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A U.S.$35 million grant from Charles and Marie Robertson, the owners of the A&P Grocery chain, funded the construction of the school's current home in Robertson Hall and laid the base of its endowment, which stands at roughly US$558 million. The heirs of the Robertsons are presently engaged in a lawsuit with the University over control of that endowment. The Robertsons claim that the school has not met its mission of preparing students for government service, as too few of its graduates take governmenal positions, that the University has improperly attempted to commingle the WWS endowment with the University endowment, and that WWS endowment funds were used to fund non-WWS ventures --- the construction of Wallace Hall, for instance, which houses the WWS offices and the WWS library, along with unrelated offices for the Department of Sociology.
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