Ave Maria College receives censure

[Ruby Romaine]

Ave Maria College receives censure
Education Dept. orders it to repay financial aid
Tuesday, 29, 2004
BY CATHERINE O'DONNELL
News Staff Reporter

Ave Maria College, the Ypsilanti school begun and funded by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, must repay the federal government $100,000 to $300,000 because it failed to properly document student financial aid applications, according to letters obtained by The News.

The school also has been censured by the federal Department of Education, and is under investigation by the department's Inspector General, the letters state.

http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1088520304170470.xml

[Cerridwen]

1. Domino's Pizza connections

In this post; one of the posters asks why Domino's Pizza is branded non-WN

WN stands for White Nationalist; apparently the WNs are supporting Domino's

"Re: Database of WN-friendly product brands
Quote:
Originally Posted by 9mmLuger
Forgive my ignorance, but what anti-White or leftist policies does Dominos Pizza have?
Good question...is this a bad guy from a WN standpoint??:
Domino's grew from those humble beginnings into a business entity encompassing 7,000 stores in 66 countries that employed 120,000 workers and had sales of $3.54 billion in 2000.

The success of the company made Monaghan a very rich man who would often be criticized for ostentatious displays of wealth. His strong convictions and lack of fear of controversy would also work to make him less than beloved in the eyes of many.

Tom Monaghan is staunchly Catholic and has never made any bones about his support of the Church or his religion's particular beliefs. He does not go out of his way to hide his financial support of pro-life groups such as Operation Rescue and Right to Life, or right-wing fundamentalist causes such as Word of God. He was also open about his involvement with the Committee to End State-Funded Abortions in Michigan. (Not that other wealthy, powerful people don't have similar convictions or financially support controversial causes, but they are often far less public about such activities.)"


I almost puked. I knew Monaghan was anti-Choice; I didn't know about the rest.

[Ruby Romaine]

2. Welcome to DU, Nemdaille!

Monahan is a first class wing nut.
He wanted to erect the worlds largest cross but the zoning board didn't let him.

[Cerridwen]

4. Thanks for the welcome :-) n/t

[lazarus]

3. let's not forget

That Monaghan has no ties to Domino's anymore, so let's not punish local people who are trying to make a living.

[Cerridwen]

5. Who owns other 7%

This article says Monaghan sold 93% of Domino's when he retired; does he still retain 7%?

"Company Background
Year began: 1960 Franchising since: 1967

In 1960, brothers Tom and James Monaghan borrowed $500 to purchase DomiNick’s, a pizza store in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The next year, James traded his half of the business to Tom for a Volkswagen Beetle. In 1965, Tom Monaghan renamed the company Domino’s Pizza LLC. The first Domino’s Pizza franchise store opened in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in 1967. Tom Monaghan retired in 1998, selling 93 percent of the company to Bain Capital."

[Hawkeye-X]

6. CEO is a fucknut too.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Ann+Arbor&st=MI&last=Brandon&first=David

Hawkeye-X

[lazarus]

8. I dunno, to be honest

But even if he retains 7%, to punish all the local workers and franchisees because of his politics is rather unfair.

[BiggJawn]

9. But it's OK to "punish" your local Wally-World workers?

You really like Domino's pizza, I take it? :-)

[lazarus]

10. Not really

I did manage a few Domino's a long time ago, and developed a bit of a knee jerk reaction to folks who wanted to boycott because of something the guy who founded the company did with his money.

As for Wal-Mart, I'm of the opinion that those workers would be better off if Wal-Mart didn't exist.

[BiggJawn]

12. I hear ya!

Tom's made his money. Like he'd notice that sales were off on pizza...
I think it'd be better if Wally-World never gets a toe-hold in a community...

[salin]

13. the "college" he started

was a law school - with the goal of teaching law from a strictly Catholic (rather than constitutional) view. Lived in the area when he still owned Dominos and was proposing this college. Even though the money from Dominos no longer goes to fund his agenda to shift America to a right wing theocracy... (abetted by the fact that I never particularly liked Dominos to begin with) I decided to privately "boycott" Dominos. Haven't had their brand of pizza in more than 12 years.

[Bozita]

7. Photo of Clarence Thomas and Tom Monaghan

photo is from here:

http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/0405/17/c01-154909.htm

Thomas: Don't quit on values
Justice tells Ypsilanti law school graduates to forget about 'can't.'

By Maureen Feighan / The Detroit News

YPSILANTI — Roughly 30 years after his own graduation from Yale Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Sunday urged the graduating class of the Ave Maria School of Law to maintain their faith and take “can’t” out of their vocabulary.

The conservative and sometimes controversial justice addressed roughly 900 people at Pease Auditorium in Ypsilanti, giving the 56 graduates and their friends and family members bits of advice he said he wished he would have received when he graduated and was anxious and worried because he couldn’t find a job in his native Georgia: Treat others with respect, maintain faith, be thankful for every day and never give up.

“There will be times when you don’t want to face the day, when it all seems hopeless,” said Thomas, 54, who at one point alluded to his troubled confirmation hearings in 1991. “No matter how hard things get, you must not quit — you must not quit on your faith, your values, your family.”

Ian Northon, a 25-year-old graduate, who plans to start at a law firm in Detroit this summer, said he could relate to Thomas’ comments on persistence. He met his wife, Cindy Northon, at Ave Maria and it took a while before she agreed to date him. They later married and now are expecting their first child.

Northon also took Thomas’ words to heart on treating others with respect and being true to one’s values. He said even in today’s polarized society, “you can’t just turn it off” when people disagree with your views, he said. “You have to be courageous.”

Tom Monaghan, former owner of Domino’s Pizza and founder of the ultraconservative Catholic law school in 1999, called on the school’s second graduating class to be “spiritual warriors.”

“With what you’ve been given here at Ave Maria School of Law, you’re obligated to get off the sidelines,” Monaghan said.

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. Ave Maria's patron saint

is Our Lady of Perpetual Litigation.