Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this weekend's minority alumni reunion, Edward Dawson '81 remembered the time that President Derek C. Bok fled from student activists in a squad car. A discussion about the University's investments in South Africa had turned into an angry crowd, and Bok felt threatened. "Students were so vociferous," Dawson said...
...Dawson also remembers "rallies, demonstrations and intense discussions with visitors." One night, students sat talking to General Motors representatives for "hours and hours" about the company's investment in South Africa, he said...
...Dawson and other alumni attributed the change in part to the fact that more of today's minority students come from suburban and middle- or upper-middle-class families...
...Dawson was struck by the closeness of the minority community in his Harvard years. "When I got here as a freshman in 1977, the things that stuck out most for me were the cohesiveness of the minority community at that time," he said. "It was a very supportive environment...
...moved on," Dawson said, "I began to fill the role that others had filled...