Word: derek
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PERHAPS THIS would not concern anyone if episodes this year did not clearly suggest that the professional administrators have made expediency the end of Harvard policy. Derek Bok nearly sent Harvard interns to all-white South African prep schools and other institutions that bolster apartheid as what administrators called an educational initiative to benefit South Africa's Blacks...
...Boks' letter represents an attempt to tip the election away from the three pro-divestment candidates who gained spots on the ballot by petition and toward their competition, which the University invited to run. Harvard--more accurately Derek Bok--either believes the "Company of Educated Men and Women" need to be told how to exercise their franchise or that Harvard has failed in its educational mission...
...LATTER is true, then the University should consider a thorough revamping. But if that's not so, and the letter is just an example of the administration's concern that alumni can't vote without someone to tell them which lever to pull, then Derek Bok needs to be instructed of his error. Maybe then such paternalistic, unilateral decision-making will be avoided in the future...
...will be announced at Commencement can begin taking a constructive role here. They have a clear opportunity to serve their alma mater as more than marks in the credits column of some future fundraising drive. If they care for Harvard enough to hate its injustices, they must publicly condemn Derek Bok's action...
Campus politics more or less follows the intellectual patterns established in the classroom, albeit in a slightly perverse fashion. It seems that those most opposed to Derek Bok & Co. know them the best; after all, what is an administrator without a crisis to administrate? As long as the bounds of acceptable conduct are adhered to, the occasional political protests or marches serve to show the idealism of Harvard youth--and feed the self-importance of University Hall...