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According to a letter obtained this week, Harvard Alumni Assocation (HAA) officials are prepared to make "more than the usual effort" to ensure that their candidates for the Board of Overseers win over HRAAA's five "dissident" candidates...
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...
...University has traditionally remained neutral in overseer elections. Malkin's letter marks the first campaigning by an HAA affiliate or University official since President Derek C. Bok authorized a mailing endorsing the official slate two years...
During that time, HAA members and other Harvard officials have often crticized the candidacy of what they call "single-issue candidates." Malkin said in an interview yesterday that most of the HRAAA candidates have not proven they are qualified to serve on Harvard's governing boards...