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...rejecting the Kennedy School student body's petition calling of rthe re-naming of the Engelhard public Affairs Library, Dean Graham Allison has affronted not only his own students but also all those concerned with the fight for freedom in South Africa...
...Dean Allison insists that re-naming the library "would do little to advance the cause of freedom in South Africa." Obviously, only the people of South Africa can liberate themselves; but they cry out to us to break the economic, political and psychological ties between South Africa and the West which bolster the racist regime...
...Dean Allison also contends that rejecting the Engelhard gift would threaten the "independent pursuit of learning" at the Kennedy School. His full statement reveals, however, the fundamental truth--Dean Allison believes that the well-being of Harvard University is dependent on contributions frequently earned in immoral ways. One does not have to be a university professor of semantics to recognize the blatant contradiction in Dean Allison's remark...
Should the University honor such a man by dedicating a library of public affairs to him? Dean Allison,k when pressed by the Kennedy School Black Students Caucus, admitted that there is in fact no contract requiring the naming of the library after Engelhard. If so, why not change the name? Must we seek funds from the honor every wealthy donor, no matter how immoral their source of wealth? Should we dedicate a library to a profiteer of slave labor? Are there simply no limits to such expediency? Should not the Harvard Corporation take heed of the words...
...Engelhard heavily invested his time and money in the campaigns of John Kennedy '40 and Robert Kennedy '48. Mr. Tofel added that Lyndon Johnson joined liberal Senators Edward Kennedy '54, Harrison Williams, Hubert Humphrey and Mike Mansfield at the Engelhard funeral in 1971. And Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison notes that Mansfield is a director of the Engelhard Foundation and that the Foundation has given money to the United Negro College Fund, the National Urban League and to community organizations in Newark, New Jersey (The Boston Globe, Oct. 25, 1978, page...