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...petition, led by the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), is a response to efforts by the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) to gain support at Harvard for its campaign to diversify Augusta. NCWO sent two letters in November to Daniel, Houghton and Stone, asking them to explain how membership in Augusta can be reconciled with the University’s nondiscrimination policy...
While NCWO argues that Harvard should require Houghton and Daniel to either resign from Augusta or from the Corporation, ABHW board member Kimberly H. Levy ’03 said she and fellow students in ABHW felt the move unnecessary...
...wasn’t prepared, and neither was the Association, to demand resignation solely on suspicion of future discrimination,” said Levy, a former ABHW president who met with NCWO leaders last weekend to discuss the petition...
...said that she and ABHW had been concerned that a push for resignations would bring undeserved negative publicity to the University...
...ABHW President Allana N. Jackson ’03 said the issues raised on the BSA, BMF and ABHW e-mail lists were the impetus for the board’s decision...