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...chairman of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) alumni group resigned last month, protesting the unusual research appointment of a former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) affiliate which he charges was made as a condition of a Saudi businessman's $1 million gift to Harvard...
Arnold M. Soloway, who served this past year as chairman of the Graduate Society Council, the GSAS's alumni organization, criticized last spring's appointment of Walid Khalidi--a former aide to PLO head Yasser Arafat--to an open-ended research post at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, calling it a "moral failing" on Harvard's part...
...GSAS Dean Edward L. Keenan and the nine members of the committee for Middle Eastern Studies were unavailable for comment yesterday, and several Harvard officials, including Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, declined to make a statement on either Khalidi's appointment or Soloway's resignation...
...reason for his resignation. Soloway said, was that he could not continue to raise money for the GSAS--one of his chief responsibilities as chairman "if this is the kind of moral climate that prevails in this institution." Soloway said
...signatories of this letter, but did co-sponsor the event in question. The Third World Coalition (HLS), Harvard Lawyers Guild (Steering Committely, International Student Society (Ed School), Committee (Public Health), Women of the Third World (HUD), Black Students Association (College), William J. Seymour Society (College), Harvard Arab Student Society (GSAS). George K. Disharat President, Harvard Arab Student Society