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Spangler added that he felt Summers’ immediate successor, former University president Derek C. Bok, would steer the University well in the interim...
...Bok is the absolute perfect pick—he has the experience of running Harvard,” Spangler said. “He is a calm, considerate person...
...first years as president, Bok took on the role of campus healer, following on his legacy as dean of the Law School, where he was very popular among the students...
...When Bok assumed the presidency in 1971, he inherited a campus roiled in controversy and deeply divided by the Vietnam War. His predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, came under fire in 1969 for calling police to respond to a student occupation of University Hall...
...will do my best to carry out the Corporation's request," Bok, who is 75, said in a University press release. "There is no institution I care about more deeply, and I will make every effort to work with colleagues to further the University's agenda during this transitional period...