Word: hraaa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HRAAA--which nominates candidates through petition drives--has always relied on highly public media campaigns. They announced this year's slate at a press conference at Bok's Mass Hall front door, and have already mailed letters to some 35,000 alumni...
Whatever the reason, HRAAA succeeded in--if nothing else--goading University and alumni officials into electioneering, something they had hoped...
Still, what significance this victory will have is unclear, considering that many of HRAAA's so-called triumphs have been short-lived...
...After HRAAA candidates won three overseer seats in two years, they came up empty last year. The divestment movement was slowly dying on campus, and HRAAA couldn't stir up the kind of controversy that won seats for Overseers Peter H. Wood '64 and Gay W. Siedman...
...meanwhile taken to nominating famous candidates whose high profiles guaranteed them overseer seats. With Transportation Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole, former Democratic Party Chair Paul G. Kirk '60 and actor John Lithgow '67 on this year's official slate, HRAAA needed somebody like Tutu--a Nobel Peace Prize winner--just to stay alive...