Word: alumni
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...Harvard Alumni Association's directors this week finally showed some scruples, agreeing to halt all "negative campaigning" in future elections for the Board of Overseers...
Last year, of course, those same officials waged a vicious campaign against overseers candidates nominated by the pro-divestment group, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA). As it had in past years, HRAAA was simply putting forward an independent slate of candidates to force the University's divestment from companies that do business in South Africa...
When HRAAA's campaign--spearheaded by the candidacy of Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--gained steam, however, top Alumni Association officials launched a bitter attack against the group...
...Alumni Association President Charles J. Egan '54 compared HRAAA's leader to former Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), accusing him of exploiting Bishop Tutu to achieve his own ends. He also said HRAAA's candidates were "second-rate." At one point, Executive Director John P. Reardon '60 reportedly asked attendees of an Alumni Association meeting, "What's to keep them from nominating Fidel Castro next time...
Egan and Reardon's actions last spring shamed the University. They turned the Alumni Association, which ostensibly represents all Harvard alumni, into their own political party. And while HRAAA is by no means innocent, it was the Alumni Association that made the elections the most bitter in recent memory...