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Here is a way for opponents of the Engelhard bequest to strike a blow against apartheid...
...ENGELHARD LIBRARY is a small, unpublicized basement facility used by only a few graduate students. This quiet commemoration of a million-dollar contribution provoked a vehement student reaction which needs no recounting here. On the other hand the Kennedy School accepted a like sum from a major oil company with great fanfare. It proclaimed the ARCO Public Affairs Forum the focal point of the new building. Every speech, debate, reception or symposium has been heralded by a series of posters and newspaper notices emphasizing the capitalized ARCO name. But this has not moved students to question its propriety. The Forum...
...lack of response seems all the more surprising considering how unprecedented the naming of the forum is. The Engelhard Library is part of a long tradition of purifying dirty money by honoring the former owner after his death. But there is no tradition of naming Harvard buildings for living corporations. ARCO is apparently the first brand name used for a Harvard institution. Yet the Kennedy School did not look into precedents or weigh the implications of such a policy departure. Since every announcement of a Forum event is also an advertisement for ARCO, the implications are far-reaching...
...Harvard officials had used these guidelines, they probably would not have named the public affairs library after Charles W. Engelhard, the committee said...
...rally, sponsored by the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), will end in a march to President Bok's office where demonstrators will present petitions favoring divestiture signed by students and faculty. The protesters also plan to call for the renaming of the Engelhard Library at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...