Word: derek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the University initially planned to build a hotel on the Gulf site, President Derek C. Bok this spring announced that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) would be allowed to develop the land for academic purposes. FAS has not announced a plan for the land, but possible alternatives include a library, an office building or a hotel that could be converted for academic...
...Derek isn't someone who opens a newspaper page every day to see how he came across the previous day," says Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50. "He does his job. If that causes him to come across badly, I think he thinks that's part...
...Derek gets his information best by reading, and he knows that," O'Brien says. "He's always been quite a stickler for getting things in writing. That requires a degree of thoughtfulness that is unusual. He doesn't like to handle issues in passing...He must have a deep-seated concern for ever seeming unprepared...
This impatience often expresses itself as a disdain for activist rhetoric, and chants like "Derek Bok, get the word, this is not Johannesburg" only harden the president's resolve not to cave in to outside pressure...
...Derek earns more respect than warmth and affection," O'Brien says. "I've never quite worked around anyone who was as free of gossip. Personalities were never something that fascinated him, as they almost always are in a university...