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’day, Februaryijfflrsduy, February 15, 2001 STATE THE BATTALION Page 9A renaming law school Jtame change to honor donor of largest monetary gift onsontoStj ^anticipation chuyler Ho® ngineeringi teeds suchis, ncement, il plan offenr.;' 1, es withint |)ALLAS (AP) — The law user, whoichi ol at Southern Methodist Uni- iTraditions(Kity (SMU), which has received i thatcatejpBe than $77 million in donations isot visionfcBi a North Texas couple, has been 'JiHimed in honor of the benefactors, v to keepsfeBydministrators at SMU announced jounreisaMnesday the immediate name f r sai “' Joge to the Dedman School of Law. • H.n f l »' aw sc,1 ° o1 alumnus Robert H. h C ? e ?# man Sr., the billionaire founder ce Now !■, c ^ a ‘ rman °f ClubCorp, has mtire nn'l® e cumul ative gifts and pledges ly ” u )the university with his wife, Nan- a greater ^ am ‘*y- on will ensiB he move t0 rename the law tusofBor 'k ( SMU administrators said, )t workiii die Dedmans’ decision to ouilt Bonfii;P cate $15 million to the law y have to from a $30 million pledge the at the saint Wy made in April 1997. be a differr § he Dedmans’ pledge, the largest /olved. is big, not ed tocarryi! i,” she said. >ecause it we hold at; an institute ■ of Bonfire' iraderie. pnii lings that»: e there. Ifli^oUSTON (AP) — Former stripper and Playboy in this anas i| nia te Anna Nicole Smith told jurors she was “penni- tndsior,taB- | n ear iy 1995 as pjgr a iii n g husband’s son took con- il of family finances and systematically cut her off, yet Igflc records are telling another story. .. Jestitying in the 4 1/2-month-old inheritance trial over 1 ^ toward Marshall ll’s fortune, the 33-year-old laiSOSpOBl*^ s tepson E. Pierce Marshall was handling his , f ther’s affairs as early as December 1994, months be- d* 1 ofalldM^ 16 formaI| y lo °^ guardianship of the 90-year-old e,, .° |ll 1 millionaire. is si p sa j c ) j t was pierce Marshall’s influence that limited p Jiash and gifts flowing from the wheelchair-bound oil Tp : Jn to his wife, then a fashion model and B-movie ac- to reach Dot® - t0 ^ tabloid television shows in early 1995 — ffhe jury this week — that she was so broke her dec eit v was cut off in her New York mid Los Angeles homes, gut Rusty Hardin, an attorney for Pierce Marshall, "“ided Smith through page after page of bank records ^Kday, showing she was solvent and cashing checks for Sof thousands of dollars in 1995. i At one point. Smith denied paying a I louston attorney helped her mount a legal challenge to Pierce Mar- guardianship, then hack tracked when 1 lard in pro single gift in school history, launched a fund-raising effort called the Cam paign for SMU, which has already (C Making the school more affordable will help us attract even' better students, who will increase the law school's ranking.” — Robert Dedman donor surpassed $450 million. “Robert and Nancy Dedman’s commitment to SMU through the years has been truly extraordinary,” said SMU President R. Gerald Turner. The Dedman family added $5 million to the $ 15 million for the law school as a challenge grant. The cur rent total earmarked for the Dedman School of Law is $20 million, with the challenge grant expected to in crease that total to $25 million in three years. Dedman said Dallas needs a top- tier law school. “Getting the funds quicker will enable the school to attract and re tain even better faculty,” he said. “Making the school more afford able will help us to attract even bet ter students, who will increase the law school’s ranking and who will serve as leaders throughout the Metroplex and the world.” Two of the university’s six de gree-granting schools now bear the Dedman name. ocuments defy playmate’s testimony of being penniless duced a check with her signature. She also denied meet ing with the attorney in February 1995, while her hus band was hospitalized for pneumonia, even though a de tailed bill showed otherwise. “It must be a mistake,” she said. Smith also said some family members and at least one personal aide were authorized to draw on her ac count. One of those checks, for satellite tefevision ser vice, was dated one day after her husband died in Au gust 1995 and was made out for “two-thousand eight hundred ninety” dollars. Smith said the check was in the aide’s handwriting. Hardin and Smith also bickered about the disposition of her husband’s repiains, which she unsuccessfully tried to prevent from being cremated. She scolded the attorney for questioning whether the one-time industry giant shared her desire of being interred in Marilyn Monroe’s crypt. “It’s a Marilyn Monroe issue with me,” Smith said. “And my husband wanted to be buried with me.” Smith, who met Howard Marshall II while she was dancing in a Houston strip club, was 26 and he was 89 when they married in 1994. He died the next year of age- related com p 1 icatiQi^kj 5S eatures: ;e by B 16 ce jnit usion ovided :s eluded Jif SEARS, A PEOPLE- FOCUSED FORTUNE 25 8 COMPANY, HAS BEEN REINVENTING RETAIL SINCE THE 188OS. % Our outstanding career development programs and our highly supportive culture can put you on the fast track while preparing you for long-term success. 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