Word: associationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THE 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.
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...
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.
The plan has the support of and was partly devised by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), the Zaire National Conservation Agency (ZNCA) and the Agricultural Production Association (APA). But Wilkes said politics and money are indefinitely delaying the project.