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Everything is for sale! | Dailycensored.com

Everything is for sale! | Dailycensored.com

Everything is for sale!

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

August 22, 2010

Donor Pledges Dollars if Stephens College Workers Lose Pounds

By Ilana Kowarski

A Stephens College alumna has promised to give her alma mater $1-million, with one weighty condition: Employees of the women’s college in Columbia, Mo., must lose a total of 250 pounds by the stroke of midnight on January 1.

And if the college’s president, Dianne M. Lynch, sheds at least 25 pounds, the donor will add $100,000 to her gift.

“This donation is unusual because it’s not about a program or a scholarship or any other kind of naming