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...Soviets, the new system is nothing less than revolutionary. Instead of being presented with the name of a single party-approved candidate, voters will pick from a slate of several nominees. Moreover, the elections will be conducted by secret ballot. But because of the complex, overlapping rules, the route from nomination to election is difficult to understand and often seems open to manipulation. The new law makes nominating candidates so confusing that some sessions have degenerated into brawls as factions accused one another of exploiting the fuzzy regulations to rig the outcome...
Last month, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced a slate of 10 candidates for the Board's five openings. Their nominees include Commerce Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole, Democratic National Committee Chair Paul G. Kirk '60 and actor John A. Lithgow...
Critics have suggested that HAA nominated famous alumni this year in an effort to hurt the chances of independent, pro-divestment candidates. Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, a group which favors total divestment, will announce its own Overseers slate next week...
...Overseers should be independent enough to oversee, and not merely rubber-stamp, the actions of the Corporation," says Wood, who was elected on a pro-divestment slate in 1987. Wood also says the Board should allow its members to publicly discuss Harvard-related issues...
...activist slate, a new ad hoc committee on University investment will attempt to revive the issue of Harvard's South African stockholdings by sponsoring a February student petition drive. The committee also hopes to define the council's relations with an independent, divestment-linked student gift fund, the Endowment for Divestiture...