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WHEN HARVARD PRESIDENT Nathan M. Pusey '28 called in the police to evict demonstrators occupying University Hall on April 10, 1969, then-dean of the Law School Derek C. Bok called the occasion "the saddest day of my life." The students' decisions to seize the offices of Harvard's deans as a means of protesting the war in Vietnam had met general disapproval from moderates, but the nightmare of brutality inflicted by police in the core of the Yard forced a painful reappraisal of the University's relations with its students and its role in society...
...senator from Wisconsin a decade earlier, and failed to reassess their roles in society when faced with a frontal assault on academic freedom, shows that the "multiversity" had to be shaken from below to lessen its rigidity. The university-as-fortress had bred a state-of-siege mentality; thus Nathan Pusey called in the police...
...Styron's haunting, often wildly funny Sophie's Choice, there was but one actress for the title role in the film version: Meryl Streep, 33. To the delight of armchair casting directors everywhere, Streep is indeed playing Sophie, the Polish-Catholic Auschwitz survivor, resettled in postwar Brooklyn. Nathan, her neurotic, libidinous lover, is played by Kevin Kline, 34, the pirate king in the upcoming film The Pirates of Penzance. Kline is another nice bit of casting since, when she was reading the book, he was Streep's choice...
...antagonism towards Harvard's Establishment which led to the occupation of Derek Bok's office that April morning. Bok, however, was an inappropriate object for their vituperation. The Corporation's kingmakers picked Bok--then dean of the Law School--as President in 1971 in part because then-president Nathan M. Pusey had stirred up such outrage by permitting the University Hall bust to occur...
...early 1970s, students and others were largely disinterested in the ethical implications of the University's investment policy IBM's practice of selling computers to the South African government was not a topic for debate. (Harvard presently has holdings in IBM worth over $50 million.) As former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 once commented. "Our purpose is just to invest in places that are selfishly good for Harvard. We so not use our money for social purposes...