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...Compared to the students I faced the first time around—snarling, angry revolutionaries trying to occupy my office and keep me from doing any work—the students have been extremely constructive,” says Interim President Derek C. Bok, whose first term in office began in 1971, when the memory of the University Hall incident was still fresh...
...shouldn’t assume that all student activism is bad,” Bok says. “I think it’s a healthy interest in important issues, and if students didn’t pay attention to these issues, you’d have another kind of problem that’s potentially more serious...
...reason why students today have been inclined to adopt less violent measures—and why Bok can afford to sit and listen to them—may be that they find the opportunity cost of belligerent activism higher than what their counterparts faced in years past...
...soon-to-be ex-president Derek C. Bok has argued in his efforts to improve the work of universities, our primary role as such is to learn. Learning takes place on the field just as often as it does within the friendly but dungeon-like confines of The Crimson...
...addition, Bok wrote that Harvard’s holdings in these firms was too small to have any sway over the behavior of the firms’ executives, and that using the school’s funds to make a political statement endangered the intellectual freedom of the University...