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FRESHMEN SAT IN horrified silence two Sundays ago as President Bok opened a week of orientation with a scathing condemnation of "myths" concerning Harvard. These so-called "myths"--the word is Bok's--are in fact fundamental truths of our one-day alma mater. In his rejection of them, Bok likely caused some trepidation among those concerned with Harvard's leadership...
...thanks to satellite linkups, clear communication with the mainland is available from telephones, usually in every stateroom. Telex and facsimile machines transmit contracts and newspapers. "We can consummate a deal anywhere," says Guy Tamboni, a New England real estate developer who enjoys long family cruises on his 108-ft. Alma. (The oceans are area coded: Atlantic 871, Pacific 872. Cost to call a yacht: $10 a minute...
Other blacks, however, were quick to reap the benefits of the ruling. By the 1955-56 school year, more than half of all black grade-school children and two-thirds of whites were enrolled in mixed classes. By 1968 Linda's alma mater, Monroe Elementary, had a 25%-white student body. By the 1986-87 school year, not a single Topeka school had a student body less than 6.2% or more than 62% black. Twice during the 1970s, the Federal Government surveyed Topeka's schools and found them in compliance with desegregation policies. Still more striking were steady gains...
GOOD NEWS came to the University's more than 200,000 alumni last week when voting packets arrived for this year's Board of Overseers election. In years past aspiring overseers, all of whom were approved by the University administration, filled the election packets with praise for their alma mater. This year, however, many of the candidates used election statements to take positions on such issues as financial aid, divestment and increasing the number of women in Harvard's various faculties...
Spence has remained silent on his alma mater'spresidential search until yesterday...