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...writer of fiction.”‘LARGER THAN LIFE’Starting freshman week, Randall’s mix of charisma and esoteric knowledge attracted instant confidants. “She was one of those larger-than-life people,” said Alexander C. Bok ’81, a close friend she dated. “She’s very persuasive.”Bok remembers helping his roommate run for president of the International Relations Council sophomore year. With several candidates on the ballot, the election stalled. But after Randall worked...
...February 1981, MIT fraternity Pi Lambda Phi organized a joke march through Harvard Square calling for the reinstatement of capital punishment for gay people. The march left a trail of severed lambs’ heads attached to leaflets with fake quotations, including one attributed to University President Derek C. Bok, which read, “Homosexuals at Harvard? It’s just not preppy.”Benjamin H. Schatz ’81, who was then president of the GSA, recalls a very intimidating atmosphere.“It was a very scary time...
...Rouhani says. One of his classmates, for instance, was the daughter of a former minister who was then in prison. “They wanted to make sure she could continue studying without any financial issues,” Rouhani says.He also remembers that University President Derek C. Bok sent him a personal letter advising him to contact the president’s office with any problems. AN UNCERTAIN STATUS But University support could not smooth over all of the Iranian students’ worries. “They didn’t know what happened to their country...
...economist Hendrik S. Houthakker—found, in a 2-1 decision, that sexual discrimination influenced the department’s refusal to tenure Skocpol.In August 1981, when Skocpol had already taken a one-year position at the Princeton-affiliated Institute for Advanced Study, then-University president Derek C. Bok announced that he would oversee a three-year review of Skocpol’s work before considering extending her an offer of tenure. Skocpol assumed a tenured position at the University of Chicago beginning in 1983.Completing its review, the University extended an offer of tenure to Skocpol in December...
...great step forward to have broadened Harvard’s diversity by enrolling thousands of minority students without compromising academic standards,” Bok asserted—a claim that resonated poorly in the minds of some students...