Oregon still gets the cool threads, but this year the Nike academic dollar is going to Penn State. From GoPSUsports.com:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; - In honor of longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and his wife, Sue, and to commemorate the coach's 400th win, Nike, Inc. has made a gift of $400,000 to the University Libraries.
The Paternos are longstanding supporters who have championed fundraising efforts for the Libraries since the 1980s. "Joe and I have always said that you can't have a great university without a great library," said Sue Paterno. "We are delighted that Nike, Inc. has acknowledged this milestone in Joe's career by supporting an institution so important to us."
The building will still bear Paterno's name, in addition to the new Darrelle Devis Digital Resource Center, the Adrian Peterson Archives of Ancient Mediterranean History and the LeBron James Center for Behavioral Sciences, complete with hot tub. Plans for the Matt Ryan Microfiche Nook remain under negotiation.
(Actually, the money will go to fund a "knowledge commons" that will provide undergrads with "a collection of innovative and traditional services and repurposed physical spaces that facilitate information discovery, collaborative learning, and knowledge building." They're still not going to change the uniforms, though.)
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