Nick: The Pincus family and their construction company have supported our university financially for decades  The university should not give the contract for building its new library to the family' s main competitor  Doing so would be disloyal to a friend of the university  Pedro: Accepting a donation does not oblige the university to give the donor any special privileges  If it did, then it wouldn' t really be a charitable contribution
We should award the contract to whatever company makes the most competitive bid
the acceptance of donations places a university under a special obligation to the donor