<p>I’m not sure how the Sudan divestment issue applies to the Obama Presidential Library issue. The Sudan issue dealt with University of Chicago endowment funds invested by the overall institution itself. The Obama Presidential Library would appear to be a wing of the university, and not representative of the institution itself. Therefore, these examples do not seem to correlate. </p>
<p>The Sudan issue is separate, (although, I think President Zimmer took an overly extremist reading of a report that, to me, seems quite moderate). In any case, I’m not sure how an issue (Sudan) that deals with the entire university and does seem to at least call for a close reading of the Kalven Report, relates to the narrower issue of what wings of the university may do (e.g. like the Presidential library). </p>
<p>Again, the reasonable interpretation of the report allows for partisan wings - such as the Becker-Friedman Institute or the Obama Library to arise - just as Columbia has an Institute on Israel and Stanford has the Hoover Institution.</p>