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...weeks later, Bok threw his hat into the ring. Citing Verba’s committee and the UC report, he wrote in a message to the Harvard community that “it seems only appropriate and fair to offer all interested parties an opportunity to be heard so that we may have a full range of arguments and views...
...Bok said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as president to discuss calendar reform because “several precipitating events occurred late in the year,” including the completion of the general education portion of the undergraduate curricular review...
...light of these events, and the long history of debate on this issue, I felt that I could not simply do nothing but instead should actively consider the possibility,” Bok wrote in his statement...
...Bok does propose a specific calendar, it is likely to be inspired by the Verba report, which received approval from the University's deans in April...
...Bok was not ready to make that decision, instead selecting Knowles—who was approaching his 71st birthday—to fill in for one year...