Stanford’s Overcharges

Stanford President Donald Kennedy has elevated fraud to a new respectability (“Stanford’s Kennedy Warns Against Cuts,” March 13). He notes it was bad to defraud the government (taxpayer), but it would be worse to punish researchers because they won’t be motivated or aggressive in their endeavors or so it seems to read. Is Stanford so prestigious that it can be so intimidating about its fraud?

JOHN L. ROSS, Long Beach