Over six years ago I posted that if anything, I'd like to have a urinal dedicated in my name:
When I retire, I want my employer to dedicate a urinal in the Socionomology Department to my memory (but, like BenS, I'd rather hold a dedication ceremony now, while I am alive, so I can enjoy it, too). It turns out that the concept of "The John Palmer Memorial Urinal" is neither unique nor original.
This morning, former colleague Brian Ferguson wrote in email about a related effort at Dixie State College in Utah.
In a brazen effort to raise funds, Dixie State offered naming rights to individual bathroom stalls in a musical theater company's planned building. ...
Laugh if you want, but Dixie State isn't the first cash-hungry college to seek money for bathrooms.
As first reported by Above the Law, Harvard Law School recently opened the Falik Men's Room. Like tuition, bathrooms seem to cost more in Cambridge. William Falik told Above the Law he received the honor - if you want to call it that - after donating $100,000 to his alma mater to create a public interest fellowship in his father's honor....
Not all would-be bathroom benefactors have such open-minded alma maters. The venture capitalist Brad Feld approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyabout 10 years ago offering to endow a bathroom. After a few months of back and forth, he said, MIT officials told him that would be inappropriate. Feld was shocked, having thought the college would use his proposal as a chance to upsell him on his annual giving.
But Feld was vindicated when he paid to name a bathroom after himself in a University of Colorado at Boulder science building. John Bennett, director of the university's Alliance for Technology, Learning & Society, offered Feld a campus restroom for $25,000 after hearing about his rejection at MIT. Feld, who lives in Boulder, agreed immediately. He visits his masterpiece of plumbing every couple of months and occasionally checks in there on foursquare. ...
A University of Pennsylvania donor funded a bathroom renovation in the campus library. His philanthropy had one catch -- that the walls be lined with plaques reading, "The relief you are now experiencing is made possible by a gift from Michael Zinman."
Note that all I was suggesting was a urinal be named after me, not an entire washroom and not even a stall. So I mentioned that in email to some colleagues at The University of Regina when I forwarded Brian's email message to them.
Sure as shootin', a colleague from there obliged and sent this photo: