· Haverford College President Wendy Raymond stated in a letter to leaders of the Students’ Council that she did not believe the matter “meets the threshold necessary to move forward” with forming a committee to review a potential name change. Lutnick has donated more than $65 million to Haverford since his graduation in 1983, according to WHYY.
· Calls to remove Lutnick’s name from the library at Haverford, a small, private nonprofit college just outside of Philadelphia, followed testimony Lutnick gave to Congress in February confirming that he had lunch with Epstein in 2012 despite previously claiming he had cut ties with the disgraced financier in 2005.
The situation at Haverford is one of several in which the Epstein case has continued to reverberate and have repercussions in the world of higher education.
For example, longtime Bard College president Leon Botstein announced his retirement in May after an internal review found that he kept a cozy relationship with Epstein, whom he referred to as “an ordinary sex offender.” Other examples include Harvard president Larry Summers, who gave up his faculty and leadership role at Harvard in February. At the University of Maryland, students voted in April to remove Tom McMillen from the board of regents after his name surfaced in the Epstein files.
The Epstein files themselves have been on public display as of late. A pop-up library dubbed as the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room has been launched in cities such as New York and Washington, D.C. A correspondent for The EDU Ledger observed a large throng of visitors lined up outside the reading room in Washington, D.C. during its six-day stint in the nation’s capital, where it was open from June 9 until Trump’s 80th birthday on June 14.
President Trump and former US President Bill Clinton are among several high-profile figures known to have associated with Epstein, but neither has been accused of wrongdoing by survivors of Epstein’s abuse, according to the BBC. Both have also denied any knowledge of Epstein’s sex trafficking schemes.
