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$194.7 million gift from the Waltons.

Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:19 am
Posted by Numberwang
Bike City, USA
Member since Feb 2012
13163 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:19 am
For research.

LINK /

They gave $120 million in 2017 to separate the Art School into its own college at the University of Arkansas.


Not a dime for foobaw.

Thank you for shopping at Walmart.

Posted by rockiee
Sugar Land, TX
Member since Jan 2015
28540 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:20 am to
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Not a dime for foobaw.



Not even Arkansas fans can blame them right now
Posted by texag7
College Station
Member since Apr 2014
37472 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:27 am to
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Thank you for shopping at Walmart.


HEB GOAT
Posted by Leopold
Columbia
Member since Sep 2013
1068 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:34 am to
Woo Pig Sooie, indeed
Posted by Numberwang
Bike City, USA
Member since Feb 2012
13163 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:41 am to
They attached strings. They want some kind of campus center in Bentonville. Prepare for UA-Bentonville. In 100 years, Fayetteville will be the satellite campus.
Posted by gohogs141
Fayetteville
Member since Jun 2011
7512 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:42 am to
Surprised they didn't use it to fund more mountain biking research or something
Posted by scott8811
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Oct 2014
11306 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:43 am to
There's a saying about throwing good money after bad that applies here
Posted by Ronaldo Burgundiaz
NWA
Member since Jan 2012
6540 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:46 am to
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Not a dime for foobaw.
Good. Universities are for academics.
Posted by Ronaldo Burgundiaz
NWA
Member since Jan 2012
6540 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:48 am to
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They attached strings. They want some kind of campus center in Bentonville. Prepare for UA-Bentonville. In 100 years, Fayetteville will be the satellite campus.


Benton County > Washington County

Harry Rex will attest.
Posted by Arksulli
Fayetteville
Member since Aug 2014
25171 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:50 am to
The Waltons have been throwing money into NW Arkansas... and Mizzou for that matter... for a couple of decades now.

We really should fight over the golden shopping cart.
Posted by SEC. 593
Chicago
Member since Aug 2012
4039 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:51 am to
Well, not the University of Arkansas at least.
Posted by Gtmodawg
PNW
Member since Dec 2019
4580 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:58 am to
Walmart Heirs are the biggest bunch of welfare queens to ever shite between a pair of shoes....frickers make billions off of food stamp recipients and paying low wages and then go about pretending to be charitable. When their employees ain't living on my dime and they donate some money to charity I will be impressed...as long as I am subsidizing their operating costs and they are donating to charity I will simply call them what they are...welfare queens....
Posted by Lou2theZou
Chicago
Member since Jun 2019
528 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 12:07 pm to
Sam Walton, University of Missouri class of 1940...

Give us some money too Walmart... we like money too
Posted by Beached Tusky
Member since Oct 2016
1867 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 12:45 pm to
Meh Football... John White and Jeff Long did their jobs well working to kill that off at Arkansas.

In the meantime the Hunt family is playing chess not checkers and betting on baseball - LINK /

Posted by PeeJayScammedGT
Kennesaw, GA
Member since Oct 2019
2148 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 1:42 pm to
Isn't there a Bud Walton Arena at Arky?
Posted by Ronaldo Burgundiaz
NWA
Member since Jan 2012
6540 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 1:48 pm to
People are paid what they agree to work for.

If you want socialism, go to Venezuela.

They donate millions of dollars to charity. I would bet you wouldn't be bitching if the Walton's gave money to Georgia.

This post was edited on 7/14/20 at 1:49 pm
Posted by Mithridates6
Member since Oct 2019
8220 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 1:51 pm to
Isn't Kroenke basically family with the Waltons?
Posted by HogX
Madison, WI
Member since Dec 2012
5040 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 1:51 pm to
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Walmart Heirs are the biggest bunch of welfare queens to ever shite between a pair of shoes....frickers make billions off of food stamp recipients and paying low wages and then go about pretending to be charitable.


That's capitalism, baby.
Posted by Numberwang
Bike City, USA
Member since Feb 2012
13163 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 1:58 pm to
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frickers make billions off of food stamp recipients and paying low wages


Walmart pays their minimum wage people higher than minimum wage pretty much everywhere, and a person with a brain can make it into senior management there. Their current CEO used to work at a store.

It's not like they're Tyson, and importing people from third world countries to pay them next to nothing.
Posted by Numberwang
Bike City, USA
Member since Feb 2012
13163 posts
Posted on 7/14/20 at 2:01 pm to
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They donate millions of dollars to charity. I would bet you wouldn't be bitching if the Walton's gave money to Georgia.


Waltons fund all types of charter-school and youth programs. They've poured money into both sides of the Mississippi delta recently, in education and in water-quality enhancement. They fund stuff in several states.

We see the obscenely big chunks of cash mostly in NW Arkansas, though.
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