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Student Support

Taubman resumes philanthropy with LTU gift.

ROBERT A. SKLAR
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veterans who came back from service in
the Pacific and started his family, started
his business and wanted to complete his
education."
He said Taubman, a night-class archi-
tecture student, "learned everything that
we had to offer and went out and
proved himself to the world." He said
LTU wants to continually "find those
students who have the spark of inspira-
tion and really give them what they need
to be successful."
The $4 million is the second largest
single gift to LTU. "It's all right; they
deserve it," Taubman told Smith.
Other campuses
with programs and
facilities named for
Taubman, a Pontiac
native, include
Harvard, Brown and
the University of

rendering of a proposed student
center helped clinch shopping
mall magnate A. Alfred
Taubman's $4 million gift to Lawrence
Technological University, where he once
studied architecture at night while start-
ing his real estate business.
The gift is nearly half of the $9.6 mil-
lion needed to build the A. Alfred Taub-
man Student Services Center at the hub
of the private, 5,000-student campus in
Southfield. LTU graduates more than 40
percent of Michigan's registered archi-
tects.
This is the Bloomfield Hills philan-
thropist's first major charitable gift
since sewing a 2002 federal sentence
following a conviction involving price
fixing while chairman of Sotheby's
Holdings Inc. He
served 9 1/2 months in
prison in Rochester,
Minn., and one month
in a Detroit halfway
house. He was freed
last June. His fine was
$7.5 million.
The A. Alfred
Taubman Student
Services Center will
consolidate all student
support services. The
A. Alfird Taubm an with a rendering of the LTU building
intent is to help stu-
dents focus on their
studies and earn a degree. Student reten- Michigan:. LTU awarded the founder of
the Taubman Company an honorary
tion is a priority, said LTU President
doctor of architecture degree in 1985.
Charles M. Chambers.
Taubman also talked with Smith
The center will be a living laboratory
about being sentenced to prison at age
of green construction: energy efficient
78. He said he misses Sotheby's, a sto-
and environmentally friendly designs
ried art auction house that he led from
and technologies. For example, a grass
1983 to 2000. But he doesn't miss what
roof will encourage indigenous bird life
came out of it. He said he broke no law.
and capture storm water. Geothermal
"The judicial system in America is the
wells will aid cooling and heating.
best in the world, by far," he said. "It
"We are pushing the envelope to
didn't work for me, but it works for
improve student services and we'll do it
most people."
in an environment that will, in itself,
Taubman said he wasn't bitter. "If
serve as a working showcase highlighting
that's what my government felt that I
these new architectural technologies,"
should do, I did it." He said he behaved
Chambers said in a public announce-
himself, read a lot and "got it over with."
ment on May 21.
Its an experience," he said.
That morning, Chambers and Taub-
He stressed, "I didn't do anything
man spoke with WJR-AM's Paul W.
wrong.''
Smith. "We're very proud and honored
LTU won't be his last charitable
to have Mr. Taubman as part of the uni-
recipient. "I'll keep doing it,' he told
versity family," Chambers told Smith.
Smith. Fl
"He's one of those post-World War II