Word: haa
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Members and officers of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) are actively campaigning for their official slate in upcoming Board of Overseers elections, apparently for the first time since a similar letter from a University official provoked controversy three years...
According to a letter written by Peter L. Malkin '55, one of HAA's ten official nominees, HAA wants to insure that "dissident" candidates, including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are not elected to the 30-member alumni governing board. Malkin said he wrote the letter in response to strong campaigning for five independently nominated pro-divestment candidates...
...trying to urge students to consider careers in fields where their help is needed," said Kathleen H. Massimilian, who is a member of the HAA Undergraduate Relations Committee which coordinated the panels...
...There has been a good deal of talk within HAA of increasing alumni's interest in community service," Massimilian said. She said that the committee selected an international theme because of President Bok's 1987 call to internationalize the University...
This is the second year that career discussion panels have been held as part of the winter HAA Directors' Meeting, Massimilian said, although last year's program lacked a central theme. Committee members had worried that this year's international theme "might exclude some people," Massimilian said, but added that she believed the panels attracted a variety of students...