LSU and I love my alma mater dearly. It is a source of great personal pride for me to be an alumnus of such a fine university. I never waste an opportunity to share my experiences as a student with others. I follow all of LSU's athletic endeavors as well. I can't imagine any place better than a Saturday night in Death Valley, an afternoon at The Box, Booting Up in the PMAC, or sitting on the berm in Tiger Park.

I have reached a point in my career that I am now able to give back to causes and institutions important to me. I fully intend to start doing so. However, as much as I bleed purple and gold and love my alma mater, I will not give any money back or participate in any fundraising activities at this time. I am disgusted and embarassed at the abject lack of leadership and overwhelming incompetence displayed by President F. King Alexander and Athletic Director and Vice Chancellor Joe Alleva. I feel any dollar I give to LSU at this time is tacit approval for their comedy of errors and I unabashedly and vehemently do not support their regime of shame. The manner in which they have chosen to handle Coach Will Wade is but the latest example of their incompetence and I will not ignore it anymore.

As an alumnus, I firmly believe neither Alexander nor Alleva have LSU's best interests at heart -- they are embarrassments of the highest order; therefore, I will not donate a single cent while either one of these individuals is still affiliated with LSU in any capacity. They bring shame to what is an otherwise amazing institution. I look forward to the day I can open my checkbook and give back to LSU, but that time is not now, and I assure you I am not alone.

Respectfully yours,

---