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...those that will become alumni after today’s ceremonies—have a great opportunity. Continue to apply pressure, but make it overt and conspicuous, like the pressure recently and effectively applied by the city government. And make it on the side of human rights and basic liberties. Write Harvard and explain to them that there’ll be no donations from you until it is clear the money will not be invested in companies or banks that do business with South Africa. Write Harvard and explain that, as women students, you felt cheated by the shortage...
...Gilbert Committee concluded in 1978 that Harvard’s system of governance should remain in place. First, the authors contended, the shortcomings in the structure “are more nearly weaknesses of execution than of basic assignment of functions.” And second, because Harvard’s governance structure is established in what is now the Massachusetts Constitution, asking the state legislature to implement the changes could result in “unpredictable consequences...
...that middle class residents want to send their kids to.” Immigration? “Education is essential for upward mobility—people come here from all over, there are tons of Somalis and Ethiopians, for example, so we need a school system that ensures a basic level of literacy.” Race relations? “Direct conversation about race is so difficult. We have to have shared experiences, and this begins in the schools...
...says Kemper ’41 Professor of American History James T. Kloppenberg. Committee members say they expect faculty members to vote on some version of the proposals this fall, after they have been refined by the committee that will meet over the summer.“The basic structure of the proposals will remain, but the details are up in the air,” Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60 says. Maier, a former Gang of Five member, will not be part of this summer’s committee.CRISIS AT THE HELMThis spring...
...President Summers’ departure should not disrupt the process in any significant way,” writes Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis Thompson, who chaired the 1997 University Physical Planning Committee and later the Allston Life Task Force, in an e-mail. “The basic goals are set, and the planning has a momentum of its own now.”But though the outgoing president may have pushed the first phase of Allston planning past the point of no return, professors say that further development will almost surely lapse without Summers’ guidance...