The Times and the Globe report today that the Harvard School of Public Health is being given a massive new donation by “a group controlled by a wealthy Hong Kong family.” The family is basically two brothers, Ronnie and Gerald Chan—but although the gift is coming from the family foundation, Harvard is framing it as coming from Gerald.

Drew Faust makes an eloquent statement on the gift: “It’s always been, as the whole field always is, under-resourced,” Dr. Faust said.”

The Times does not report—the Globe, in a piece that is generally a rewrite of Harvard’s press release, does—that in return, “the school will be renamed the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in honor of Gerald Chan’s late father.”

Coming Soon: The Buddy Fletcher Harvard College; The Lloyd Blankfein Law School; and the Sumner Redstone School of Business.

No one will care, but to essentially sell one of Harvard’s schools to a donor—even if it is a very generous donor and an “under-resourced” school—is a watershed, and not a good one. Is one reason the Globe story doesn’t even mention Ronnie Chan, who co-heads the foundation which is giving the gift, because he was a director at Enron at the time of its collapse? He had the worst attendance record of any board member. Despite this, Chan is a longtime critic of U.S. financial policy; in the Financial Times in 2010, for example, he called for a “a rebalancing of moral authority”—meaning, giving more moral authority to China, whose highest officials Chan is notorious for cozying up to—and added that “the system that the west touted as superior has failed.”

Yes, that’s probably why the Globe piece didn’t mention him. The Harvard Pravda Gazette notes that the gift comes from the Chan family, but does not name Ronnie at all.

And this is in about ten minutes of digging. Imagine what you could find if you really tried. (Hello, people who get paid to do this stuff?)

Here’s a classic Midnight Oil tune to commemorate the announcement.