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Nearly 26 years ago, University President Derek C. Bok wrote that “any policy that encourages the University to engage in boycotts...will have grave disadvantages for the institution.” Yet several events in the past year, including Harvard’s selling its shares of PetroChina, Michigan’s termination of its contract with Coca-Cola, and Stanford’s, Yale’s, and Amherst’s divestment from all companies doing business in Sudan, indicate that this debate is anything but a closed case. And divestment remains in the news?...
...that companies like PetroChina, Sinopec, Unocal that either indirectly facilitate or are directly complicit in grave human rights abuses remain in Harvard’s portfolio. Fortunately, last year the University agreed that Harvard must ensure that its money is not used to facilitate morally bankrupt activity. Citing President Derek C. Bok’s precedent that divestment is reasonable in “exceptional circumstances,” the Corporation decided to divest from PetroChina...
...teaches Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and its Presidents”. Even this closure occurred only after the Massachusetts governor declared a state of emergency, brought in the national guard, and restricted any unnecessary travel. After the blizzard hit, many people asked then University President Derek C. Bok why he did not immediately shut the University down. According to Gomes, Bok responded, “I tried to, but I didn’t know how.” The storm, which The Crimson reported brought ninety-two miles per hour gusts of wind and dumped over...
...Bill Clinton at a 1993 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting two weeks after taking office, and Martin's credentials as Finance Minister helped finesse his first trip as PM, to a 2004 meeting of leaders in Monterrey, Mexico. "Foreign policy was not among Harper's top five priorities," concedes Derek Burney, who heads the transition team...
...last week, “but there is a long history.” While past presidents have consulted with professors and Corporation members to varying degrees in the selection process, Rosovsky said, “the deans who head faculties are chosen by the president.”Derek C. Bok, who led the University from 1971 to 1991, consulted informally with professors on dean appointments. And Bok’s successor, Neil L. Rudenstine, “set up committees to seek the wisdom of the faculty,” according to Rosovsky, who also served...