I took the above photograph from the balcony of my condo of the University of Denver's Ritchie Center, a sports complex paid for by Dan Ritchie, the Chancellor of the University of Denver for many years. Ritchie is independently wealthy, and financed many DU projects out of his own pocket. He also got a lot of his wealthy friends to donate to the university, too. Ritchie is a good person, and I truly believe that if he was still chancellor, the University of Denver Bookstore -where I worked for 30 years - would not have been outsourced to Follett Higher Education Group. But who knows? It is water under the bridge now. One more thing about Ritchie: he thought my building was very ugly and took away from the ambiance of the Ritchie Center. He wanted to buy the building and tear it down, but the price was too high, and so it went condo instead. And just what is wrong with "Soviet style architecture," anyway?
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