Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against pressures from those "outside" the academy. Both the New York Times and the Boston Globe interpreted this remark as referring to the group of anti-apartheid protesters who blocked the entrance to Memorial Hall on the evening of September 4 and forced the cancellation of a black tie dinner for 300 and more of Harvard's wealthiest contributors. As one of those who locked arms in the doorways that evening, I should like to call attention to the ideologically prescriptive narrowness of Mr. Bok's notion of who is an insider and who is an outsider at Harvard...
Many, if not most of us, that evening were Harvard and Radcliffe graduates, some as recently as last year, others, like myself, from the '50s and even earlier. Those whom we confronted, and who missed out on their dinner that night, were also Harvard and Radcliffe graduates. What divided us was not our relationship to our alma mater, but, our willingness or unwillingness to cooperate in the politically conservative tone and orientation that the current Harvard administration chose to give to its birthday party...
Once these two very different parties confronted each other there was little choice but to cancel the dinner because both groups--especially the dinner guests--were becoming increasingly violent. But there was an option available to the University, before the cancellation became a necessity, which was ignored for the sake of illusion...
...second night of the celebration, about 65 students, alumni and staff blockaded the two Kirkland Street entrances to Memorial Hall. In this 19th century memorial to Harvard students who died fighting for the Union in the Civil War, President Derek C. Bok was planning to hold an anniversary dinner for some of Harvard's most powerful and wealthy graduates. Reporters had been forewarned by the protesters. The plan was that the media would record the arrests of the protesters--arrests that the University would have had to order if it hoped to get its dinner guests into Memorial Hall...
...rest of the country will hear about the goings-on in Grand Rapids. Good Morning, America is moving in. HBO plans a show. Arbor House is scheduling a book. The President's foundation gets the profit from the $500 dinner tickets and $10-to-$25 tickets to the public sessions...