To the Editor:
While Andrew Schader's column "Grants Should Not Be Forsaken" [Mar. 28, 1995] makes a good point, it is factually wrong in its major assumption: that Yale rejected the program and the money because of fear of ethnocentrism. A professor of philosophy at Yale wrote a detailed op-ed in The New York Times two weeks ago explaining that [the university] gave the money back only because the donor demanded that he get to pick the professors for the program, which is unprecedented and especially embarrassing for an Ivy-League school. He explains that the delay in instituting the program in the first place was due to the tumult caused by Benno Schmidt, Yale's former president, stepping down, and the financial problems Yale currently faces. He says that although the conspiracy theory sounds intriguing, it is just not true in this case.
