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First, as Daniel Steiner '54, University counsel, argues, reneging on the Engelhard contract ex post facto would not only "impugn the good motives of the Engelhard Foundation," but would be poor "donor relations." Who would be willing to donate money if they knew the University would investigate the morality of their lives? President Bok said last month, "This type of thing should not be done ad hoc." This argument seems reasonable. Though it does not absolve Harvard's guilt for naming the library after Engelhard in the first place, it does, as Bok implies, point to the need...
There should be an end to direct links between donations and naming buildings and chairs. The naming of the donation should not be part of the gift contract, though it would be understood that in most cases the donor could request and receive name recognition...
...blood centers meet most of their need for blood plasma, the liquid portion of the blood-which is important in the treatment of burns and other traumatic injuries-by a separation process called plasmapheresis. In it, blood is drawn from a donor, the plasma is extracted, and the red blood cells (which carry oxygen and are given to surgical patients to make up for their blood losses) are infused back into the donor. By contrast, most European blood centers simply collect the whole blood and separate the plasma and red cells. Because they use more plasma than red cells, they...
...have stated that to change the name would "give offense and demonstrate insensitivity to many people who are dedicated to this University, and its purposes, and whose financial contributions make possible our independent pursuit of learning." The rights of and effects on future donors is a difficult and important area. It is our opinion that the success of the fund-raising process may not suffer should the name of the library be changed. It may be instructive to look at changed. It may be instructive to look at history. In the case of Dr. Ernst F. Hanfstaengl '09, who made...
...admitted that there is in fact no contract requiring the naming of the library after Engelhard. If so, why not change the name? Is the Kennedy School frankly admitting that there should be no relationship between morality and public affairs? Must we seek funds from and honor every wealthy donor, no matter how immoral their source of wealth? Should we dedicate a library to a profiteer of slave labor? Are there simply not limits to such expediency...