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...members of the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Institute of Politics yesterday asked University officials to reconsider its stand on renaming the Engelhard Library, and to establish a set of criteria governing future University acceptance of gifts...
...were trying to be pretty insistent about sticking to the Engelhard situation," Jack S. Bloom '79, a member of the SAC, said yesterday. "We were trying to say that what the University did was wrong. Whatever kind of criteria you develop, the Engelhard gift will fall beyond the bounds," he added...
...from which they have been graduated to see that a loose sense of ethics is more convenient than none at all--that it can justify, in an academic sense, almost any immorality. Harvard was, for instance, completely justified by its own lights when it accepted $1 million from the Engelhard Foundation, when it thwarted the efforts of clerical workers in the Medical Are to form a union, and when it set up a committee to punish student activists without regard to due process. These were the actions of men and women who have set up their own priorities, their...
Many student groups have urged the Corporation to change the library's name because they believe Engelhard, a deceased American businessman who invested heavily in South African mines, contributed to the strength of the apartheid system there...
...name," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, said yesterday. Steiner said the Corporation opposes a name change for two reasons: members do not want to solve such a complex issue on an ad hoc basis, and changing the name would impugn the good motives of the Engelhard Foundation, which donated the library...