Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even as activist alumni continue their campaign to gain pro-divestment seats on the Board of Overseers, a Board committee, chaired by Boston Federal District Court Judge William G. Young '62, releases a report asking the University to take a more active role in its elections...
...group of activist alumni immediately attacks the Young Report, claiming that its recommendations were formulated to undermine dissent at the University. Members of Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) say the proposed changes are designed to impede pro-divestment candidates' election to the Board...
...joint committee of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers meets with activist students to discuss University investment policies. The students present a petition demanding divestment from companies that do business in South Africa, but leave the meeting dissatisfied...
Only eight weeks ago, the six-member Nominating Committee was poised to tap Peter C. Goldmark '62, a former student activist who is currently president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Many overseers, who say there is pressure on the Board to toe the University line, typified Goldmark as a leader who would have been more willing to enourage debate and dissension on the 30-member, alumni-elected Board...
...activist group--the Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC)--forms and plans a week of protest. Within the council, the liberal Services Committee suggests the ROTC resolution is unconstitutional because of the military's discrimination against gays and lesbians, and urges a re-vote...