K-School Committee to Discuss Report on Donors With Allison

An informal student-faculty committee at the Kennedy School of Government will meet tonight with Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, to discuss the committee's recommendations on accepting gifts and naming facilities at the school.

The eight-member committee, which had hoped to complete a draft of the recommendations before spring break, met with Allison last week for the first time to discuss its proposals. Allison said last week he will not make any decisions on the draft proposals until he has met again with the committee.

Rebecca A. Lee, spokesman for the committee and a K-School student, declined to discuss the contents of the committee's recommendations.

The steering committee of the Student Association at the K-School discussed in a meeting in March whether the committee would form any basic strategies in making its recommendations in light of President Bok's first open letter on ethical responsibility, Joseph Freeman, chairman of the steering committee, said Sunday.

The committee voted to allow the student-faculty committee to continue along its present course, Freeman said. He added the committee members seem confident of "the strong workable document" they have.

The committee is also discussing possible solutions to the controversy surroundding naming the Public Affairs Library after Charles W. Engelhard Jr., a South African mining magnate.

Myron Golden, a K-School student, said last week he left the committee because he is disappointed by its lack of social concern about broader issues facing the K-School and by the committee's unwillingness to recognize that the context in which the committee is working had hardened as a result of Bok's letters.

Golden said what he saw of the committee's report is "weak and diluted." He said he had hoped the report would set broader policies for the school.

He added he feels the "whole exercise is indicative of the Kennedy School student," adding that most students are apolitical and do not take stands.

Lee said last night she shares many of Golden's concerns and regrets his leaving the committee.