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...more than 400 student demonstrators forcefully pointed out at the dedication ceremonies, the Kennedy School's decision to name its Public Affairs Library after Charles W. Engelhard--a notorious financial supporter, and beneficiary, of the brutal gold trade in South Africa--was a startling affront to all those who had hoped the University was sincere in its oft-stated concern for the oppressed in South Africa. School administrators, in accepting a $1 million donation from the Engelhard Foundation, clearly exhibited the same type of amoral, heartlessly opportunistic thinking that characterizes the worst decision-making in government today--the type...
...even paid lip service in last spring's Corporation report. Clearly, then, the Kennedy School should return the money to the Charles Engelhard Foundation and rename the library to honor a more deserving figure. Only then will the school be able to boast of training scholars to serve the public interest...
...Institutions must try to conquer the vices of business by responding in new ways to the human needs of their clients and learn to serve them without trampling on the public interest," Bok said...
...said the rapid growth of professional salaries and the greater demand for service fostered by technical progress might be responsible for the decline in public trust of professionals...
Meantime, the public sector in the past three decades has consumed more and more of the nation's gross national product (32.5% in 1978). An exorbitantly overgrown system of regulation has turned prudent Government watchfulness over private industry into virtually perpetual interference, and thereby chilled enthusiasm for investment. Moreover, the business of business, unglamorous and vaguely unpopular in the U.S. for at least several generations, is portrayed as all-purpose villain at the very moment when it should be stimulated to its greatest exertions. Communications across the barriers of attitude become difficult. Too many Americans cherish a doctrinaire repugnance...