Word: bok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million of the projected $2.5 million needed for a new 3500-seat facility was already in the coffers. He even talked about how former Marquette coach (now NBC commentator) Al McGuire had publicly berated him (on behalf of friend McLaughlin) for the small number of seats, and how President Bok had put a napkin in front of his face at the remark...
Dear President Bok...
Despite President Bok's recent statement on gift policy, the administration's agreement, which allows a plaque in the library to acknowledge that the funds were given in Engelhard's memory, shows that it is possible to use moral criteria without embarrassing or compromising the University. Engelhard, an industrialist whose political and financial participation in South Africa directly supported the apartheid regime, is hardly an appropriate figure for memorialization by a school of public policy. The administrators at the Kennedy School who accepted the compromise worked out by its committee on gifts showed a concern for moral responsibilities...
...Harvard it is instructive to notice the stand the Harvard Corporation has taken on this issue. After reading President Bok's four open letters on the role of the university, one might expect that the Corporation would at least remain neutral. One would expect that at the very least the Corporation would refrain from supporting Ian Smith. However, this is not the case...
Thus, speaking publicly in his capacity as chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. Mr. Calkins chose to confer legitimacy upon Ian Smith's "internal settlement." This type of political action by the Corporation exposes the fallacy of two basic premises in President Bok's argument against divestiture...