Lowell Milken, brother of Michael Milken, wants to give money to UCLA for a business-law center, but since his name would be attached, one professor is raising a ruckus, claiming that it would damage the school’s reputation. Read about it here.

Lowell was never convicted of anything and as law professor Daniel Fischel strongly argued in his 1995 book, Payback, the reason why Michael Milken decided to plead guilty to the weak case against him was that the feds threatened to go after other family members.

I don’t have a dog in this fight, but think it would show good sense for UCLA to take a look at the case rather than going off on the perception that the Milkens were arch-fiends.