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...confronted by protests over gifts from Southern Africa, Derek Bok wrote an open letter describing and justifying Harvard’s gift policy...
...itself,” Bok notes in his abstract, “the act of accepting a donation does not imply an endorsement of the views or actions of the benefactor...
...bold step in his push for a revised academic calendar yesterday, demanding an audience with the University’s top governing board at its next scheduled meeting on April 30. Petersen’s letter to the members of the Harvard Corporation, which comprises Interim President Derek C. Bok and six Fellows, comes after the UC’s staging of a student referendum on calendar change. “As the FAS community considers the [calendar] proposal in the weeks and days ahead, the Corporation must meet with student representatives...so that the community may move forward...
...Bok said Knowles’ condition appeared to be “under control” on Saturday, only to worsen seriously on Sunday—the day Pilbeam was asked to take over for Knowles—and improve on Monday...
...wait and hope and wish him well,” Bok said of Knowles, who came to Harvard in 1973, two years after Bok first assumed the presidency...