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Earlier in the year, in the spring of 1980, TWCO leaders met with Bok and submitted a detailed proposal for a student-run Third World Center financed by the University. The proposal called for the immediate establishment of a center providing social and academic support for minority students in light of the fact that the Third World student community at Harvard had grown 20-fold in the 15 years leading...
...Bok had shot down a similar TWCO proposal requesting that the University devote $200,000 to create a Third World Cultural Center, citing financial and ideological reasons why Harvard would not fund such a center...
...Third World Center creates a risk of segregating students by race and to that extent threatens to work against the philosophy underlying student diversity,” Bok wrote in an e-mail...
...proposal, however, TWCO upped its demands, adding a budget for renovations, annual operational costs, and a full-time staff paid by the University. But rather than issuing an emphatic “no,” this time Bok appointed a presidential committee to conduct an extensive review of the proposal...
Chaired by Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, the committee was composed of five other faculty members and administrators as well as five students appointed by Bok. The committee assembled shortly after Commencement, convening six times over the summer of 1980 and continuing to meet in the fall. During their half-year-long deliberation, the committee consulted 13 universities across the nation with cultural centers. It also solicited input from various administrators and campus ethnic group leaders, Gomes says...