Morrill Hall has been on the ISU campus since 1891. It has been many things to many generations of Iowa State students — library, chapel, gathering place. It has stood as a landmark to our university’s humble beginnings.Today it stands as an abandoned eyesore by the Hub, scaring small children and freshman looking for cheap cup of vending-machine coffee. Frankly, Morrill Hall looks likes something from “The Haunting of Hill House.” If Edgar Allen Poe were still alive, he would write short stories set there. But that eyesore should be saved from its current condition.It is not just an eyesore, it is a challenge for administrators to find the funds to pay for the costly renovation.How do you fund a major renovation for a building without changing the name? Morrill Hall isn’t like Old Biology was before it became Catt Hall. It needs to serve as a reminder of another time with its name intact.In 1862, U.S. Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont proposed that each state be granted 30,000 acres of public land for each senator and representative under apportionment based on the 1860 census for the establishment of a fund for colleges of agriculture and the mechanical arts. The best reason to donate money to a university these days is to get your name on a building. But if anybody actually deserves to have his name on a building, it’s Morrill. Let’s get the fund-raising machine calling everyone on God’s green earth to donate. Put their names on $1000 bricks. Create a Hall of Donors. We don’t need to get all of our donations in one lump sum. Sure it looks cool when one rich guy donates $10 million, but many smaller donations can get a job done as well.editorialboard: Carrie Tett, Greg Jerrett, Katie Goldsmith, Andrea Hauser and Jocelyn Marcus