What did they manipulate? The name? The acronym? His death? 
Or just the donation of the money and getting to choose the name is a manipulation? Oh, how manically devious they are, in any case!
Of course, GMU didn’t have to pimp itself out for the money. They could have just elected to keep the name they currently have.
I wonder, for those who are offended by the name change, if they will also be offended when Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies, and a law school is named after her (along with a healthy donation). Will the donor be accused of manipulation, and the school be accused of pimping themselves out?
I doubt it.
Poor Scalia! To me, it is not about ridiculing him - it is about laughing at the idiots running the school who quickly grabbed the money and inserted the famous name without any critical thinking. They deserve the ridicule - rightfully. Check your acronyms!
Check out these gems generated by our elected officials!
http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/08/congress-acronyms-backronyms-bill-names
They should have gotten their students to check it out, they would have figured out the problem in 30 seconds!
Exactly, bus!
Do you remember how quickly the folks around here figured out the acronym for Paul Allen’s South Lake Union Trolley? 
Of course NYU also didn’t have to pimp itself out for $30 million in 1988 to name the “Stern School of Business” They could have just elected to keep the name they currently had since 1900.
But that’s how NYU rolls (My alma mater was wiped out when they sold the name of the school to someone with no connections to it for $100M)
I don’t get how it’s “Koch Bros manipulation.” Schools get renamed after big donors. I think it’s ridiculous to suggest they “pimped themselves out for the money” any more so than any other college that renames a school after a big donor. Move along, nothing to see.
@NoVADad99 Show me a school that hasn’t pimped itself out for a naming gift, and I’ll show you a school that’s out of business. Pun intended.
Why pimp? The school is not actually playing the pimp role…
The Koch brothers don’t care so much about the school, like your usual donor would, they care about whatever part this may play in their puppet mastering. Their money was behind political groups that supported the Malheur wildlife takeover. They are currently behind slurries of ads to convince voters to defund their public libraries, etc.
Also, when a school is renamed as part of a building expansion and the school actively seeks out donors for a capital campaign that’s one thing. What did GMU do? Just receive a ton of money to only rename the school? That does seem like pimping was involved somewhere. It’s bound to repel a certain number of other donors and a certain percentage of alumni (a few of whom I know who are not happy with the name change), so will this be a net gain or loss for the school financially?
Yes, how completely unworthy to name something after a 30 year member of the Supreme Court, really, it’s craziness! Why should he get his name on anything? We should just write him out of the history books, pretend like he never existed.
I wonder how I can fit myself into the Koch brothers evil plan, and get a donation to the Busdriver fund. I promise to cut down a tree, trip an old lady (sorry Mom, but it’s worth the sacrifice), decline to rescue that fly from my dogs, eat a steak tonight and contribute to global warming! That would fit right in with their evil plan to destroy the world… 
“Can’t they make it College of Law?”
Of course they could. Or Faculty of Law. Their neighbors at Georgetown are called Law Center. They could have chosen lots of less problematic options.
Hey, having that acronym may not necessarily be all bad.
GMU may actually win out by getting an avalanche of applications from certain demographics from folks whom Beavis and Butthead were based on to some fraternity dudes who vandalized the area around my old Boston area neighborhood and those of my former colleagues who’d likely be proud to publicly and loudly call themselves “ASSLAW graduates”.
GMU might even be able to start up a new separate Div I team, mascot, and rah rah atmosphere derived from the infinite spirit possibilities derived from that acronym.
The GMU Donkeys? But the Democrats have that mascot tied up already.
Lot of times schools and non profits sell naming rights when doing things, happens all the time. The NY Philharmonic paid the family of Avery Fisher like 10+ million bucks when David Geffen gave them 100 Million towards the rebuilding of what used to be called Avery Fisher hall, now called Geffen Hall (I always thought it was ironic that Avery Fisher, whose Fisher brand before the Japanese bought the name to produce cheap stereo outfits, was a high end brand, had a concert hall named after him that has some of the worst acoustics of any major concert hall). NYU has a high powered naming war, especially the infamous Tisch brothers versus Leonard Stern money fest, has for a long time (I kind of thought it was fun they named the school of business after Leonard Stern, he of Hartz Mountain fame, whose business practices in pet food and in development were often more infamous than famous).
Whether Scalia deserves to have a law school named after him is moot (both for and against), but I agree that the school naming it without thinking of the acronym is pretty funny, whether the person named after was Antonin Scalia or Abernathy Smith, it comes out the same:)
USoCal has a lot of named schools and colleges, with generous donations.
Maybe they can proudly proclaim themselves the GMU “Asslaws” like “outlaws” and use it in their chants.
They can also take the approach from a scene in Spaceballs when Dark Helmet finds he’s surrounded by “■■■■■■■■” and orders them to keep firing. 