Heaven on Earth by jonathanjessup

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Re: this entry where I remarked on the way Apple had thrown their weight around in the Sunken Garden for their iPhone 6 event. I can now do more than "only imagine how much money Apple must have given the college": it was $500,000, plus paying for replacement of the trees they took out (which apparently weren't destroyed, but moved elsewhere on campus) with new ones that are of more mature growth, and replacing some cement balustrade in the area that had been destroyed by a falling oak tree some years back (nature: 1, man: 0) and which the college could not afford to repair. I expect they will also be doing something about the grass they destroyed by putting a building on top of it, and for some reason they replanted a small grassy area in the middle of our drop-off circle, which was unharmed, with some rosemary, some kind of tall grass (not pampas grass; maybe something native?), tanbark, and like that which they also used to replace some landscaping in front of the Flint Center. (It's more dought tolerant than the lawn-type grass, I suppose.)

Unlike a lot of funding (e.g. that which comes from bond measures), the money is not earmarked for any specific purpose, so at least some of it is going to be turned into internal grants for "innovation" projects - departments or programs will be able to come up with some idea and apply for money to fund it (one condition of course being ability to self-fund after their grant runs out).