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...Korean Traders Association (KTA) gave Harvard $1 million for East Asian Studies. Peterson says the money is needed if Americans are to lessen their "ignorance" about East Asian culture and he stresses that there are "no strings attached" to the grant, adding that if he were not confident of this, he would oppose the gift. The KTA is not part of the Korean government, he says, but an organization like the Chamber of Commerce. Besides which, as long as there are no restrictions, Peterson says he'd "take money from (Korean President) Park himself...
...million worth of contracts with the Iranian government since 1974. Harvard will help the Iranians with several urban development, health and educational projects. Critics of the Iranian government cite repressive internal policies as a reason for careful consideration of any involvement cooperation or agreement with the Iranian government. Peterson, referring to a $400,000 contract to help plan a graduate research center in Iran, the only Iranian contract with which he has been involved, says the question is "not whether I approve of the government but whether this university project is possible, whether the project itself would benefit or harm...
Changes in the format of Harvard Magazine, an alumni publication may also affect donations to the Fund, Clifton says. "Alumni need to feel they belong to a chronolgoical experience, not just four years," Peterson adds. The magazine will go free of charge to all alumni on alternate months. When the magazine does not publish, the Fund will send out a small pamphlet called Forum. Forum is not a fundraising appeal, he says, but a brief, more personal profile of a member of the faculty. Five or six times each year, the Fund will also send out a "flat, outright appeal...
Gifts to the Fund range from $1 to $100,000, Clifton says. The largest gift given by a single living individual through the Development Office was between $10 and $15 million, Peterson, who did not have the exact figure, says. The donor wishes to remain anonymous, he adds. Several bequests in this range or even larger have been made in recent years, Peterson says, such as the Mallinckrodt gift which matures in 1984 at a value in the $20 million range...
Equal access admissions is unlikely to greatly effect fundraising, Peterson predicts. Clifton disagrees. Clifton is concerned with short term cash gifts more than long range investments or gifts for capital construction and his donors are primarily male Harvard graduates--Radcliffe has a separate alumnae fund. As more women enter the College, there will obviously be fewer men entering and thus fewer male alumni in the future to give to the fund. Clifton would like to see an additional House built in the College so that the school can accommodate more women without decreasing the number of men. But no alumni...