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...January 10, the Board of Overseers announces that Dean of the Law School Derek C. Bok (right) will replace Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 at the end of the academic year...
Within a month, President Bok and Dean of theLaw School Albert M. Sacks write to the U.S.Attorney General, asking him to call off the FBIprobe...
When President Bok gives his first address tothe University's Board of Overseers on January 11,he claims the campus has become quieter and moreinterested in learning--and points to libraryrecords as evidence of this trend. On January 25,President Nixon shocks the world by announcingsecret negotiations with the North Vietnamese thathad brought the U.S. closer to a peace accorduntil Hanoi ceased sending its representative tothe talks, citing "illness" as an excuse...
...March 3, President Bok selects Charles P.Whitlock to become the next Dean of the College inan uncontroversial nomination. Later that month, adecision to discontinue the Staff TuitionScholarship (STS) for teaching fellows (TFs)prompts graduate student TFs to unionize. On March23, the organized union calls a one-day boycott ofclasses, urging TFs not to teach and students notto attend classes. However, the strike nevermaterializes, and the University does notreconsider its elimination of the STS program...
...same day, undergraduate class attendancedrops 30 percent, and picketers surroundUniversity buildings. After four days, the unionends its strike, although Bok never recognizes theunion or capitulates to its demands...