Word: hraaa
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...effort to make its slate more competitive with that of Harvard's official alumni organization, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) officials said yesterday that they plan to nominate only three candidates for this year's Board of Overseers elections...
Overseer Peter H. Wood '62, who was elected to the Board as an HRAAA candidate in 1986, also said he believes yesterday's election results were a direct result of the bylaw revision...
Calling the HRAAA losses "predictable," Wood said rule changes were made to "make it harder for write-in candidates to get elected...
However, that section of the proposal was withdrawn earlier this year following negotiations between Harvard attorneys and HRAAA. Which had threatened to bring the issue to court...
Calling the elections "an illusion of democracy," HRAAA candidate David J. Scondras '68, a Boston city councillor, said the new guidelines only compounded an "institutional inertia" which already made outsiders election to the Board difficult...