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Walter J. Leonard is special assistant to President Bok and the University's affirmative action officer. He will leave his post at Harvard at the end of this academic year to assume the presidency of Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn...
...Fisk '78, a Music concentrator, said plaintively yesterday that he is taking it because he wanted to understand Walter Cronkite when he talks about the Dow Jones index...
With the departure of Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, to Fisk University, Harvard will bid farewell to its staunchest supporter of affirmative action. In his years at the University, Leonard has set the tone for minority education both here and throughout the country by working toward increasing the number of minorities and women in every area of the University. During his short tenure at the Harvard Law School, from 1969 to 1971, not only did the minority and female enrollment there increase tremendously, but the morale of these students rose accordingly...
...Fisk University is fortunate to have Leonard as its president at a time when private black universities are increasing in importance but struggling to maintain themselves financially. Leonard will bring to Fisk the devotion, spirit and diligence necessary to ensure its continued success...
When Leonard leaves for Fisk, Harvard will lose its staunchest supporter of affirmative action--a man who has spent his years here working with the goal of increasing the number of women and minorities at all levels of the University. His successor will have a difficult time picking up; in the past year, Bok has taken a step away from active support of Leonard, refusing to take a stand against Dean Rosovsky in certain actions when Leonard called for it. But Leonard's outspoken attitude has enabled him to resist even passive attacks of this sort...