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ash-hole189 t1_j0l6eqo wrote

Reply to comment by fishlope- in what else can we name after him?! by clOverrated

Blunt must have given both entities money to nail his name on them. The airport terminal or whatever had a vanilla name to begin with, but Temple Hall is legend. I’d be ticked if they removed my name for no apparent reason.

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robzilla71173 t1_j0zf1uc wrote

I grew up going to science competitions in Temple Hall. I practically lived there for my pre engineering years and I actually did live there during grad school. And now I work as a scientist at MSU. Not lying when I say this was the first time I'd ever heard of Allen Temple. Not sure it's legend. I would almost guarantee my coworkers here also don't know who he is. We know Blunt because he pushes massive amounts of funding our way for science research and that included about fifty million to double the size of Temple Hall, which is why they renamed it after him. I'll happily eat the downvotes if it means some of you will read this and think about ditching the blanket views of him as anti science because he's a republican. He was literally a science teacher before politics and has pushed billions into science research during his career. I don't agree with his politics, but I'm very aware that he's pro science.

https://blogs.missouristate.edu/president/2022/12/20/clifs-notes-for-dec-20-2022/

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