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Last fall, when Cambridge received a visit by Saudi Arabian Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud--whose shady past included allegations of kidnapping and police bribery--Harvard shamelessly rolled out the red carpet. With Harvard's approval, dozens of University police officers moonlighted as private security guards for the prince, ignoring attacks on Harvard students by the prince's bodyguards and short-staffing the Harvard Police Department. Harvard finally banned its officers from working for the prince--after he had donated millions to the Medical School...
...visit, the prince was sent off with a fancy Harvard banquet, and Harvard was left with a Prince Turki Professorship in Urology. How appropriate...
...trained on potential fundraising excesses. They have certainly been committed in the past. Several years ago, Harvard awarded University Officer status to a Texas couple in return for a sizable gift to the Kennedy School of Government. More recently, the Medical School endowed a chair in honor of Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, an alleged kidnapper who gave the school large sums of money. When climbing into bed with moneyed interests, the University should be extremely careful to keep its academic principles independent from its funding sources--a goal that will become more difficult (and more important...
...record, it should be noted that the Texas couple and Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, while unsavory characters, did not attempt to exert any improper influence over Harvard's curriculum or threaten its academic integrity...
...source close to Saudi Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, who said that two of the prince's top aides resigned because of moral outrage over the conduct of the prince's entourage during the three months he has been in Cambridge. During this time, there have been numerous complaints by Cambridge residents about the prince's stay...