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Last December, the Board of Overseers was presented with a proposal from the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) for a memorial. It seemed likely to pass until a last-second barrage of opposition by black student groups caused the Overseers to send the proposal back to the HAA...
...article in the May-June 1995 issue of Harvard Magazine, the magazine solicited comments from alumni on behalf of the HAA, which had formed an ad hoc committee including past HAA presidents and Gomes, to consider the issue...
...that article, Robert N. Shapiro '72, the chair of the HAA committee, stated, "A memorial would be constructed, if at all, only in a spirit of respect and reconciliation, and in dignified recognition of young lives lost...
...Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is exploring the proposed memorial in greater depth, Executive Director John P. Reardon Jr. '60 said yesterday...
...urge that the HAA committee responsible for the Civil War dead proposal be disbanded and that the Board of Overseers kill the proposal outright. Their recommendation glosses over painful but meaningful chapters in American history and is morally bankrupt. The surreptitious actions of this committee are yet another example of the University's attempt to ignore student opinion. This domineering trend should be reversed...