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Four alumni have filed a complaint with the state attorney general seeking an investigation of this year's Board of Overseers election. The complaint charges that the University illegally tampered with the election and that University President Derek. C. Bok committed fraud...
...complaint, filed last Wednesday, comes two months after Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 wrote a letter to all alumni cautioning them against voting for a trio of candidates running on a divestment platform. It was the second complaint against Harvard's handling of the overseers contest to reach the attorney general's office...
...This is preliminary to a law suit," said one of the complaint's authors, second-year law student and Harvard Law Review President Adam S. Cohen '84. Cohen said that his group will likely sue Harvard for unfair election practices if the three divestment candidates lose...
...candidates, Kenneth H. Simmons '54, John T. Plotz '69, and Gay W. Seidman '78, all of Berkeley, Calif., said they support the contentionss in the complaint and also plan to take Harvard to court if they lose their bids...
...example, the board has been given emergency powers to suspend temporarily the license of any doctor who appears to pose a clear danger to the public; such a decision may even be made in a telephone conference call among board members. The board is now required to investigate every complaint and has been given the staff and money to do so. The result: disciplinary actions in the state rose from .7 per 1,000 doctors in 1982 to 1.5 per 1,000 last year. Other states that have vastly improved their records include Texas, Florida and Minnesota...