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...United Arab Emirates (UAE) presents a disturbing moral challenge to school administrators. Sheikh Zayed is the founder of the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, a think tank that has been charged with supporting grossly anti-Semitic and anti-American views. Divinity School Dean William A. Graham has wisely pledged to return the gift if the connection between the Zayed Center and the offensive writings can be substantiated. Views promoted on the Zayed Center’s site range from denials of the Holocaust to claims that the United States orchestrated the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The executive...
Graham’s pledge to return the money is a bold one in the current economic climate. Budgets are tight across campus, and the Islamic studies professorship the gift would have established would surely have been very useful for HDS. Despite these circumstances, Graham has admirably shown that freedom from association with such bigoted views is of greater value to HDS than a single professorship...
This is an issue on which principle must override pragmatism. When we accept a gift we implicitly condone its source, and may indeed become guilty by association. Dean Graham has taken an important step by vigorously investigating Sheikh Zayed’s gift, a move that will send a clear message that we will not list criminals and racists among our sponsors. Declining their gifts shows that there is no room for bigotry and corruption at Harvard, not even in our pocket books...
...other two unfinished matches featured sophomore Susanna Lingman at No. 2 and freshman Melissa Anderson at No. 5. Bergman, Lingman and Anderson all lost their first sets but Harvard coach Gordon Graham liked what he saw in the second sets...
...Whether we beat Stanford or not, it’s a great experience,” Graham said. “It’s only going to make us better for next year...