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...apparent interest from Reagan added a whole new element. "I personally feel that if the president wants to speak at a university, he should be able to," Van der Eb said. If Reagan wished to speak at Harvard, it was clear, he would be welcomed: Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the Kennedy School, has had an open invitation to Reagan since he became president. But the only appropriate place at Harvard on Commencement Day was at the afternoon convocation of the Associated Harvard Alumni, not, in the words of one administrator, at the Kennedy School "sideshow" ceremonies...
...want Reagan at Commencement. We wanted to dispel any such impression." Calling the whole matter "an embarrassment," Smith said he was concerned that the story had done "significant damage" to relations with the Reagan White House, possibly hurting the ability to place graduate students in administrative positions. Allison, looking back on it, was more sanguine; he said he didn't think the story had had any effect on relations with the White House, adding, "They have a lot more business to do than worry about this, and they appreciate that newspapers always try to get an angle on a story...
...remembers, one of the things she liked most about the K-School was its claim to personal faculty-student relationship. But when she got here. "I saw they didn't walk around chatting like the catalogue said. Lots of students don't even know who Dean (Graham T.) Allison...
Norman R. Smith, assistant dean of the K-School, confirmed yesterday that Bok sent a letter to Graham T. Allison, Jr. '62, dean of the School, in late May saying it was inappropriate for graduate schools to have their own commencement speaker. At that point, when everyone whom the K-School had contacted indicated they would be unable to speak. "We decided not to invite anyone else," Smith said...
...letter to Allison Bok indicated that the situation had gotten out of hand, and told the K-School it could no longer have commencement speakers...