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...School Administrative Board may bring charges against a second-year student for his involvement in the Blockade of a dinner at Memorial Hall during September's 350th anniversary celebration, the student said...
...former president of the Board of Overseers,Heiskell replaced Yale history professor JohnMorton Blum '43 who resigned from the Corporationin October, 1979. Cited for his managementexpertise and for his familiarity with the NewYork business community, Heiskell was selected, inpart, to assist with fundraising in anticipationof Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration thisfall. Heiskell is currently chairman of the Boardof Trustees of the New York Public Library...
...corporate governance of Derek Bok has become so consumately protective of the institution that even initiatives from the top routinely meet with rejection or stagnation. The University has become expert at resisting pressure of any kind from any quarter, maintaining its defenses against siege. As Harvard passes its 350th year, those who preside over it seem increasingly concerned with preserving it in its present state for the 400th...
...effort put into organizing Harvard's 350th celebration this fall, perhaps the most noticeable absence was any attempt, by any official group, to take stock of the programs and hierachy of the University in the mid-1980s. Because students and alumni often regard themselves as temporary and insignificant members of an immortal institution, they assume that this generation has no business reviewing or revising the way Harvard operates. The protectors instead turned the Yard into a museum, for all to admire but for none to touch. Students, considered in the Rosovsky scenario as the most fleeting and least vital operatives...
...350TH anniversary has helped to inculcate the immortality of this institution, in all likelihood helping to perpetuate the corporate, paternalistic structure of Harvard. As long as the community accepts administration arguments that its actions are designed to preserve Harvard, calls for divestment, for the tenure of professors who serve students well, or for reforms in the structure of undergraduate education will fall on deaf ears. In arguing against divestment, Bok simply evokes concerns about the financial health of the University. In defending tenure policies or educational requirements, Dean Michael Spence need only lay claim to insight into departmental excellence...