Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asserting its military or economic power. Rather, it must seek ways to adapt to and guide revolutionary changes that are probably unstoppable. Said Vance: "There can be no going back to a time when we thought there could be American solutions to every problem." The U.S., he counseled, "must accept the fact that other societies will manage change and build new institutions in patterns that may be different from our own [an obvious allusion to Iran] . . . Our national interest is not in [all countries] becoming like us. It is that they be free of domination by others...
...committee recommended April 11 that the K-School review the benefits of potential gifts and the donor's public record to ensure that facilities are not named after persons "who do not deserve to be honored." It also suggested that donors have no right to force the school to accept its wishes regarding names...
...committee decided last month that "the giving of a gift does not entitle the donor to select a name nor does it obligate the school to accept the donor's wishes regarding names...
...legitimacy and using Harvard for his own ends? "Those who wish to drive this point home can easily conjure up grotesque cases to support their position," Bok writes, again characterizing his student and faculty critics as innocents or fanatics who just won't be reasonable. "But no university could accept a Hitler Collection of Judaica or a Vorster Center for Racial Justice or a Capone Institute of Criminology." Or an Engelhard Library of Public Affairs? Where does Bok draw the line between an acceptable and an unacceptable donor...
...gifts intended to attract "favorable publicity to improve a donor's image." On the one hand, Bok proudly points out he once turned down a gift from the Papadopoulos regime which seemed designed to gain the goodwill of Greek-Americans. On the other hand, Steiner admitted that Harvard had accepted the Atlantic Richfield Company's offer to build a public affairs forum, even though "I'm sure ARCO hoped (the naming of the Forum) could have some favorable impact on its negative public image." True, ARCO has been repeatedly charged with price-fixing and other "unethical" behavior; but, says...