The University of Alabama gave back a philanthropist's $26.5-million donation and took his name off the law school Friday, a week after he called on students to boycott the institution over the state's new abortion ban.
Last week, Culverhouse urged students to boycott the university over the ban, saying:"I don't want anybody to go to that law school, especially women, until the state gets its act together.”
University Chancellor Finis E. St. John IV said Friday that Culverhouse's expectations for the use of the gift were"inconsistent with the essential values of academic integrity and independent administration" at Alabama. Culverhouse acknowledged telling the university that the law school should admit more students and that his donation was intended to fund scholarships to achieve that. But he said he thought the matter had been resolved.
After the trustees' vote, the younger Culverhouse said that he and father had donated to the university over the years in part to rid Alabama of a certain stereotype:"We are the land of the backward, we are hicks, we lack the sophistication to see two sides to an argument."
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