'MIT has a responsibility to the truth higher than promoting for sainthood an individual who lined the institution’s pockets,' writes columnist hiltzikm
On this side, art dealer and former Goldman Sachs executive Robert Mnuchin, who just spent $91 million of a client’s money on a stainless steel statuette of a rabbit.
One need not speculate about Koch’s motivations in funding cancer research , a campus child-care center or the basketball coach’s salary in order to observe that the there’s a long tradition of wealthy families using philanthropic good works to paper over the dark sides of their past. Henry Ford’s record of virulent anti-Semitism is almost forgotten in the glow of the work of the Ford Foundation .
MIT already has suffered the consequences of its ties to Epstein. These include the resignation of at least two associates of the Media Lab, which accepted much of the donations, who don’t want to be associated with the lab any further.But whether the institution really will apply lessons it learns from the Epstein case more broadly is an open question. Certainly there was no evidence in its encomium to Koch.
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