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...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...
...Acknowledge the renaming of the Engelhard Library at the Kennedy School as the Steve Biko Memorial Library...
...should indeed act together by boycotting the regular senior gift and contributing only to the Steven Biko Fund. Giving money to the University would show support for the amorality of President Bok's March 9 letter to the Harvard community, for the obfuscation of the Corporation in naming the Engelhard Library, and for the University's consistent disregard of student opinion in almost every major issue from South African investments to the Core Curriculum...
Cecil Rhodes was the same kind of man as Engelhard, and he made his money from the same source. Why not persuade this year's six Rhodes scholars to reject their scholarships, or at the very least insist that the name be changed...
Personally I would be appalled if the Rhodes scholars did anything so ridiculous. But then I've got nothing against Engelhard either. --Julie K. Pforzheimer