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...Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominated eight candidates last week, including a U.S. senator and a Boston College law professor. Last winter, the group reduced its number of candidates from 10 to eight in a move that several HRAAA officials said was intended to place the alternative candidates at a disadvantage...
Since alumni can only vote for five candidates, HRAAA officials said, the votes for HAA candidates will be divided between fewer candidates, providing more concentrated support for Alumni Association nominees. Under last year's new plan, the pro-divestment HRAAA failed to win any seats on the governing board...
...HRAAA officials said they hope that by nominating fewer candi- dates this year--three instead of five--they can counteract the Alumni Association's strategy...
Donald M. Solomon, executive director of HRAAA, said that "quality and not quantity" was the most important factor in their choice of candidates, but he added that HRAAA had certainly considered the fact that "the mathematical odds do favor a smaller slate...
...HRAAA's candidates, whose names will be submitted officially by petition next week, are: The Reverend F. Forrester Church '74, senior minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in New York City; fourth-year law student Barack H. Obama, who is president of the Harvard Law Review; and Nadine Strossen '72, president of the American Civil Liberties Union...