Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the summer, S. Allen Counter, associate professor of Neuroscience at the Medical School, was named the first director of the Harvard Foundation. He will operate out of an office in University Hall under the auspices of Dean Fox. The Foundation's governance structure will have three components under Counter...
...student committee will be formed early this fall, and the Faculty committee has not yet met. So far, Counter has asked author Alex Haley, conductor Seiji Ozawa, and United Nations treasurer Rivington Winant to serve as associates...
...said at the time of Counter's appointment this summer that while there had been "some ambivalence" about the Foundation in several areas of the University, he "wouldn't be too pessimistic" about the Foundation's chances for success...
...Counter has been out of town and was unavailable for comment, but he told the Harvard Gazette this summer that he opposed the idea of a Third World center. The activities of the Foundation, he said, "should not exclude the majority students because it seems to me that our ultimate goal is to get the majority students to recognize the presence and achievements and basic sameness of all students here...
...Counter has pledged to work vigorously on the Foundation's behalf. But he opposes the idea of a physical facility for the Foundation. He said a cultural center could come to be known as "'That Third World building.' I don't want a place that majority students would feel uncomfortable coming into." One of the basic demands of students who set in motion the Foundation's evolution was a building with office space for campus minority organizations and a large meeting room. The groups trying to obtain building space will no longer do so through the Foundation, but Third World...