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...instance, change was realized, as student protest accomplished the "denaming" of the Charles W. Engelhard Library for Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government...
...cold weather did not deter undergraduates and students at the Kennedy School of Government from picketing around the Charles W. Engelhard Library of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School. Controversy about naming the library after the millionaire who had publicly condoned the apartheid government in South Africa did not slacken...
They are all talking about the same place--the Public Affairs Library at the Kennedy School of Government. The proposed naming of the library after Charles W. Engelhard, who built a financial empire through his investments in South Africa, touched off a controversy that administrators wanted to die fast. Protests and meetings with both undergraduates and K-School students kept the issue alive, however. When the end finally came, all the issues dovetailed like the plot of a fairytale; rarely in the real world do controversies have a happy ending...
...South Africa when they accepted a $1 million contribution from the Engelhard Foundation early last year. A feature in an October Crimson detailed Engelhard's involvement in South Africa: as chairman of the board of Rand Mines, he had encouraged Americans to invest in that country and had made public statements condoning apartheid...
Nobody left after the closing prayer. They stayed to hear Mark Smith '72-4 charge the K-School administrators with violating a moral obligation by honoring a man whose actions contradicted the philosophy of a school of public affairs. The protesters demanded that the K-School renounce its agreement with the Engelhard Foundation and return the $1 million gift. Students argued that since the University would probably not name a library after Adolf Hitler, it should not dedicate one to Engelhard...