$100,000 Pay Toilets

Gone are the days when a university benefactor had to donate an entire building or lecture hall to get his name on the door. Now you can pay to have a university bathroom stall named in your honor. It's a strategy more universities are employing to raise cash in this strapped economy. Consider the Falik Men's Room at Harvard Law School, named in honor of 1971 Harvard Law grad William Falik, who donated $100,000 to claim the lavatory. The University of Pennsylvania has a bathroom lined with plaques noting, "This relief you are now experiencing is made possible by a gift...

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