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In fact, during the Faculty of Arts andSciences' 350th anniversary campaign, between 400and 500 donors gave about 70 percent of the totalmoney raised.
"People who care about the place enough to givea lot of money are interested enough to be on acommittee, too," says Robert N. Shapiro '72, vicepresident of the Harvard Alumni Association.
But such logic has drawn negative publicity forHarvard at least once before. Two years ago, aproposed deal between the Kennedy School ofGovernment and a Texas couple prompted a period ofUniversity introspection about the ethics offundraising when the terms were disclosed: inexchange for a $500,000 donation, the couple waspromised "Officer...
"The better the Alumni Association does its jobof communicating to alumni about activities atHarvard, the better alumni understand why Harvardis doing what it is, including any fundraisingcampaign it might launch," says Charles J. Egan'54, Alumni Association president.
"Since the primary function of the AlumniAssociation is the maintenance and facilitation ofcommunication with alumni about a wide variety ofsubjects relating to the University, a logicalconclusion is that among the things we mightcommunicate would be Harvard finances and fiscalpolicy, including, perhaps, fundraising," saysEgan.MARSHALL I. GOLDMAN, associate director ofthe Russian Research...