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Kentucky Wildcat 'Coal' Lodge?

October 27th, 2009

A Green Building Named for Dirty Coal?

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Joseph W. Craft III, who heads Alliance Coal, put up $7 million for a new men’s basketball team residence hall for the University of Kentucky along with a group of donors he put together. But in return, he is “requiring” that “Coal” be its middle name, according to news sources in the Wildcat state.

The Joe Craft Center, a basketball practice gym, is already named in his honor for money he donated in coal profits. The irony is, due to university policies, the new dorm will be run on “green” technologies. So critics are questioning how the university can in good conscience name it after a dirty fossil fuel.

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  1. Rowland Scherman Says:
    October 27th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    There has to be a good use for coal, somewhere

  2. Glynn Wilson Says:
    October 27th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    I guess…