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When the new chair was established last spring. Rosovsky said that the gift reached from a search by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for funds to support Khalidi's work, and that upon the Palestinian's retirement a new professorship would be established...
...University's handling of another major Saudi Arabian contribution generated confusion and criticism. In May of 1982, Harvard accepted a $1 million gift from a Saudi businessman to establish a professorship in contemporary Arab Studies that some faculty members of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies said was effectively conditional on the appointment of Walid Khalidi, previously a visiting professor and reportedly an affiliate of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to an unusual open-ended research post. As one official close to the center, who declined to be identified, described it last May, Harvard and the unnamed donor...
Dean of Faculty Henry Rosovsky denies that the Khalidi appointment was a prerequisite to receiving the donation, calling the professorship "a normal, no-strings chair." Still, the controversy surrounding the Khalidi appointment showcased the special difficulties attendant on gifts from foreign nations, particularly those with cultures and governments very different from our own. Edward L. Keenan, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and outgoing director of the center for Middle Eastern Studies, notes that problems may arise when foreign donors do not understand Harvard's policy of accepting only donations without conditions: "After all, American philanthropy...
Brooks, however, puts forth an additional reason for his hefty paycheck: he wears two hats. Not only did he net about $82,000 for his UHS job in 1981-1982, he says, but he also drew $46,000 from his newly endowed professorship of Surgery, of which he set aside $20,000 for retirement. That chair was donated by and named after former patient Frank Sawyer, who Brooks says "likes me because I've kept him alive for some time...
...lectures combined. At a well advertised dinner discussion. Dr. Jean Nobel, noted Black historian and women's rights activist, drew only one Black undergraduate (and fortunately several Black Graduate students and staff.) Recently, Dr. Samuel Proctor--a leading Black educator scholar, holder of the Martin Luther King professorship Rutgers and pastor of the country's largest and most prestigious Black church--delivered a major lecture on Black cultural history. Only one Black undergraduate attended. This prompted Dr. Proctor to express both concern and sympathy for what he called the "lost" Black student. For a meant lecture presented by Black female...