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Before Derek C. Bok became president in 1971, the Corporation was much more heavily involved in the day-to-day management of the University. Bok, however, has managed to alter the role of the Corporation by drastically upgrading Harvard's administration, adding four vice presidents and dozens of other officials. As a result, the Corporation today tends to set overall policy and give deans the latitude to carry...
After all, the proposal does significantly alter the balance of power between the President and Congress, placing substantial new authority in the executive. The item veto is a powerful political tool, and there is no limit to how the White House can use it. In addition to simply cutting spending, the President can use his new veto for narrow ideological purposes or as a threat to individual congressmen...
...PERHAPS THE most dangerous aspect of the proposal is that it gives the President legislative power in addition to his executive power. He can modify, reshape, or nullify laws as he sees fit through the item veto. Further, by exercising it, he can alter bills so drastically that they will bear little resemblance to the ones which Congress originally passed. In just a few strokes of the pen, he can practically create his own legislation, Congress need not really involve itself. If James Madison were alive today...
...hundred and ten years ago on a pair of rural greens, a small group of strong people--the Minutemen--took it upon themselves to alter the course of history...
Given intense pressure on campus, in this country and abroad, it is inevitable that Bok should alter his stand to suit current conditions. He, as everyone else, responds to pressures, and rightly so. But the fact that he has formulated an educational and national stance which rivals that of any public figure interested in South Africa, and has devoted considerable funding to create a productive way in which Harvard can fight the segregation, deserves credit. We can quibble about consistency in the evolution of Harvard's policy. We can credit Bok's moves to national and local pressures...