Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday, Pierce Barker '68, a teaching fellow in Social Relations and Psychology, disputed the Fund's decision to stop its financial aid to Crittenton. He framed his protest in a letter responding to President Bok's annual appeal to department chairmen urging them to participate in the Fund's charity drive...
Thomas Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology, supported Barker's position. "The letter is intended to alert the Harvard community to the facts about the United Fund and to ask them if they with to contribute to a United Fund which acts out its political beliefs concerning abortion," he said...
...previous years. Harvard has aided the Fund's collection by allowing professors to deduct contributions from their monthly paychecks. This year, for the first time, Bok's appeal gave professors the opportunity to specify charities other than the United Fund: Barker, Pettigrew and other professors will likely do just that...
...Barker's letter came in response to President Bok's annual appeal to department chairmen, urging them to participate in the university-wide distribution of pledge cards for the United Fund annual charity drive...
Thomas Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology, supported Barker's letter yesterday saying that "the letter is in tended to-alert the Harvard community to the facts about the United Fund and to ask them if they believe in contributing to a United Fund which sets out its political beliefs concerning abortion...