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Pounding on the doors of Harvard power, representatives of the Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), joined by students and faculty, presented more than 4000 signatures endorsing a slate of pro-divestment candidates for the Harvard Board of Overseers...
...prevent it. Two years ago, President Bok blatantly tried to influence the Overseer election by asking Overseer head Joan T. Bok '51 (no relation) to mail a letter to all alumni criticizing the campaign of three pro-divestment candidates. And last year, the University fielded an unusually strong slate of Overseer candidates in order to prevent the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid from winning any more seats. The victory of three pro-divestment candidates in the last two years should have told Bok and the Corporation that divestment as an issue will not disappear, and that activism on the Board...
Washington, one of the three members of theBoard elected on a pro-divestment slate, said herdiscussions with Steiner touched on more than justthe divestment issue. But she added that they"discussed how to resolve the divestment issuewithout causing conflict with the Corporation,without taking a vote and presenting a Boardposition...
Arthur Liman '54, nominated by the Alumni Association for the official Overseers slate, is quoted in The Crimson (January 20) as saying that he does not support the Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid Overseers slate "as he is `allergic to single-issue candidates...
...alumni/ae electorate, but one would be hard-pressed to label the analysis as "racism." Failing consensus, it was decided that the appropriate, fair and democratic thing to do was to put the matter to a vote of the membership. That was done. Isaac is on the final slate...