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Tutu was one of a slate of candidates nominated for the Board of Overseers by Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA). The group has nominated candidates for the past four years in the hopes that the Board, which advises the seven-member Harvard Corporation on University policy, would vote to divest...
...HRAAA Director Robert P. Wolff `54, however, said Tutu would only discuss divestment this weekend if it was already on the agenda, a possibility several overseers said was unlikely...
Alumni Association President Charles J. Egan '54 compared HRAAA's leader to former Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), accusing him of exploiting Bishop Tutu to achieve his own ends. He also said HRAAA's candidates were "second-rate." At one point, Executive Director John P. Reardon '60 reportedly asked attendees of an Alumni Association meeting, "What's to keep them from nominating Fidel Castro next time...
Egan and Reardon's actions last spring shamed the University. They turned the Alumni Association, which ostensibly represents all Harvard alumni, into their own political party. And while HRAAA is by no means innocent, it was the Alumni Association that made the elections the most bitter in recent memory...
...year, Harvard officials quietly pushed through the Young Report, a controversial proposal that gives the University more control over future overseer elections. Under the plan, which will be implemented this year, the University will mail letters to alumni endorsing their official slate of candidates. The plan will also require HRAAA candidates to be listed as a group separately on the ballots, after the University candidates. Previously, they were listed in random order...