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...interpreter of students to all of us," says Derek C. Bok, president of the University during the 1970s...
...Bok cites Epps' role in defusing tensions in 1972, when students seized the president's office to protest Harvard's ties to the Gulf Oil Company, which operated a refinery in what was then the Portuguese colony of Angola...
...Especially during times of student unrest there was constant interaction between our office and Archie," Bok says...
...firm belief that the role of TFs in calling on students, male and female alike, should be the subject of a formal study whose results would be released to the community. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, sitting in the audience, referred to a study done by the Bok Center which revealed a gap between the number of men and women called on in section. How about actively publicizing those findings and doing another study to check on the current situation...
...Bok seems to have put it best in his 1984 letter: "The principles of free speech require the understanding and support of all segments of the university community. Free speech will not survive in an environment in which many people are indifferent to its existence or hostile to the expression of unpopular thoughts." Let's take Bok's words to heart and be neither indifferent nor hostile to free speech on the Harvard campus...