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...Corporation is not likely to take any action on changing the name of the Engelhard Library for more than a month, if at all, despite a poll showing 52 per cent of the College's student body favoring renaming the library, Corporation officials said yesterday...
...declined to comment last night, said last week that he doubted the Corporation will ever vote on changing the name, adding that he would prefer to see Kennedy School officials draw up a policy on gifts, instead of looking at such questions on an "ad hoc basis...
Student groups have called for the name change because they say the late Charles W. Engelhard, whose foundation donated the money for the public policy library, supported the apartheid system in South Africa by his heavy investment in mines there...
Calkins had earlier said that if a majority of students favored the name change, the question would be added to the fellows' agenda. After the poll was released, Calkins said, "I don't know whether I or other Corporation members will regard this poll as indicating that the majority of students want the name changed or the money returned...
Blum said that if the Corporation ever considers changing the name, "President Bok will have to put it on the agenda...