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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Students already protesting the University's connection with South Africa jumped on the issue. Claiming that Engelhard had made his money by exploiting black South Africans, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the Black Students Association began to protest the proposed name of the library--just days before the celebrity-packed K-School dedication ceremony October 21. The administration was both surprises and embarrassed by the controversy. They were even more chagrined when 400 protestors turned up at the dedication and chanted throughout President Bok's speech because all-night negotiations had failed...
This is why we must look to the lessons of that spring of a decade ago. Because, in fact, that strike was a good thing--it produced concessions, albeit small ones, on each of the issues of concern to the students of that day. The victories were hard-fought--most of the violence that so alarmed the press was in fact directed against student demonstrators by the police Pusey had called in--but they were real, vivid proof that students can, when they choose, have an effect on even this school. In the ten years that have passed since then...
...should look back. But simply remembering is not enough--the students of this school should realize that the myths of student apathy and self-concern are harmful, not only to themselves, but also to the larger causes that are worth working for. They should realize that this time, like the spring of 1969, is one of pressing issues, a time to work hard for serious changes. There need not be another strike if the administration is willing to respond to the voices of legitimate student protest. But students should not be afraid to act if the need arises. For those...
This one came close. Negotiations between student members of the informal K-School gifts committee and the Engelhard family produced a compromise acceptable to students, the Engelhard Foundation and family, and hence to administration officials. Though no party was ecstatic about the outcome of the compromise, in the words of Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the Kennedy School, the agreement brought "institutional relief...
...student committee members who had been negotiating with the Engelhard Foundation accomplished their goal when in mid-May they helped to bring about a satisfactory compromise. The agreement involved compromise on both sides, with the students sacrificing more of their original demands. The students had wanted the school to renounce its agreement on the library's dedication with the Engelhard Roundation and to return the money. The foundation had wanted the K-School library to stand in honor of Charles Engelhard. However, it offered to modify its original request, and accepted instead a plaque stating the library was given...