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...favoring divestment are working toreinvigorate the Board by forcing it to considerissues of political import. Saying the overseersrepresent a chance for democracy in the governanceof Harvard, a group calling themselves AlumniAgainst Apartheid (AAA) will this week submitpetitions to get a slate of pro-divestmentcandidates on this year's overseers ballot...
...last year's election, all three of thepro-divestment candidates received the necessarysignatures to be placed on the ballot sent to allgraduates. The insurgent candidates ran on thesame ballot with those selected by a Harvardcommittee, which each year nominates twice thenumber of candidates for the five spots that openup on the 30-member body. One "unofficial"candidate, Gay W. Sideman '78, was elected andseated on the Board this fall...
...entrance of political candidates into theelection field has already effected one change. Inthe past, candidates for the Board have run ontheir personal accomplishments rather than onissue platforms. Candidate statements, which aresent in April to alumni in their ballot packets,read more like resumes than policy statements.That has changed. The pro-divestment campaign hasintroduced political issues to an election thathad been viewed as a quiet family affair...
...also remains unclear what procedures the University will follow in presenting the candidate's election statements to alumni when they mail out ballot packets in early April. Harvard continues to reserve the right to edit the text of these short statements...
...money is on the ballot, and that has to change," said IOP fellow Bella Abzug, a former Democratic Congresswoman from New York and outspoken advocate for liberal causes...